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(Published in the McAlester News-Capital on July 20th, 2017.) BEFORE THE CORPORATION COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA APPLICANT: TRINITY OPERATING (USG), LLC RELIEF SOUGHT: WELL LOCATION EXCEPTION (PART OF A MULTIUNIT HORIZONTAL WELL) LEGAL DESCRIPTION: SECTIONS 5 AND 8, TOWNSHIP 7 NORTH, RANGE 18 EAST, PITTSBURG COUNTY, OKLAHOMA CAUSE CD NO. 201704597-T NOTICE OF HEARING TO ALL PERSONS, OWNERS, PRODUCERS, OPERATORS, PURCHASERS AND TAKERS OF OIL AND GAS and all persons if living or if deceased, their known and unknown successors and all corporations existing, and if dissolved, its known and unknown successors and all persons having an interest in the lands covered hereby, particularly in Pittsburg County, Oklahoma. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Applicant, Trinity Operating (USG), LLC has filed an application in this cause requesting the Corporation Commission of Oklahoma to enter an order, to be effective as of the date of the execution thereof or as of a date prior thereto, as follows: (i) authorizing and permitting an exception to the permitted well location tolerances in the 640-acre horizontal drilling and spacing units formed in Sections 5 and 8, Township 7 North, Range 18 East, Pittsburg County, Oklahoma for the Mississippian, Woodford and Hunton common sources of supply so as to allow, in part, a well, being a proposed multiunit horizontal well, to be drilled. NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN Applicant requests that Order No. 665456 be amended to permit a well to be drilled and produced at the following location: LOCATION OF WELLBORE (LATERAL) AT SECTION 8 COMPLETION INTERVAL: THE PROPOSED LOCATION OF THE END POINTS OF THE COMPLETION INTERVAL WILL BE NO CLOSER THAN 0 FEET FROM THE NORTH LINE AND NO CLOSER THAN 165 FEET FROM THE SOUTH LINE AND NO CLOSER THAN 2,400 FEET FROM THE EAST LINE OF SECTION 8, TOWNSHIP 7 NORTH, RANGE 18 EAST, PITTSBURG COUNTY, OKLAHOMA LOCATION OF WELLBORE (LATERAL) AT SECTION 5 COMPLETION INTERVAL: THE PROPOSED LOCATION OF THE END POINTS OF THE COMPLETION INTERVAL WILL BE NO CLOSER THAN 0 FEET FROM THE SOUTH LINE AND NO CLOSER THAN 165 FEET FROM THE NORTH LINE AND NO CLOSER THAN 2,400 FEET FROM THE EAST LINE OF SECTION 5, TOWNSHIP 7 NORTH, RANGE 18 EAST, PITTSBURG COUNTY, OKLAHOMA That the entire length of the lateral will be cemented such that the perforations will be isolated from the beginning and end point of the lateral. That Order No. 665456 established a 640-acre horizontal drilling and spacing unit for the Mississippian, Woodford and Hunton common source of supply underlying Sections 5 and 8, Township 7 North, Range 18 East, Pittsburg County, Oklahoma. For the Mississippian and Hunton common sources of supply such order shall require that the completion interval of a horizontal well drilled in a horizontal well unit shall be located not less than 660 feet from the unit boundary. For the Woodford common source of supply such order shall require the completion interval of a horizontal well drilled in a horizontal well unit shall be located not less than 165 feet from any north/south unit boundary and not less than 330 feet from any east/west unit boundary. The Applicant in this cause states that there is currently pending before the Commission in order to issue in Cause CD No. 201704596-T an application of Applicant requesting the Commission to approve the multiunit horizontal well involved herein and to establish a proper allocation factor for allocating the cost of and the production and proceeds from such multiunit horizontal well to each of the units affected thereby. The “land sections adjacent to the area within the location exception” requested herein in Sections 5 and 8, Township 7 North, Range 18 East, Pittsburg County, Oklahoma in regard to the subsurface location tolerance areas described above are Sections 4, 9, 16 and 17, Township 7 North, Range 18 East and Sections 32 and 33, Township 8 North, Range 18 East, all in Pittsburg County, Oklahoma. The other “land sections” surrounding Sections 5 and 8, Township 7 North, Range 18 East, Pittsburg County, Oklahoma are Sections 6, 7 and 18, Township 7 North, Range 18 East and Section 31, Township 8 North, Range 18 East, all in Pittsburg County, Oklahoma. There are no offset wells producing from the Mississippian, Woodford and Hunton common sources of supply towards which this location exception is moving. That the Applicant be permitted to drill and produce said well at said location for the Mississippian, Woodford and Hunton common sources of supply without any downward allowable adjustments and designate Applicant or some other party as operator. NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that this cause will be heard before an Administrative Law Judge on the Initial Hearing Docket at the Corporation Commission, Eastern Regional Office, 440 S. Houston, Suite 114, Tulsa, Oklahoma 74127 at 8:30 a.m. on the 7th day of August, 2017 and that this Notice be published as required by law and the rules of the Commission. NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that in the event this cause is uncontested, the Applicant, its representatives, witnesses and other proponents of the Applicant may appear and testify 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 the Applicant or Applicant's attorney, prior to the hearing date, and provide their name and phone number. NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that all interested persons may appear and be heard. For information concerning this action, contact Michael Anderson, Trinity Operating (USG), LLC, 1717 S. Boulder, Suite 201, Tulsa, Oklahoma 74119, 918/561-5619 or Ron M. Barnes or Grayson Barnes, BARNES LAW, PLLC, 1648 S. Boston Avenue, Ste. 100, Tulsa, Oklahoma 74119, 918/382-8686. CORPORATION COMMISSION OF OKLAHOMA /S/DANA L. MURPHY, Chairman /S/J. TODD HIETT, Vice Chairman /S/BOB ANTHONY, Commissioner DONE AND PERFORMED this 14th day of July, 2017. BY ORDER OF THE COMMISSION: /S/PEGGY MITCHELL, Secretary