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Gas Line Repair in Oklahoma
Across the 39 Oklahoma towns we route calls in, 57% of households are on mains gas and 4% on bottled or tank propane. Those are two different arrangements with two different answers about who owns the pipe.
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Across the 39 Oklahoma towns covered here, 57% of households are on mains gas and 4% on bottled or tank propane. On mains gas the utility's regulated line ends at the meter outlet; a propane tank has no such boundary.
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey table B25040; the service line boundary is 49 CFR § 192.3.
If you smell gas right now
Leave the building on foot. Do not use a phone or a light switch inside. Call 911 and your gas utility from somewhere else — not us. The full list, in order.
How Oklahoma is supplied
| Households in Oklahoma | Share | Homes |
|---|---|---|
| Utility (mains) gas | 57% | 241,131 |
| Bottled or tank propane | 4% | 15,992 |
Weighted across 422,742 occupied homes. The spread inside the state is the point: Jenks is highest on mains at 75%, and Keota has the largest propane share at 25%. A state figure describes neither.
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B25040 (house heating fuel), 2023 release. B25040 records what heats the house, which is the best available guide to whether a property has mains gas or a tank — it does not count service lines directly.
The two arrangements, and why the difference is not cosmetic
Of the 39 towns we route in here, 14 are mostly on mains gas, 7 have a substantial propane share, 18 are split between the two and 0 use very little gas of any kind.
On a mains connection, 49 CFR § 192.3 ends the regulated service line at "the outlet of the customer meter or at the connection to a customer’s piping, whichever is further downstream" — so part of the system is the operator’s. On propane there is no service line and no meter boundary, and the whole installation is the property owner’s.
Source: 49 CFR § 192.3, via PHMSA interpretation PI-12-0003.
Before anyone digs, anywhere in Oklahoma
PHMSA describes excavation damage as the leading cause of pipeline incidents, and puts a caller’s chance of avoiding one at 99 percent. 8-1-1 is nationwide, toll-free and free to use. Ask what they will and will not mark — privately owned buried line frequently is not.
Source: PHMSA, 811 Day.
Checking a plumber in Oklahoma
Oklahoma licenses are issued by the Oklahoma Construction Industries Board, which publishes a public search you can use before work begins.
Gas work is separately permitted and separately licensed in most jurisdictions, so ask specifically about gas rather than plumbing in general.
Towns we route in Oklahoma
- Bixby 72% mains · 3% propane
- Broken Arrow 72% mains · 2% propane
- Cameron 14% mains · 8% propane
- Catoosa 50% mains · 8% propane
- Claremore 57% mains · 8% propane
- Collinsville 67% mains · 6% propane
- Coweta 49% mains · 9% propane
- Fort Gibson 44% mains · 7% propane
- Gans 25% mains · 10% propane
- Glenpool 75% mains · 1% propane
- Heavener 22% mains · 15% propane
- Howe 18% mains · 17% propane
- Hulbert 20% mains · 20% propane
- Inola 31% mains · 21% propane
- Jenks 75% mains · 1% propane
- Kellyville 22% mains · 20% propane
- Keota 30% mains · 25% propane
- Kiefer 51% mains · 2% propane
- Mounds 32% mains · 12% propane
- Muldrow 16% mains · 8% propane
- Muskogee 39% mains · 4% propane
- Oologah 28% mains · 23% propane
- Owasso 69% mains · 1% propane
- Park Hill 27% mains · 9% propane
- Pocola 41% mains · 2% propane
- Poteau 41% mains · 4% propane
- Pryor 39% mains · 9% propane
- Ramona 42% mains · 12% propane
- Roland 30% mains · 2% propane
- Sallisaw 24% mains · 8% propane
- Sand Springs 62% mains · 9% propane
- Sapulpa 56% mains · 5% propane
- Shady Point 32% mains · 11% propane
- Skiatook 44% mains · 15% propane
- Sperry 40% mains · 14% propane
- Spiro 35% mains · 5% propane
- Tahlequah 42% mains · 5% propane
- Tulsa 59% mains · 1% propane
- Wagoner 58% mains · 6% propane
For repair work, not for a suspected leak.If you can smell gas, leave and call 911 or your utility from outside; this is the wrong number for that. For everything else — a line, a meter, an appliance connection — we will route you to a contractor covering your area, free of charge to you. Gas work heads this site; other plumbing is handled too.
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