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NOTICE OF HEARING CAUSE CD NO. 2026-000895

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No. 163-March 12-1 Time

BEFORE THE CORPORATION

COMMISSION OF THE

STATE OF OKLAHOMA

APPLICANT: CONTINENTAL RESOURCES, INC.

RELIEF SOUGHT: POOLING

LEGAL DESCRIPTION: SECTION 16, TOWNSHIP 7 NORTH, RANGE 4 WEST, MCCLAIN COUNTY, OKLAHOMA

CAUSE CD NO. 2026-000895

NOTICE OF HEARING

STATE OF OKLAHOMA TO:  A.K. Tyson; Advocate Oil and Gas, LLC; Ailsa Foulke, or Alisa Foulke; Alexander Bryan, Jr.; Alexandra Mills; Amcon Resources, Inc.; Ann H. Sykes; Ansel Energy, LLC; Antero Royalties, Inc.; Arbuckle Mineral, LLC; Ashland Exploration Holdings, Inc.; Betty J. Ross, Trustee of the Betty Jean Ross Revocable Trust ult/a dated June 8, 2000; Bill Penn, a/k/a Billy Gene Penn; Black Horse Resources, LLC; Board of Trustees of and for the benefit of Munger Place Methodist Church; Board of Trustees of First Episcopal Church of Decatur Alabama n/k/a The First United Methodist Church; Breech Family Investments, LLC; BRR OK I LLC; Bryan David Guess; Bryant Head; Buffalo Bayou Resources II, LLC; Cal Farley’s Boys Ranch Foundation; Carey & Co.; Carole J. Drake, LLC; Carolyn Sue Sumners; Cherry Creek Minerals, LLC; Circle of Care, Inc.; CLM&B Enterprises LLC; CMin3, LLC; Colin Sykes; Comanche Oil and Gas, Inc.; Community Resources Oil & Gas, Inc.; Cornelia B. Hurst; D.B. Mason II; D.B. Mason III; Department of the Interior, Commissioner to the Five Civilized Tribes; Detrich Family Group; Drake-Gungoll Enterprises, A L.P.; Dumont Foundation; E. J. Burnell; Eckard Land & Acquisition, LLC; Eckard OK Holdings, LLC; Eckard Prospector Acquisition, LLC; Elsie Oltmanns, Trustee of the Oltmanns Family Revocable Trust, dtd 10/1/04; Emory Peak Minerals II, LLC; Encore Operating, Inc.; EOG Resources, Inc.; Evolution Petroleum OK, Inc.; Family Trust, created u/l/w/t of Virginia B. Ellis; Fifth Natural Resources, LLC; Fortune Natural Resources Corporation; G. Merwyn Eiland; Gaedeke Holding VII, Ltd.; Gene T. Whitener and Eva Whitener Lula Mock; Geneva O. Guess; Geoffrey Hoffman; Gila Group LP; Guard Exploration Limited Partnership; Gulftex Energy IV, LP; H. V. Sherrill; Hall Investment Company, LLC; Hef-Lin Energy Corp; Henry H. Gungoll Associates, a partnership; Henry Wesley Blomshield; High Sky Resources, LLC; Holly Bush Royalty, LLC; Huntsman Energy, LP; Iolanda Rose; J.F. Buck Energy, LLC; Jackie D. Willis; James S. Duncan and Betty I. Duncan Trustees of the Duncan Family Living Trust dated May 12, 1993 as Amended; James Thomas Alford; James W. Sykes; Jean Hoffman; Johanna Simpson; John Adams Crockett; Jon M. Dresser and Brenda J. Dresser ; Josephine B. Potter; Juliann W. Funke; Kaiser-Francis Oil Company; Kathleen F. Veit, a/k/a Kathleen Frances Veit; Kent Burkhart Oil & Gas Properties; Legend Resources; Linnie Calloway aka Linnie Callaway; Lobo Oil; Lorien Kelly Nassi; Lula Martha Mock; Maida Faye Keeling and Jon Michael Dresser, Trustees of Maida Faye Keeling 1986 Living Trust under Trust Agreement dated September 19, 1986; Maida Faye Keeling, formerly Maida F. Elledge; Marechal S. Simpson; Marilyn A. Seerey; Maudie Sue Blomshield, a/k/a Maudie Sue Bloomshield; Merlita Stiles; Midcon Energy PDP, LLC; MJ Energy LLC; Moorman Interests, Ltd; MOR Holdings, LLC; Mr. Cornelius Shields Jr.; Mr. Macrae Sykes; Mr. Peter R. Veit; Mrs. A.S. Bryan; Mrs. Irene A. Bashkiroff, Executrix of the Estate V. Bashkiroff; Mrs. Irene Bashkiroff; Mrs. Maria Cooper Janis; Ms. Norman Kelly; Myrtle L. Dresser; Noble Royalty Access Fund I, LP; NOMS Oil, LLC; O. C. Guess; Ovintiv USA, Inc.; Paul F. Engler; PEC Minerals, LP; Phyllis Ann Rich; Pioneer Mineral Interests, II, LLC; Rachel Bixler; Raintree Energy, LLC; Red Sky Resources III, LLC; Richard Sykes; Roadrunner Royalties, LLC; Robert Veit; ROK Energy, LLC; Rusty McDearmon and Roger J. Allen and their successors as co-trustees of Rose Family Trust B u/t/a dated June 27, 1989; Saints Energy Enterprises, LLC; Samuel E. Sims; Sanguine Employees Investments 1, LLC; Sanguine Gas Exploration, LLC; Sequoia Royalty Company, LLC; Shepherd Oil & Gas, LLC; Shoreline Energy, LLC; Sierra Madre Natural Resources, LLC; Simone Newcomb Crockett; Southwest Research Center a Texas non-profit corporation; Stamps Brothers Oil and Gas, LLC; Stephen H. Simpson; Sven