(Published in the McAlester News-Capital on March 3rd, 2017.) BEFORE THE CORPORATION COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA APPLICANT: BP AMERICA PRODUCTION COMPANY RELIEF SOUGHT: POOLING LEGAL DESCRIPTION: Section 19, Township 6 North, Range 13 East of the IM, Pittsburg County, Oklahoma Cause CD No. 201701294 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: Angela Cecilia Bruno; Anglin Properties Irrevocable Living Trust dated July 26, 1976, and Leann Leach, s/p/a Belva Leann Leach, as Successor Trustee of such Trust; Irrevocable Living Trust with Belva Anglin, Settlor, a/k/a the Anglin Properties Trust, and Carol J. Morgan as Trustee of such Trust; Belva Leann Leach; Carol June Morgan; Charles W. Leo; Cindy Epps; Dawn Moon; Doris Bagley Walker, a/k/a Doris B. Walker; Doss Oil Royalty Company; Elizabeth A. Neill Pruitt; Eric P. Warn; Eugenia S. Duff; Ferrelloil Co., LLC; Fred Lee Simpson; Fred M. Rogers, Deceased; Gloria Shields; Grant Moore, Deceased; Jernda Lawrence; Judith E. Cerney; Keith R. Carpenter; Lee Whitfield McMorries, IV; M.L. Henry, Jr., a/k/a Millard Lafayette Henry, Jr.; MAP2004-OK; MAP2006-OK; Mardi A. Epps; Marilyn J. Pettit Greer; Michael O. Duff; Muirfield Resources Company; Nancy Lou Holmberg; PEC Minerals LP; Pettit Revocable Trust dated March 24, 1997, and Joseph Ray Pettit as Trustee of such Trust; The Quentin Mantooth No. 1 Trust, and the Trustee of such Trust; Sally N. Carpenter, a/k/a Sallye N. Carpenter, Deceased; Shawn C. MacDuff; Shirley S. McBee Revocable Trust, dated August 21, 2009, and Shirley S. McBee, as Trustee of such trust; Stephanie Barlow; Stevenson Trust Estate, and Michael Allen Kirkpatrick as Trustee; Tamsen Pearsall-Blank; Walter H. Mantooth; Fred Lee Simpson; Barbara Husted, a/k/a Barbara Jean Husted and Barbara J. Collins and Barbara Jean Collins, Deceased; Betty Stevens, a/k/a Betty Jean Stevens and Betty Jean Earnest Stevens; Bud Earnest, Deceased; James Earnest; Claud Carpenter, Deceased; Donna J. Porria; Ella Earnest, Deceased; Francis W. Collins; Glen Ray Husted; Gwen Carpenter Schwartz 1985 Trust Under Declaration of Trust dated September 25, 1985, and Gwendolyn Schwartz as Trustee of such Trust; Gwen Carpenter Schwartz 1985 Trust Under Declaration of Trust dated September 25, 1985, and Harold J. Schwartz as Successor Trustee of such Trust; Gwendolyn E. Carpenter, a/k/a Gwendolyn Schwartz a/k/a Gwendolyn Elaine Schwartz; Harold E. Earnest, Deceased; Henry J. Schwartz; James R. Earnest, a/k/a J.R. Earnest; Michael Ann Husted; Orville L. Carpenter; Richard A. Earnest; Rowena Yorba Earnest; Shirley Ann Mohler; Gertrude Henson; William R. Henson; Lottie N. Rogers, Deceased; Gary Neill Burks, Deceased; Fritz Neill, Deceased; Charles M. Ervin; William J. Ervin; Philip Duff, Deceased; Nancy Epps McGeorge, Deceased; 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; and 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. 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, and adjudicating the rights and equities in connection therewith, of oil and gas owners in the 640-acre drilling and spacing units formed in Section 19, Township 6 North, Range 13 East of the IM, Pittsburg County, Oklahoma, for the Caney, Mayes, Woodford, Hunton and Sylvan separate common sources 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 proposed the development of the separate common sources of supply in the units involved herein under a plan of development and has proposed to commence such plan of development of such units by an initial well in the lands covered hereby. Such application further states that Applicant has been unable to reach an agreement with the owners of drilling rights named as respondents herein with respect to such proposed plan of development of the separate common sources of supply in the units covered hereby. Such application further requests up to 365 days within which to commence operations on or in connection with such initial well under such plan of development. 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 the initial well and any subsequent well or wells to be drilled under or otherwise covered by Applicant's proposed plan of development of such units. 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 21st day of March, 2017, 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/DANA. L. MURPHY, Chairman /S/J. TODD HIETT, Vice Chairman /S/BOB ANTHONY, Commissioner DONE AND PERFORMED this 27th day of February , 2017. BY ORDER OF THE COMMISSION: /S/PEGGY MITCHELL, Commission Secretary
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