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288:. It now has 31 member states, 7 associate states and 10 international affiliates (including 7 Canadian provinces and territories). The governor of each member state appoints an official representative who can vote on policy recommendations, and any number of associate representatives who can vote in their place if the official representative is not available. The list of members can be found on the IOGCC website. Many representatives are state regulators overseeing gas and drilling, but as of 2010 at least seven were industry executives and lobbyists. The commission meets biannually, but much of its work occurs in small committee meetings throughout the year. To govern operations, it has steering, finance, resolutions and nominating committees. Other committees are Energy Resources, Research and Technology; Environment and Safety; International; Public Lands; Public Outreach; and State Review. 246: 174:, which states that the owner of land on which a well resides has the right to any oil from that well even if it was drained from the land of his neighbors. This provided an incentive for each land owner to extract the oil as fast as possible. Each state tried to regulate its own oil by such measures as proration, the limiting of production to some fraction of capacity; but then two great oil fields, the 204:
occupied wells in Oklahoma and Texas in 1931–1932, an Oil States Advisory Committee drafted the Thomas-McKeon Bill, which proposed an interstate oil compact and a Federal Interstate Oil Board to recommend quotas. However, the bill was abandoned after oil industry representatives withdrew their
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To identify best practices, IOGCC surveys member states and assesses their activities. It catalogues innovative programs and shares the information with states, and it hosts biannual meetings that draw together representatives from the government, the oil industry and environmentalists. IOGCC is an
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met with the governors of Kansas and Texas to discuss an interstate compact. This led to the drafting of the Interstate Compact to Conserve Oil and Gas, which was ratified by Congress on August 27, 1935. At first, Congress ratified it for only two years at a time, then four years, and finally the
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The IOGCC is governed by the compact and several bylaws. The compact did not provide for any resources to support IOGCC; a later bylaw stipulated that its expenses would be paid "from voluntary contributions from the member states and other sources of revenue approved by the Commission". These
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The stated purpose of the compact was "conserve oil and gas by the prevention of physical waste thereof from any cause". States that ratified the compact agreed to enact legislation for this purpose. Article VI of the compact constituted "The Interstate Oil Compact Commission," renamed as the
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before it enters the atmosphere and sequester it by injecting underground in depleted oil and natural gas fields, saline formations and coal beds. Recognizing that the oil and gas industry has a lot of experience with injecting
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advocate for states' rights, arguing that state regulation is more effective than "one size fits all" federal regulation. As well as creating reports, it creates model statutes as a guide for legislation by states.
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and does not have to register to lobby the federal government. A plethora of information is available but relatively little of it has come directly from the organization itself. IOGCC claims an exemption from the
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sources, which include federal grants, have proved to be enough to allow the commission to function. IOGCC uses an Oklahoma government email address and domain but it is not a state, not a
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cartel. According to the legal scholar Blakely Murphy, the commission operated under the guise of resource conservation but primarily existed to protect the interests of oil producers.
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The highest honor, established in 2001, is the Chairman's Stewardship Award for exemplary efforts in environmental stewardship. This award has four categories:
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The Warwick Downing Award, established in 2005, recognizes an individual outside state governments who has made an outstanding contribution to the IOGCC.
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and the Petroleum Code, which in effect left production control in the hands of industry representatives, with no representation for the states. The
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found these regulations unconstitutional in 1935, and the idea of an interstate compact was revived. On December 3, 1934, Oklahoma Governor-elect
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Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission in 1991, and its duty was to make recommendations for preventing the physical waste of gas and oil.
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Administrative Mechanism of the Interstate Compact to Conserve Oil and Gas: The Interstate Oil Compact Commission, 1935-1948
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was seen as an alternative to direct federal regulation that would allow oil producing states to retain more control.
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resources are conserved and utilized to their maximum potential while protecting health, safety and the environment.
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Some economic historians have described the regulation of oil output under the compact as an example of a
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The Interstate Compact to Conserve Oil and Gas: An Experiment in Co-Operative State Production Control.
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and has removed a provision within its by-laws that formerly said its records are open to the public.
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in 2002 to investigate the issues surrounding sequestration. A two-phase study was funded by the
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Promote efficient harvesting of oil and gas while protecting health, safety and the environment.
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The evolving use and the changing role of interstate compacts : a practitioner's guide
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United States Oil Policy, 1890–1964: Business and Government in Twentieth Century America
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The E. W. Marland Award, established in 1994, recognizes an outstanding state legislator.
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Huffington Post: IOGCC: The Most Powerful Oil and Gas Lobby You’ve Never Heard Of
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Joint resolution consenting to an interstate oil compact to conserve oil and gas
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Energy Wire: Hydraulic Fracturing - Public disclosure database kept private
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How cartels endure and how they fail: studies of industrial collusion
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Finders keepers? how the law of capture shaped the world oil industry
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Interstate cooperation : compacts and administrative agreements
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In the early days of oil exploration, drilling was governed by the
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DESMOG: Introducing IOGCC: The Most Powerful Oil and Gas Lobby
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support. From 1933 to 1935, oil was regulated under the
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In the 1930s and 1940s, the commission functioned as a
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have been cited as precursors to the establishment of
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cartel. The production controls of the IOGCC and the
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Interstate compact
Oklahoma City
Mark Gordon
https://oklahoma.gov/iogcc.html
United States
governors
states
oil
natural gas
law of capture
Oklahoma City Oil Field
East Texas Oil Field
Great Depression
interstate compact
National Guard
National Industrial Recovery Act
Supreme Court
E. W. Marland
price fixing
Texas Railroad Commission
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