All technical or oil and gas industry words or phrases used herein and not specifically defined in this chapter shall have that meaning customarily attributable thereto by prudent operators of the oil and gas industry.
As used in this chapter, the following words and terms shall have the scope and meanings hereafter defined and set out in connection with each, and this scope and meanings shall apply wherever and whenever used:
ABANDONED WELL: Any natural production well in which production casing has been run but which has not been operated for six (6) months; the term shall also mean any well in which no production casing has been run, and for which drilling operations have ceased for thirty (30) consecutive days, or which has otherwise not been developed or operated with due diligence.
COMPLETION PROCESS: Any operations conducted after the setting and cementing of the casing and after notification thereof in writing given to the City building official or his designee.
CORPORATION COMMISSION: The Oklahoma Corporation Commission.
DELETERIOUS SUBSTANCE: Any chemical, saltwater, oil field brine, waste oil, waste emulsified oil, basic sediment, fresh water drilling fluids, or injurious substances produced or used in the drilling, development, production, transportation, refining, or processing of oil, gas or condensate, and all substances used in the completion process.
DEVELOPED AREA: Any area within the corporate limits of the City and designated with a zoning classification other than A Agricultural, I-1 Planned Industrial Park, I-2 Industrial (Light), or I-3 Industrial (Heavy).
DRILLING PROCESS: Any operations from the beginning of operations until the beginning of the completion process.
ENHANCED PRODUCTION: Any secondary or tertiary operation by which potable or treated water is introduced into a source of supply for the purpose of stimulating recovery therefrom.
INSPECTOR: Any person designated by the City Manager to make inspections provided for in this chapter, whether or not other duties are additionally assigned.
LEASE: Any tract of land subject to an oil, gas or mineral lease or other oil and gas development contract, or any unit composed of several tracts and leases but operated as a single lease; and any tract of land in which the minerals are owned by an operator or someone holding under him, which, due to the royalty ownership, is developed as a separate tract.
MUD PROGRAM: The planned usage of drilling fluid lubricants (also known in the industry as "mud"), specifying with particularity the type, names, physical and chemical composition, and the characteristics of all ingredients thereof, together with such laboratory and other technical data as may be necessary or required by the City to evaluate the same as a potential source of pollution.
NATURAL PRODUCTION: The raising of petroleum and/or natural gas to the surface of the earth by natural flow.
NONDELETERIOUS SUBSTANCE: Only nontoxic and nonpolluting water based drilling fluids and solids.
PERMITTEE: The person to whom is issued a permit under the terms of this chapter.
PERSON: Shall include both the singular and plural; and shall also mean and include any individual, firm, partnership, association, corporation, club, society, cooperative, trust, municipal corporation, or political subdivision regardless of form. When and after activity or omission is forbidden to a person, that activity or omission is forbidden whether the person is acting for himself or for another, and whether the activity or omission is performed directly or through an agent, servant, employee, subcontractor, or independent contractor.
POLLUTION: The contamination or other alteration of the physical, chemical, or biological properties of any natural waters of the City or lands within the City; or such discharge of any liquid, gaseous, or solid substance into any water of the City or upon any lands within the City as will or is likely to create a nuisance or render such waters or such lands harmful or detrimental to public health, safety or welfare; or which will render such waters or such lands harmful or detrimental to domestic, commercial, industrial, agricultural, recreational, or other beneficial uses; or which will render such waters or such lands harmful or detrimental to livestock, animals, or aquatic life.
WATER OR WATER OF THE CITY: All streams, lakes, ponds, marshes, watercourses, waterways, wells, springs, irrigation systems, and all other bodies or accumulations of water whether on the surface or underground, whether natural or artificial, whether publicly or privately owned or maintained, and which are either contained within, flow through, or border upon the City or any portion thereof.
WELL: Shall include and mean any hole or holes, bore or bores, to any sand, formation, strata, or depth for the purpose of producing and recovering any petroleum, oil, gaseous liquid hydrocarbon, or any other liquefied matter or gaseous matter. (1994 Code § 23.5-3)