Okla. Stat. tit. 27A, § 3-5-102 Definitions

• Library: Oklahoma Statutes
• Edition: 2023
• Currency: Current through Laws 2023EX1, c. 52.
• Year: 2023
• Citation: Okla. Stat. tit. 27A, § 3-5-102

As used in the Oklahoma Carbon Capture and Geologic Sequestration Act:

1. "Agency" means the Corporation Commission or the Department of Environmental Quality, as the case may be and as described in Section 3-5-103 of this title;

2. "Anthropogenic carbon dioxide" or "man-made carbon dioxide" means the carbon dioxide compound manufactured, mechanically formed or otherwise caused to occur, as a result of either:

a. a chemical process performed by or involving efforts of a person, or

b. separation of carbon dioxide from natural gas.

The term shall not include carbon dioxide that is naturally present in underground locations;

3. "Approved reservoir" means a reservoir that is determined by the Agency with jurisdiction to be suitable for the receipt, storage and/or sequestration of injected carbon dioxide therein;

4. "Carbon dioxide" or "CO2" means an inorganic compound containing one carbon atom and two oxygen atoms, and exists as a gas at standard temperature and pressure. Carbon dioxide is an inert, stable, colorless, odorless, nontoxic, incombustible, inorganic gas that is dissolvable in water and is naturally present, such as in underground locations and in the atmosphere as a trace gas;

5. "Carbon sequestration" means long-term or short-term underground storage or sequestration of anthropogenic carbon dioxide in one or more reservoirs;

6. "CO2 injection well" means an artificial excavation or opening in the ground made by digging, boring, drilling, jetting, driving, or another method and is used to inject or transmit anthropogenic carbon dioxide into one or more reservoirs;

7. "CO2 capture and compression equipment" means the equipment, separation units, processing units, processing plants, pipe, buildings, pumps, compressors, meters, facilities, motors, fixtures, materials, and machinery, and all other improvements used in the operation of any of them, and property, real or personal, intangible or tangible, either attributable to or relating to, or located thereon, used for the purpose of:

a. capturing carbon dioxide from a source that produces anthropogenic carbon dioxide, and/or

b. compressing or otherwise increasing the pressure of anthropogenic carbon dioxide;

8. "CO2 pipeline" means any pipeline, compressors, pumps, meters, facilities, valves, fittings, right-of-way markers, cathodic protection ground beds, anodes, rectifiers, and any other cathodic protection devices, and other associated equipment, appurtenances and fixtures located on, attributable to or used in connection with the same, and used for the purpose of transporting carbon dioxide for carbon sequestration in this state or another state, excluding: