Arvada City Hall, Council Chambers

8101 Ralston Rd.

Arvada, Colorado 80002

 

Monday, April 21, 2003

Agenda

 

À10:00 a.m.    Roll Call of Commissioners

 

                        Approval of Proceedings

 

À10:05 a.m.  Report from the Executive Director’s Office

 

10:20 a.m.     Report from the Director - Written report provided

 

Á10:30 a.m.    Report from the Assistant Attorney General

 

Á10:40 a.m.    Commissioner Comments

 

Á10:50 a.m.    Audience Comments

 

Á11:00 a.m.    Consent Agenda

 

                        Cause No. 517, Docket No. 0302-GA-01, Purgatorie River Field, Las Animas County

Applicant:                    Evergreen Operating Corporation

Attorney:                      Stephen J. Sullivan

 

Protestant:                  William Silverman

Attorney:                      Paige Brock

 

                        Subject:                       Request for a variance to allow the Kildare 42-20 Well to be located                                                                        closer than 150 feet from the surface owner’s property.

 

                        Comments:                 Continued to the June hearing pending a settlement between the                                                                parties.           

                       

Á11:10 a.m.   Cause No. 1V, Docket No. 0304-OV-04, McClave Field, Kiowa County

                        Staff Recommendation

 

                        Subject:                     Request to enter an Order Finding Violation finding Frederick J. Schaffer Jr. in violation of Rule 326.b.(1) for failure to either perform a mechanical integrity test, produce, or plug and abandon the State-Pyle #1 Well located in the NW¼ SE¼ of Section 6, Township 20 South, Range 48 West 6th P.M. and the State-Pyles-Calvert #1 Well located in the SW¼ NE¼ of Section 11, Township 20 South, Range 49 West, 6th P.M.

 

Á11:45 a.m.    Cause No. 146, Docket No. 0304-GA-02, Leyden Gas Storage Field, Jefferson County

                         Applicant:                   Public Service Company

                         Attorneys:                   James D. Albright/William A. Keefe

                       

                       Protestant:                El Dorado Estates Homeowners Association, Mobelisk, L.L.C., and Northwest Industrial Subdivision II, Inc.

                        Attorney:                      Stephen J. Sullivan/Keith D. Tooley

 

                        Protestant:                  Union Pacific Railroad

                        Attorney:                      Kathleen M. Sneed

 

                        Intervenor:                   Jefferson County Department of Health and Environment

                        Representative:           Roy Laws       

 

                        Subject:                       Request for an order authorizing the closure of the Leyden Underground Natural Gas Storage Facility in the caverns of the abandoned Leyden Coal Mine.

 

                        Comments:                 Prehearing conferences held on April 8, 2003 and on April 14, 2003.  Prehearing conference summary provided to the Commissioners and the parties.

                                                                      

 

CONSENT AGENDA

April 21, 2003

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No protests/interventions were received on the matters listed below and administrative hearings were held for these matters.  Appropriate testimony accompanied by required exhibits were presented to the Hearing Officers in support of the application.  The Hearing Officer recommendations were provided and exhibits are available upon request.  The Applicants agreed to be bound by oral Order of the Commission.

 

                        Cause No. 191, Docket No. 0304-SP-03, Mam Creek Field, Garfield County

                         Applicant:                   Calpine Natural Gas Company

                         Attorney:                     Stephen J. Sullivan

 

Subject:                       Request for an order to vacate the 640-acre drilling and spacing unit consisting of         Section 35, Township 6 South, Range 92 West, 6th P.M. for production of gas and associated hydrocarbons from the Mesaverde Formation.                                              

                        Hearing Officers:         David Dillon/Tricia Beaver

                       

                        Comments:                 Heard by Hearing Officers who recommend approval.

 

                        Cause No. 133, Docket No. 0304-AW-04, Hiawatha West Field, Moffat County

                         Applicant:                   Ensign Operating Company

                         Attorney:                     Michael J. Wozniak

 

                        Subject:                       Request for an order allowing up to four (4) wells to be drilled and completed at the option of the operator on 320-acre drilling and spacing units in Section 26 and the N½ of Section 36, Township 12 North, Range 101 West, 6th P.M. for the production of gas and associated hydrocarbons from the Wasatch, Fort Union, Lance, and Lewis Formations.

 

                        Hearing Officers:         Morris Bell/Tricia Beaver

                       

                        Comments:                 Heard by Hearing Officers who recommend approval.

 

                       

                        Cause Nos. 139, 440, 479, 495, 510, Docket No. 0304-AW-03, Rulison, Parachute and                                                     Grand Valley Fields, Garfield County

                         Applicant:                   Williams Production RMT Company

                         Attorney:                     William A. Keefe

 

Subject:                       Request for an order to allow additional wells to be drilled on ten (10) acre density directionally from 40-acre well sites or previously approved 20-acre well sites for certain lands in Township 6 South, Ranges 94 - 96 West, 6th P.M., and Township 7 South, Ranges 95 and 96 West, 6th P.M. for the production of gas and associated hydrocarbons from the Williams Fork Formation.

 

                        Hearing Officers:         Brian Macke/Tricia Beaver

                       

                        Comments:                 Heard by Hearing Officers who recommend approval.

                       

 

                        Cause No. 133, Docket No. 0304-AW-05, Hiawatha West Field, Moffat County

                         Applicant:                   Wexpro Company

                         Attorney:                     William A. Keefe

 

Subject:                       Request for an order allowing up to five (5) wells to be drilled in existing 320-acre drilling units established in Section 30, Township 12 North, Range 100 West and Section 25, Township 12 North, Range 101 West, 6th P.M. for the production of gas and associated hydrocarbons from the Wasatch, Fort Union, Lance, and Lewis Formations.

 

                        Hearing Officers:         Tricia Beaver /Morris Bell

 

                        Comments:                 Heard by Hearing Officers who recommend approval.