Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993-Southwest Research Institute-Cooperative Research Group on Mechanical Stratigraphy and Natural Deformation in the Permian Strata of Texas and New Mexico: Implications for Exploitation of the Permian Basin-Phase 2

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title: "Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993-Southwest Research Institute-Cooperative Research Group on Mechanical Stratigraphy and Natural Deformation in the Permian Strata of Texas and New Mexico: Implications for Exploitation of the Permian Basin-Phase 2"
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#  Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993—Southwest Research Institute-Cooperative Research Group on Mechanical Stratigraphy and Natural Deformation in the Permian Strata of Texas and New Mexico: Implications for Exploitation of the Permian Basin—Phase 2

Notice is hereby given that, on February 14, 2022, pursuant to Section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 *et seq.* (“the Act”), Southwest Research Institute—Cooperative Research Group on Mechanical Stratigraphy and Natural Deformation in the Permian Strata of Texas and New Mexico: Implications for Exploitation of the Permian Basin—Phase 2 (“Permian Basin—Phase 2”) has filed written notifications simultaneously with the Attorney General and the Federal Trade Commission disclosing changes in its membership. The notifications were filed for the purpose of extending the Act's provisions limiting the recovery of antitrust plaintiffs to actual damages under specified circumstances. Specifically, Noble Energy, Inc. changed its name to Chevron U.S.A. Inc.

No other changes have been made in either the membership or planned activity of the group research project. Membership in this group research project remains open, and Permian Basin—Phase 2 intends to file additional written notifications disclosing all changes in membership.

On August 15, 2019, Permian Basin—Phase 2 filed its original notification pursuant to Section 6(a) of the Act. The Department of Justice published a notice  in the *Federal Register* pursuant to Section 6(b) of the Act on September 13, 2019 (84 FR 48377).

The last notification was filed with the Department on January 10, 2020. A notice was published in the *Federal Register* pursuant to Section 6(b) of the Act on January 31, 2020 (85 FR 5719).

Suzanne Morris,

Chief, Premerger and Division Statistics, Antitrust Division.