Is there a corporate officer or ownership record linking Damon Darling to Darling Oil Corporation in Oklahoma?
Executive summary
Available public records and industry databases reviewed do not show a documented corporate officer or ownership entry that ties an individual named Damon Darling to Darling Oil Corporation in Oklahoma; the company appears in oil-and-gas producer listings with an Oklahoma address but no contemporaneous officer or owner names were published in the provided sources [1] [2]. State channels for confirming officer and ownership data include the Oklahoma Secretary of State business-records search and the Oklahoma Corporation Commission’s oil-and-gas filings and imaged documents, which are the next authoritative steps for a definitive match [3] [4].
1. Darling Oil Corporation appears in industry lists but without named officers in these sources
Darling Oil Corporation is listed in oil-and-gas operator and producer databases that aggregate well and production data and include a business address in Lamont, Oklahoma, but those listings in MineralAnswers and ShaleXP emphasize production metrics and contact records rather than corporate officer rosters, and the provided pages do not publish a named officer roster or ownership chain that includes “Damon Darling” [1] [2].
2. Official state business-record systems are the authoritative place to find officers or owners
The Oklahoma Secretary of State’s Business Records Department provides searchable filings that include registration, registered agent, and officer information for corporations and trade names, and should contain any formal record of corporate officers or registered owners if they have been filed in state records [3]. The absence of a direct citation to an SOS record for Damon Darling in the supplied material means the claim cannot be confirmed from the documents given [3].
3. Regulatory filings and production databases can corroborate operator identities but did not show a personal link here
The Oklahoma Corporation Commission (OCC) maintains oil-and-gas data files, an imaged documents system, and searchable well/operator records that can reveal regulatory contacts and operator filings; while the OCC and associated tools (including new GIS and OKIES systems) are mentioned as sources for identifying operator filings, none of the supplied OCC links or imaged-document references explicitly show a filing naming Damon Darling as an officer of Darling Oil Corporation in the provided snippets [5] [4] [6] [7].
4. Public profiles about “Damon Darling” in secondary media do not equate to corporate records
A celebrity/biographical page that mentions a person named Damon Darling and references oil-rig work and net-worth estimates exists in the search results, but that secondary profile does not provide or cite Oklahoma corporate filings linking the person to Darling Oil Corporation and appears to be tabloid-style content rather than a primary source of corporate ownership documentation [8]. Relying on such pages without corroborating state filings risks conflating biographical narrative with legal corporate status.
5. Limits of the current review and recommended next steps for a definitive answer
The current reporting and database snippets establish that Darling Oil Corporation operates in Oklahoma and is listed in industry aggregators, and they point to the Oklahoma Secretary of State and the OCC as the authoritative records custodians [1] [2] [3] [5]. However, none of the provided sources includes a scanned certificate, articles of incorporation, officer listing, or an OCC imaged document that names Damon Darling; therefore, the record linking a person named Damon Darling to Darling Oil Corporation cannot be verified from the supplied material [4]. For a conclusive determination, a direct search of the Oklahoma Secretary of State business entity records and a targeted records request to the Oklahoma Corporation Commission (both described in the supplied sources) would be necessary to retrieve officer/owner filings and any regulatory contact documents that might show a personal name on file [3] [9].