(Published in the McAlester News-Capital on November 20th, 2016.) BEFORE THE CORPORATION COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA APPLICANT: BP AMERICA PRODUCTION COMPANY RELIEF SOUGHT: POOLING LEGAL DESCRIPTION: Section 18, Township 3 North, Range 12 East of the IM, Pittsburg County, Oklahoma Cause CD No. 201605389 NOTICE OF HEARING STATE OF OKLAHOMA TO: All persons, owners, producers, operators, purchasers and takers of oil and gas, and all other interested persons, particularly in Pittsburg County, Oklahoma, including the following: Elizabeth Anne Railey Cook; Joy Lee Railey; National Production Corporation; National Production Corporation, and Farmers National Co., as Agent; Payton Family Living Trust, and Charles Arlie Payton as Co-Trustee of such Trust; Payton Family Living Trust, and Malacha Railey Morel Payton as Co-Trustee of such Trust; Rhoades Oil Company; Sharon Rene Railey Harris; Terminal Land Company; Evalyn Corlett Drummond; The Irvin A. Gladstein Trust u/a/d November 18, 1987, and Mark Gladstein as Successor Trustee of such Trust; The Irvin A. Gladstein Trust u/a/d November 18, 1987, and Margaret Gladstein as Successor Trustee of such Trust; Kenneth Ellsworth Beall, Jr. Trust, and Kenneth Ellsworth Beall, Jr., as Trustee of such Trust; NRC-MMX, Ltd.; Rachel Burnette; Ronnie Charles Knight; Sharon Kay Barnett; Bravo Arkoma, LLC; Cimarex Energy Company; CoLa Resources, LLC; England Resources Corporation; Joseph J. Morelli; Princeton Energy, LLC; Vanguard Permian, LLC; XTO Energy, Inc.; if any of the above-named individuals be deceased, then the unknown heirs, executors, administrators, devisees, trustees and assigns, both immediate and remote, of such deceased individual; if any of the above-named parties is a dissolved partnership, corporation or other association, then the unknown successors, trustees and assigns, both immediate and remote, of such dissolved entity; if any of the above-named parties designated as a trustee is not presently acting in such capacity as trustee, then the unknown successor or successors to such trustee; and if any of the above-named parties designated as an agent is not presently acting in such capacity as agent, then the unknown successor or successors to such agent. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Applicant, BP America Production Company, has filed an application in this cause requesting the Corporation Commission of Oklahoma to enter an order pooling the interests of oil and gas owners, and adjudicating the rights and equities in connection therewith, in the 640-acre non-horizontal drilling and spacing formed in Section 18, Township 3 North, Range 12 East of the IM, Pittsburg County, Oklahoma, for the Hunton common source of supply, and in the 640-acre horizontal well unit to be formed in said Section 18 for the Sylvan common source of supply, in respect to the development of such separate common sources of supply in such units. The interests of the oil and gas owners involved herein and the rights and equities in respect thereto are sought herein to be pooled and adjudicated pursuant to 52 O.S. §87.1 within and on the basis of the units covered hereby as a group or unit or in the aggregate, and not limited to a single wellbore. The application in this cause states that Applicant has drilled and completed the Bowen No. 3-18/7H Well as a multiunit horizontal well in the 640-acre non-horizontal drilling and spacing units formed for the Woodford and Hunton separate common sources of supply in said Section 18, and in the 640-acre horizontal well unit to be formed for the Sylvan common source of supply in said Section 18, and that the portions of the completion interval of such well in the 640-acre non-horizontal drilling and spacing unit formed for the Hunton common source of supply in said Section 18 and in the 640-acre horizontal well unit to be formed for the Sylvan common source of supply in such section shall constitute the initial well under the pooling order to be entered in this matter. Such application further states that Applicant, as operator of the Bowen No. 3-18/7H Well, has been unable to reach an agreement with the owners of drilling rights named as respondents herein concerning such well and how the units involved in this cause would otherwise be developed. Such application further states that there is currently pending before the Commission in Cause CD No. 201602897 an application of Applicant to form a 640-acre horizontal well unit in said Section 18 for the Sylvan common source of supply and that the Commission has previously formed a 640-acre non-horizontal drilling and spacing unit in said Section 18 for the Hunton common source of supply. NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the application in this cause requests that BP America Production Company, or some other party recommended by Applicant, be designated as operator under the order to be entered herein of the separate common sources of supply in the units covered hereby, including of the Bown No. 3-18/7H Well and of any subsequent well or wells to be drilled under or otherwise covered by such order. NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that this cause is set before an administrative law judge for hearing, taking of evidence and reporting to the Corporation Commission of Oklahoma. Notice is further given that the application in this cause may be amended at such hearing in accordance with the rules of the Commission and the laws of the State of Oklahoma. NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that this cause will be heard before an administrative law judge on the Conservation Docket at the Western Regional Service Office of the Corporation Commission, Jim Thorpe Building, 2101 North Lincoln Boulevard, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, at 8:30 A.M. on the 6th day of December, 2016, and that this notice be published as required by law and the rules of the Commission. NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that Applicant and interested parties may present testimony by telephone. The cost of telephonic communication shall be paid by the person or persons requesting its use. Interested parties who wish to participate by telephone shall contact Applicant or Applicant's attorney, prior to the hearing date, and provide their names and telephone numbers. NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that all interested persons may appear and be heard. For information concerning this action, contact John R. Reeves, attorney, OBA #7479, Seventeenth Floor, One Leadership Square, 211 North Robinson Avenue, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73102, Telephone: (405) 272-5742; or Pushpa Nellikkattil, BP America Production Company, 737 North Eldridge Parkway, Houston, Texas 77079, Telephone: (832) 619-7291. CORPORATION COMMISSION OF OKLAHOMA /S/BOB ANTHONY, Chairman /S/DANA. L. MURPHY, Vice Chairman /S/J. TODD HIETT, Commissioner DONE AND PERFORMED this 17th day of November , 2016. BY ORDER OF THE COMMISSION: /S/PEGGY MITCHELL, Commission Secretary
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