Validus Energy II Midcon LLC, Cause CD No. 2026-003371

No. 860-October 1-1 Time

BEFORE THE CORPORATION

COMMISSION OF THE

STATE OF OKLAHOMA

APPLICANT: VALIDUS ENERGY II MIDCON LLC

RELIEF SOUGHT: POOLING

LEGAL DESCRIPTION: SECTION 36, TOWNSHIP 8 NORTH, RANGE 4 WEST, MCCLAIN COUNTY, OKLAHOMA

CAUSE CD NO. 2026-003371

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 McClain County, Oklahoma, and all parties listed as respondents on Exhibit “A”, attached to the Application on file herein, and more particularly: Ann L.R. Zeligson; Arrow Oil & Gas, Inc.; B & G Resources, LLC; Bank of Oklahoma as Trustee of that Trust dated November 7, 1975 as amended, created by Laura Owens Bennett as Trustor for her benefit; Blackacre Resources, LLC; Blue Ox Holdings LLC; BNW, Inc.; Brentwood Resources, LLC; Bromide, Inc.; Clary Resources LLC; Cobalt Energy Partners LLC; Continental Resources, Inc; Eckard OK Holdings LLC; Edgewood Oil and Gas LLC; Elizabeth Loveless, a/k/a Elizabeth Loveless Wetz; Evolution Petroleum OK Inc; Factor Fund, LLC; Feather Creek Investments LLC; GDQC LLC; Greenhead Energy LLC; Hale Land & Royalty, LLC; Hall-Ward Energy Fund LP; Hancock Whitney Bank, as trustee of the Elizabeth Seibold Non-Generation Skipping Trust; Inland Oil & Gas Company, Inc.; James K. Brown; Jessica Angelique Marie Cox, f/k/a Jessica Angelique Marie Sickman; John F. Schroer, III; John J. Hereford; John R. Hibbard; Jordan Elizabeth Sickman; Kirk Taylor; L.D. Hibbard, Jr.; Lee Ann Niggemeyer; Lo Yare, LP; M.G. Cohen Properties, LLC; Magnum Energy LLC; Marathon Oil Company; M-B Operating Co., Inc.; McCurdy Oil and Gas LLC; Midcon Energy Development, LLC; MNO I LLC; Morris Holdings, LLC; Murray Street Investments LLC; Northwest Royalty, LLC; NuWay Energy Corporation; NWR Mineral Partners LLC; Orr Oil & Gas E&P, Inc.; Otasco Oil Company; P&C Bennett Minerals, LLC; Paul Aldridge; PSEC, Inc.; Rachel Rene Roland Oaks; Ray H Potts; Richard Treadwell; Robert D. Annear and Julie L. Annear, husband and wife, as joint tenants; Sovereign Energy Capital Partners; Stephenson Resources, LLC; Stephenson Resources, LLC; Suzanne D Gibbens, trustee of the Suzanne D Gibbens Trust dated 10/31/15; Texakoma Resource LLC; TGF Holdings LLC; Thomas Giles Farrier; University of the Ozarks; Uno, Inc.; Viola Inc; Volunteer Capital LLC; Weststar Oil and Gas Inc; Windward Consulting Service, Inc.; and Yukon Trading Company, L.L.C., if living, or if deceased, the known and unknown heirs, devisees, executors, administrators, successors, trustees and/or assigns, immediate and remote, of the above named parties.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Applicant in this Cause is requesting that the Commission pool the interests and adjudicate the rights and equities of oil and gas owners in the Deese common source of supply underlying Section 36, Township 8 North, Range 4 West, McClain County, Oklahoma, a 640-acre horizontal drilling and spacing unit, and designate the Applicant or some other party as operator. The Applicant requests the Pooling Order cover an owner’s interest in all wells drilled on said unit which are necessary to fully develop the same.

IT IS ORDERED that this Cause be referred to an Administrative Law Judge for hearing, taking of evidence and reporting to the Commission.

IT IS ORDERED AND NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that this Cause will be heard before an Administrative Law Judge on the Merits Docket at the Will Rogers Memorial Office Building, 2401 N. Lincoln Blvd., in the Capitol Complex, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 73105, at 8:30 a.m., on the 19th day of October, 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 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 the Applicant’s attorney, prior to the hearing date, and provide their name and phone number.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the referenced hearing may be conducted via teleconference or videoconference. Before coming to the building for this hearing, please visit the Oklahoma Corporation Commission website at https://oklahoma.gov/occ.html to determine the status of building access. Instructions for participating via teleconference or videoconference are available on the Commission’s website.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that all interested persons may appear and be heard.  For information concerning this action contact KOBY ORNDORFF at (405) 849-4884, OR KEVIN MANNING at KevinM@validus-energy.com, Validus Energy II Midcon LLC, 14000 Quail Springs Parkway, Suite 300, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 73134, or STEPHEN T. GARY, Attorney, 701 Cedar Lake Blvd., Suite 230, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 73114, (405) 232-9000.  Please refer to Cause CD Number.

CORPORATION COMMISSION OF OKLAHOMA

KIM DAVID, Chairman

1. TODD HIETT, Commissioner

BRIAN BINGMAN, Commissioner

/s/ Stephen T. Gary

STEPHEN T. GARY