Energy, LLC; The Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma A Public Body Cororation; The Edna Dacus Trust, Dated February 27, 2007; Theodore L. Crockett; Theodore L. Crockett ; Thiele Oil and Gas Investments, LLC; Timberwolf Minerals LLC; Tom Slick Memorial Trust for Mind Science Foundation; Tom Slick Memorial Trust for Southwest Foundation for Research and Education; Tom Slick Memorial Trust for Texas A & M University; Tom Slick Memorial Trust for Texas Christian University; Tom Slick Memorial Trust for the University of Texas at Austin; Tomahawk Energy, LLC; TPR Mid-Continent, LLC; Validus Energy II Midcon; Validus Minerals LLC; Valley View Foundation; VCT-OG, Ltd., a Texas limited partnership; Ventana Exploration & Production II, LLC; Virginia Bishop Wallace; Visa Industries of Arizona, Inc.; W.E. Daly Jr.; Wagner Trust dtd 12/9/85; WEP Operating OK, LLC; WEP Royalty Holdings, LLC; WEP Royalty, LLC; William Titgen; Winston Scott Witwer, as Trustee of the Winston Scott Witwer Trust under Trust Agreement dated November 1, 1988; C. C. Cummings; C. C. Harmon; Charles Franklin Beal alk/a Chas F. Beal and Laura Beal; D. W. lrwin; Edward Bynum; Iris French; Irma A. Winston; Katie Ragsdale and T.T. Ragsdale, Ellen McKinney and G.C. McKinney, R.E. Whitener and Estille Whitener, Emma Whitener, widow of C.F. Whitener; Laura Beal, Widow; Lethadeall Lushbaugh; Lizzie Chandler; Max S. Gardner; Opal Boen; Otis Cecil Guess; Otis Moore; Sherrill A. Parsons; Slick Employees Royalty Company; Slick Oil Corp.; V & W Oil Corp; Veda Sutton; Verda Reginelli; and all persons, owners, producers, operators, purchasers and takers of oil and gas and all other interested persons, particularly in McClain County, Oklahoma, and if any of the individuals are deceased, or if any of the companies are no longer in existence, the unknown heirs, executors, administrators, devisees, trustees, successors and assigns, immediate and remote, of the named parties.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Applicant in this cause is requesting the Commission pool the interests, designate an operator, and adjudicate the rights and equities of oil and gas owners in the Deese common source of supply underlying Section 16, Township 7 North, Range 4 West, McClain County, Oklahoma.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the Applicant in this cause is requesting the following special relief:  to designate the Applicant or some other party as Operator of the unit well.  Applicant is further requesting that the Order to be entered in this cause be made effective on a date prior to the date of the Order.  Applicant may request up to one year from the date of the Order to enter in this cause, with which to commence the initial well.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that this cause be set before an Administrative Law Judge for hearing, taking of evidence and reporting to the Commission.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that this cause will be heard before an Administrative Law Judge on the Initial Hearing Docket at the Corporation Commission, Oklahoma City, OK , at 8:30 a.m., on the 30th day of March, 2026, 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 has relocated 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 referenced hearing may be conducted via teleconference or video-conference. Before coming to the building for this hearing, please visit the Oklahoma Corporation Commission website at www.occeweb.com to determine the status of building access. Instructions for participating via teleconference or video-conference are available on the Commission’s website. 

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 telephone number.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that all interested persons may appear and be heard.  For information concerning this action, contact Brett Lowry, Landman, Telephone: (405) 843-2760, Email: brett.lowry@lowryland.com, 9500 Cedar Lake Avenue, Oklahoma City, OK  73114; OR ERIC L. HUDDLESTON, Attorney, Two Leadership Square, 211 North Robinson, Suite 1300, Oklahoma City, OK 73102, Telephone: (405) 232-3722.

CORPORATION

COMMISSION

OF OKLAHOMA

Kim David, CHAIRMAN

  1. Todd Hiett, Commissioner

Brian Bingman, Commissioner

DONE AND PERFORMED THIS 2nd DAY OF MARCH, 2026.

BY ORDER OF THE COMMISSION: 

Secretary




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