Terms Used In South Carolina Code 48-43-20

• Gas: means all natural gas and all other fluid hydrocarbons not hereinabove defined as oil, including condensate because it originally was in the gaseous phase in the reservoir. See South Carolina Code 48-43-10
• Oil: means crude petroleum oil and all other hydrocarbons, regardless of gravity, that are produced in liquid form by ordinary production methods, but does not include liquid hydrocarbons that were originally in a gaseous phase in the reservoir. See South Carolina Code 48-43-10
• Pollution: means the act of emitting pollutants into the air or water or onto the land. See South Carolina Code 48-43-10
• Waste: means and includes:
  
  (1) physical waste, as that term is generally understood in the oil and gas industry;
  
  (2) the inefficient, excessive, or improper use, or the unnecessary dissipation of, reservoir energy;
  
  (3) the inefficient storing of oil and gas;
  
  (4) the locating, drilling, equipping, operating, or producing of any oil or gas well in a manner that causes, or tends to cause, reduction in the quantity of oil or gas ultimately recoverable from a pool under prudent and proper operations, or that causes or tends to cause unnecessary or excessive surface loss or destruction or oil or gas;
  
  (5) the production of oil or gas in excess of
  
  (a) transportation or marketing facilities;
  
  (b) the amount reasonably required to be produced in the proper drilling, completing or testing of the well from which it is produced; or
  
  (c) oil or gas otherwise usefully utilized but gas produced from an oil well or condensate well pending the time when, with reasonable diligence, the gas can be sold or otherwise usefully utilized on terms and conditions that are just and reasonable shall not be considered waste if the production of such gas has been approved by order of the department;
  
  (6) underground or above ground waste in the production or storage of oil, gas, or condensate, however caused, and whether or not defined in other subdivisions hereof. See South Carolina Code 48-43-10