BEFORE THE CORPORATION COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA APPLICANT: TAPSTONE ENERGY, LLC RELIEF SOUGHT: POOLING Cause CD No. 201600201 LEGAL DESCRIPTION: Section 34, Township 20 North, Range 18 West of the IM, Dewey and Woodward Counties, Oklahoma 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 Dewey and Woodward Counties, Oklahoma, including the following: Bill Irvin Land Services, LLC; JMA Energy Company, LLC; Petroleum Strategies Unlimited, Inc.; Red Mountain Energy, LLC; The Prospect Company; The Earl Smith Family Trust, and the Trustee of such trust; Wyatt Petroleum Corporation; 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 the above-named party 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, Tapstone Energy, LLC, 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 the oil and gas owners in the 640-acre horizontal well unit to be formed in Section 34, Township 20 North, Range 18 West of the IM, Dewey and Woodward Counties, Oklahoma, for the Mississippian common source of supply, in respect to the development of such common source of supply in such unit. 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 such unit as a unit, and not limited to a single wellbore. The application in this cause states that Applicant has proposed the development of the common source of supply in the unit involved herein under a plan of development and has proposed to commence such plan of development of such unit 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 common source of supply in the unit 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. Such application further states that there is currently pending before the Commission an application of Applicant to form a 640-acre horizontal well unit in said Section 34 for the Mississippian common source of supply. NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the application in this cause requests that Tapstone Energy, LLC, or some other party recommended by Applicant be designated as operator under the order to be entered herein of the common source of supply in the unit 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 unit. 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 16th day of February, 2016, 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 Paul Willis, Tapstone Energy, LLC, 100 East Main Street, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73104, Telephone: (405) 702-1609. CORPORATION COMMISSION OF OKLAHOMA /s/ Bob Anthony BOB ANTHONY, Chairman /s/ Dana L. Murphy DANA. L. MURPHY, Vice Chairman /s/ J. Todd Hiett J. TODD HIETT, Commissioner DONE AND PERFORMED this 19th day of January , 2016. BY ORDER OF THE COMMISSION: /s/ Peggy Mitchell PEGGY MITCHELL, Commission Secretary 15763-0096noh
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