Letter to Kingfisher County Commissioners

Dear Commissioners:

On behalf of the Oklahoma Energy Producers Alliance (OEPA) we want to express our support of your right, as the duly elected County Commissioners of Kingfisher County, to determine what is in the best interest of the citizens and voters of Kingfisher County. As County Commissioners you have the authority and obligation to look out for your constituents, and to be good stewards of the land and roads in Kingfisher County.

The OEPA has a number of members who reside in or who operate conventional vertical oil and gas wells in Kingfisher County. OEPA members are Oklahoma oil and gas companies, leasehold owners and royalty owners concerned with protecting the rights of conventional vertical oil and gas well producers. Many of our members own their own companies and have lived and operated in Oklahoma for generations. As the representative of conventional vertical well operators, we support what is best for Oklahoma and its citizens.

Your considered and deliberative approach to reaching your decision regarding the use of county right of way for temporary oil field pipelines is to be commended. We admire your courage in taking on the proponents of using the right of way for their own private use exactly as they want to use it, and who will stop at nothing to get their way. It is unfortunate that heavy handed methods are being used and misrepresentations are being put forth by certain facets of our industry to justify the need to use the right of way to increase profits, without counterbalancing that against the interests and protection of the County and its citizens.

This note of encouragement assumes no position on the underlying issue, merely on your right to self-determination on how the roads in Kingfisher County should be used.

If we can be of assistance in this matter, please feel free to contact us.

Sincerely,

Dewey F. Bartlett, Chairman, OEPA

Mike Cantrell, Chairman, OEPA President, OEPA