The school farm facilities at Lomega High School will be expanding to include four new buildings, thanks to a donation from oil exploration company Ovintiv Inc.

Lomega and Okeene public schools will receive four portable buildings each of various sizes, Dylan Lindauer, Ovintiv’s water management coordinator for the company’s Anadarko operating area, said.

“They were built by [Ovintiv predecessor] Newfi eld to protect above ground piping,” Lindauer said.

In the process of upgrading pipelines to prevent leaks, or burying them underground in some places, the buildings are no longer needed, he said.

“We have an excess of buildings now, so we are trying to sell them or donate them when possible,” Lindauer said. “Some of them are fully insulated.”

Lindauer and fellow Ovintiv representatives Jacob Massey, Jeremy Price and Orson Barney, Dustin Robinson, Hiram Silva, Luis Cazares, Eric Molina, Omar Caron, Jose Zendejas and Silviano Perez recently visited Lomega schools to formally announce the gift.

Lomega FFA adviser Laramie Lopp, Supt. Steve Shiever and a group of ag students welcomed the Ovintiv group.

“This generous donation from Ovintiv is going to be used to improve and expand the school farm facilities at Lomega,” Lopp said. “The FFA kids will get tremendous use out of the buildings given to us.”

The buildings will provide housing for students’ show pigs and cattle, among other uses, he said.

“I’m confident these facilities will help kids be more competitive in coming years,” Lopp said. “We’re very appreciative of the donation.”

The buildings will be delivered and installed as soon as concrete pads are constructed, Lindauer said.

“They are being stored at an easy location to move them from once the concrete work is done,” he said.