(CD4196917)
NOTICE OF HEARING
CAUSE NO. CD 2026-003233BEFORE THE CORPORATION COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA
APPLICANT: MEWBOURNE OIL COMPANY. RELIEF SOUGHT: POOLING. LAND COVERED: SECTION(S) 14, TOWNSHIP 13 NORTH, RANGE 24 WEST, ROGER MILLS COUNTY, OKLAHOMA
THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA: To the following parties, if living; or if deceased, then their unknown heirs, devisees, executors, administrators, successors, trustees, and/or assigns; or, the unknown successors, trustees or assigns, if any, of any dissolved corporation, or the unknown successors of any party designated in any record as trustee: Keystone Energy, LLC; MAKO Resources, L.L.C.; North Point Resources, LLC; PetroVen, Inc.; Red Cube Exploration Company, LLC; Tarpon Jumper LLC; Upland Exploration Oklahoma, LLC; Teton Range Operating; Happy Gizzard Minerals, LLC; 1945 Legacy Ventures LLC; Tri-Up, LLC; Ventana Exploration and Production II, LLC; Ventana Operating, LLC; Walden Exploration Company LLC; Winding River Energy Services, Corp.; Yukon Trading Company, L.L.C.; Boley Embrey c/o Raye Ann Embrey; Las Colinas Minerals LP; Okcity Energy, Inc.; Sandra H. Staley, Trustee of the Tax Free Trust for Sandra H. Staley; The Monhegan Co., a general partnership; Darko Minerals, Ltd., a limited partnership; Judi Lapin, Trustee of the Bass Family Trust dated 5-6-03(1); Judi Lapin, Trustee of the Bass Family Trust dated 5-6-03(1); Helen E. Ferris c/o David Krebs; Yvonne M. Villalanti c/o Gabriella Villalanit; Ascension Oil & Gas, LLC; BD Exploration Company, LLC; Big Cedar Resources, LLC; Casino Energy Company, LLC; Coleman Oil and Gas, Inc.; Duke Minerals Non-Op, LLC; Durus Land & Minerals, LLC; Huron Exploration Company, LLC; Journey Oil & Gas, Inc.; BB Royalty Partnership; Lochbuie LLC; Duane J. Magee c/o Jack Carter Magee; JCP Royalty LLC; Oakspring Exploration LLC; American Hydrocarbons Co., LLC; AWS Properties, LP; JHG Properties, LP; NTWJ Properties, LP; Ware Oil & Gas, Inc.; Bryan Lee Rankin; Arthur J. Lappi c/o Margarete Peterson; Cargoil Oil & Gas Co., LLC; John B. Bridges; Jeffrey Daniel Elkin; Mary Elizabeth Lemons; Sharon Elizabeth Thames Rankin; Andi Rae Vencill; Dillon Taylor; Richard Blake Thames; William A. Besser, Jr.; Esa Wiegert Woodland; Morgan Ottley; Thomas Ottley; Julie Blades; Lorre Ching; Sherrie Anderson; Brooks Huston Energy Corporation; Regions Permian III, LLC; Lario Permian III, LLC; Lario Permian III, LLC; Hercules Exploration Company LLC; C.O. Ted Collins, Jr.; The known and unknown heirs of C.O. Ted Collins, Jr., Deceased; The known and unknown heirs of Duane J. Magee, Deceased; The known and unknown heirs of Helen E. Ferris, Deceased; The known and unknown heirs of John B. Bridges, Deceased; The known and unknown heirs of Yvonne M. Villalanti, Deceased; and all persons, owners, producers and operators, purchasers and takers of oil and gas, and all other interested persons in Roger Mills County, Oklahoma.NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Applicant in this Cause is requesting that the Commission pool all oil and gas interests in the Tonkawa common source(s) of supply in the 640-acre drilling and spacing unit consisting of Section(s) 14, Township 13 North, Range 24 West, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma, adjudicating the rights and equities of the oil and gas owners thereof and designating Mewbourne Oil Company, or some other party, as operator of the unit well.
NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the Applicant in this Cause is requesting the following special relief:
(a) The Applicant shall 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 of its 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.
(b) The Applicant may propose that the Order to issue in this Cause provide a method for proposal of subsequent wells, including multiunit horizontal wells; and, for response to that proposal by owners who elect to participate in the initial well.
(c) At the hearing the applicant may 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.
(d) The Applicant may also propose that parties electing not to participate in subsequent wells drilled hereunder be limited to a specific option for bonus and royalty in lieu of participation.
(e) Applicant may request that said Order be made effective on a date prior to its signing.
NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that this Cause will be heard before an Administrative Law Judge on the Initial Hearing Docket at 8:30 A.M. on the 5th day of October, 2026, at the Will Rogers Memorial Office Building, 2401 N. Lincoln Blvd., in the Capitol Complex, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73105, and that this notice be published as required by law and the rules of the Commission.
Due to renovation work at the Jim Thorpe Office Building, the Commission's Oklahoma City office is relocating to the Will Rogers Memorial Office Building at 2401 N. Lincoln Blvd., in the Capitol Complex, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73105. All hearings, docket calls, and public meetings will be conducted in the Concourse Theater or additional courtrooms located in the tunnel between the Will Rogers Memorial Office Building and the Sequoyah Memorial Office Building. The specific room location, including updates, of each scheduled hearing or public meeting will be available on or before the day of the event at the information desk in the first-floor lobby of the Will Rogers Memorial Office Building and on the Commission's website at: https://oklahoma.gov/occ/court-dockets.html.
NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the 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 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 application, contact BENJAMIN J. BROWN, OBA #30843, Attorney for Applicant, 233 S. Detroit Ave., Suite 100, Tulsa, Oklahoma 74120, Telephone (918) 779-6047, www.charneybrown.com/faqs, or contact Cole Chapman, (405) 235-6374, landman at Mewbourne Oil Company.OKLAHOMA CORPORATION COMMISSION
Kim David,
Chairman
J. Todd Hiett,
Commissioner
Brian Bingman,
CommissionerBENJAMIN J. BROWN, OBA NO. 30843
233 S. Detroit Ave., Suite 100
Tulsa, Oklahoma 74120
(918) 779-6047
cbfilings@charneybrown.com
ATTORNEY FOR APPLICANT(9-17-26)