Omega announced on September 9, 2025, that the Mecca Maslen lease in Craig County, Oklahoma, near the town of Vinita, has produced its first barrel of oil after being shut in for over a year. The pause in production occurred while negotiations with the former operator were underway to return the field to Omega for operations.
Omega Mid-Continent, LLC, which was formed on August 26, 2024, with the Oklahoma Secretary of State, paid the operator’s $25,000 bond to the Oklahoma Corporation Commission.
“It has been a long time coming,” reported Fred L. Croci, Omega CEO. “The Mecca Maslen lease is now operating with two of the five production wells flowing, and the remaining three are expected to come online within a week. We’re excited to see new results on future production estimates once all wells have been online for a month.”
Now that oil is flowing, Omega is also exploring other oil & gas acquisition opportunities in the Seminole, Oklahoma area, where two operators are considering retirement with no family succession plans. Andrew Dunn, Omega’s Tulsa-based attorney, has been instrumental in identifying prospective projects due to his full-time oil & gas law practice and years of experience on the Oklahoma Corporation Commission (OCC).
One such client owns interests in approximately 300 wells and other industry-related businesses of special interest to Omega, as the company plans to expand operations in the Oklahoma oil patch, focusing on waterflood projects and existing producing wells.
