(a) “Person” includes any individual, firm, partnership, association, corporation, or cooperative.

(b) “Well” means and includes any hole or holes, bore or bores, to any sand, formation, strata, or depth for the purpose of producing and recovering any oil, gas liquid hydrocarbon, or any of them.

(c) “Permittee” means the person to whom is issued a permit for the drilling and operation of a well under this chapter, and his or her or its administrators, executors, heirs, successors, and assigns.

(d) All technical or oil and gas industry words or phrases used herein and not specifically defined herein shall have that meaning customarily attributable thereto by prudent operators in the oil and gas industry.

(e) “Lease,” as that term is used herein, means any tract of land subject to an oil, gas and mineral lease, or other oil and gas development contract, or any unit composed of several tracts and leases but operated as one lease, and any tract of land in which the minerals are owned by an operator or someone holding under it or him or her, but which, due to the free royalty ownership is developed and operated as a separate tract.