(CD4133649)
NOTICE OF HEARING
CAUSE CD NO. 2026-000452BEFORE THE CORPORATION COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA
APPLICANT: UPLAND OPERATING LLC AND UPLAND EXPLORATION OKLAHOMA, LLC. RELIEF SOUGHT: POOLING. LEGAL DESCRIPTION: SECTION 2, TOWNSHIP 14 NORTH, RANGE 24 WEST, ROGER MILLS COUNTY, OKLAHOMA
TO ALL PERSONS, OWNERS, PRODUCERS, OPERATORS, PURCHASERS AND TAKERS OF OIL AND GAS, INCLUDING but not limited to all persons if living or if deceased, their known and unknown heirs, executors, administrators, devisees, trustees and assigns, immediate and remote of any such party, and all corporations existing and if dissolved, known and unknown successors, and all persons having an interest in the captioned land.NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Applicant requests that the Commission enter an order pooling the interests and adjudicating the rights and equities of oil and gas owners in the Upper Cherokee and Lower Cherokee common sources of supply underlying Section 2, Township 14 North, Range 24 West, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma, and designating Applicant or some other owner of the right to drill as operator of the unit well. Applicant may request at the hearing that the order provide that any owner electing an alternative to participation in the well drilled thereunder shall be deemed to have relinquished all working interest and right to drill in the unit and common sources of supply named herein as to such well and any wells drilled subsequent thereto.
Special Relief: Applicant may also request that the order to issue in this cause provide to the operator a period of one (1) year from the date of the order in which to commence operations for the drilling of the initial well proposed hereunder. Applicant further requests that the order to be entered in this cause may be made effective prior to the date of issuance of the order.
NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the hearing on the Pooling is set before an Administrative Law Judge on February 23, 2026, at 8:30 a.m., at the Concourse Theater, Suite C50, Will Rogers Memorial Office Building, 2401 N. Lincoln Blvd., in the Capitol Complex, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73105. The Concourse Theater is located in the tunnel between the Will Rogers Memorial Office Building and the Sequoyah Memorial Office Building.
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 BJ Kirtley, Upland Operating LLC, 424 South Maine Street, Boerne, Texas 78006-2338, Telephone: 405/821-8053, Email address: BJ.Kirtley@uplandexploration.com, and/or Gregory L. Mahaffey and/or Caleb A. Hartwell, Attorneys, 300 N.E. 1st Street, Oklahoma City, OK 73104-4004, Telephone: 405/236-0478.CORPORATION COMMISSION OF OKLAHOMA
KIM DAVID,
Chairman
J. TODD HIETT,
Commissioner
BRIAN BINGMAN,
CommissionerDONE AND PERFORMED ON THIS 3RD DAY OF FEBRUARY 2026.
BY ORDER OF THE COMMISSION:
GAREY L. WORTHAM,
Commission Secretary(2-6-26)