Eckard Energy, LLC and Eckard Operating, LLC CD 2026-001126

No. 212-March 19-1 Time

BEFORE THE CORPORATION

COMMISSION OF THE

STATE OF OKLAHOMA

APPLICANT: ECKARD ENERGY, LLC AND ECKARD OPERATING, LLC

RELIEF SOUGHT: POOLING

LAND COVERED: SECTION(S) 17, TOWNSHIP 7 NORTH, RANGE 4 WEST, MCCLAIN COUNTY, OKLAHOMA 

CAUSE NO. CD 2026-001126

NOTICE OF HEARING

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: Barber Exploration Company; Buckhead Energy, LLC; Bunker Energy, LLC; CALM Fort Worth Ventures, LLC; Cecil A. Beasley, Jr.; Clement Resources, LLC; Colton Properties, LLC; Curtis Gibbons; Echo Energy Partners I, LLC; EOG Resources, Inc.; Evolution Petroleum OK, Inc.; Family Trust created under Article IV of the LWT of Virginia Bishop Ellis, deceased; Fortune Natural Resources Corp.; G. Lyndell Buck Revocable Trust, Clema I. Buck and Thomas R. Buck as Successor Co-Trustees, Probable Successor of G. Lyndell Buck estate, deceased; Gasex 1982-A; Green Hills Investments, LLC; Gwen Greenspan; Hall Energy Co.; Hall Investment Company, LLC; IBEX Resources Company, LLC; J&L Exploration Company; JAMco Energy, LLC; James M. Ryan; Jean K. Garvey, Trustee of the Jean K. Garvey Revocable Trust; Joey A. Turner; Kaiser-Francis Oil Company; Kodiak Production Company, c/o Ovintiv USA, Inc.; Legacy Resources, LLC, c/o Ovintiv USA, Inc.; Leslie M. Kite; Mahaffey & Gore; Marathon Oil Corporation; Ovintiv USA, Inc.; Posse Energy, Ltd.; Riverbend Exploration & Production, LLC; RKK Production Company; Robert W. Slott; Sgt Pepper’s Band, LLC; Sharon Kay Anderson; Shepherd Oil & Gas, LLC; SOBO I, LLC; Steve Gibbons; Steven M. Anderson; Survey Energy, Inc.; Terrane Associates, Inc.; Texas Energy Supply; The Autry Group, LLC; Tommy J. Rutledge; Triumph Investments, Inc.; Veenker Resources, Inc.; Veenker Resources, Inc. Profit Sharing Trust; Ventana Exploration and Production II, LLC; Yukon Trading Company, LLC; Zephyr Resources, LLC; Bruce E. Roberts Revocable Trust, possibly deceased; Diana C. Broze Revocable Trust; Heirs and devisees of G. Lyndell Buck estate, deceased; James O. Weldon, possibly deceased; John A. Heubel & Leone M. Heubel, Co-Owners; and all persons, owners, producers and operators, purchasers and takers of oil and gas, and all other interested persons in McClain 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 Osborn common source(s) of supply in the 640-acre horizontal drilling and spacing unit consisting of Section(s) 17, Township 7 North, Range 4 West, McClain County, Oklahoma, adjudicating the rights and equities of the oil and gas owners thereof and designating Eckard Energy, LLC and Eckard Operating, LLC, 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 6th day of April, 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 Kristen Schmidt, (405) 443-3700 ext. 505, kschmidt@eckardenergy.com, landman at Eckard Energy, LLC and Eckard Operating, LLC.

OKLAHOMA CORPORATION COMMISSION 

Kim David, Chairman

1. Todd Hiett, Commissioner

Brian Bingman, Commissioner

/s/ Benjamin J. Brown

BENJAMIN J. BROWN,

OBA NO. 30843