CD-201400364-T (Published in the Friday edition of The Duncan Banner, February 6, 2015-1 time) BEFORE THE CORPORATION COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA APPLICANT: NEWFIELD EXPLORATION MID- CONTINENT INC. RELIEF SOUGHT: WELL LOCATION EXCEPTION (PART OF A MULTIUNIT HORIZONTAL WELL) LEGAL DESCRIPTION: SECTION 33, TOWNSHIP 3 NORTH, RANGE 4 WEST, GARVIN COUNTY, OKLAHOMA CAUSE CD NO. 201400364-T AMENDED NOTICE OF HEARING TO ALL PERSONS, OWNERS, PRODUCERS, OPERATORS, PURCHASERS AND TAKERS OF OIL AND GAS Continental Resources, Inc.; Kaiser Francis Oil Company; Marathon Oil Co.; Samson Resources Company; 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 Garvin County, Oklahoma. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Applicant, Newfield Exploration Mid-Continent Inc. 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 drilling and spacing unit formed in Section 33, Township 3 North, Range 4 West, Garvin County, Oklahoma for the Woodford common source of supply, so as to allow, in part, a well, being a proposed multiunit horizontal well, to be drilled. NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that Applicant requests that that Order No. 599339 be amended to permit a well to be drilled and produced at the following location: SURFACE LOCATION: 2,486 FEET FROM THE SOUTH LINE AND 2,200 FEET FROM THE EAST LINE OF SECTION 4, TOWNSHIP 2 NORTH, RANGE 4 WEST, STEPHENS COUNTY, OKLAHOMA FIRST PERFORATION: 2,365 FEET FROM THE NORTH LINE AND 2,048 FEET FROM THE EAST LINE OF SECTION 4, TOWNSHIP 2 NORTH, RANGE 4 WEST, STEPHENS COUNTY, OKLAHOMA MD - 14,883'TVD - 14,596' SOUTH LINE OF SECTION 33/NORTH LINE OF SECTION 4: 0 FEET FROM THE SOUTH LINE AND 2,049 FEET FROM THE EAST LINE OF SECTION 33, TOWNSHIP 3 NORTH, RANGE 4 WEST, GARVIN COUNTY, OKLAHOMAMD-17,253' TVD - 14,465' LAST PERFORATION: 158 FEET FROM THE NORTH LINE AND 2,048 FEET FROM THE EAST LINE OF SECTION 33, TOWNSHIP 3 NORTH, RANGE 4 WEST, GARVIN COUNTY, OKLAHOMA MD - 22,382' TVD - 14,412' TERMINUS (BOTTOM HOLE LOCATION): 53 FEET FROM THE NORTH LINE AND 2,044 FEET FROM THE EAST LINE OF SECTION 33, TOWNSHIP 3 NORTH, RANGE 4 WEST, GARVIN COUNTY, OKLAHOMA MD - 22,487' TVD - 14,408' That Order No. 599339 established a 640-acre drilling and spacing unit for the Woodford common source of supply underlying Section 33, Township 3 North, Range 4 West, Garvin County, Oklahoma, which order requires the well to be located no closer than 1,320 feet from the unit boundary. That the entire length of the lateral has been cemented such that the perforations are isolated from the beginning and end point of the lateral. The Applicant in this cause states that there is currently pending before the Commission in Cause CD No. 201400362-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 Section 33 in regard to the subsurface location tolerance areas described above is Section 4, Township 2 North, Range 4 West, Stephens County, Oklahoma and Section 28, Township 3 North, Range 4 West, Garvin County, Oklahoma. The other land sections surrounding Section 33 are Sections 5, 4 and 3, Township 2 North, Range 4 West, Stephens County, Oklahoma and Sections 32, 29, 27 and 34, Township 3 North, Range 4 West, Garvin County, Oklahoma. That the Applicant be permitted to drill and produce said well at said location for the Woodford common source of supply without any downward allowable adjustments and designate Applicant 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 23rd day of February, 2015 and that this Amended 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 Eric Weidemann, Newfield Exploration Mid-Continent Inc., One Williams Center, Suite 1900, Tulsa, Oklahoma 74172, 918/582-2690 or Ron M. Barnes, CRUTCHMER & BARNES, P.L.L.C., 1648 S. Boston Avenue, Ste. 100, Tulsa, Oklahoma 74119, 918/382-8686. CORPORATION COMMISSION OF OKLAHOMA BOB ANTHONY, Chairman DANA L. MURPHY, Vice Chairman J. TODD HIETT, Commissioner DONE AND PERFORMED this 3rd day of February, 2015. BY ORDER OF THE COMMISSION: PEGGY MITCHELL, Secretary
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