BEFORE THE OIL AND GAS CONSERVATION COMMISSION

OF THE STATE OF COLORADO

 

IN THE MATTER OF THE PROMULGATION                            )

AND ESTABLISHMENT OF FIELD RULES TO                         )                       CAUSE NO. 133

GOVERN OPERATIONS IN THE HIAWATHA WEST                 )

FIELD, MOFFAT COUNTY, COLORADO                                 )                       DOCKET NO. 0401-EX-01

 

NOTICE OF HEARING

 

TO ALL INTERESTED PARTIES AND TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

 

            On June 23, 1959, the Commission issued Order No. 133-1 establishing 320-acre drilling and spacing units for the production of gas and associated hydrocarbons from the Wasatch, Fort Union-Lance-Lewis and Mesaverde Formations for the below-listed lands, with the permitted well to be located no closer than 660 feet from the boundaries of the drilling unit and the wells previously drilled and capable of producing shall be the permitted wells for the units on which they are located:

 

Township 12 North, Range 100 West, 6th P.M.

Section 17: Lots 3 through 6

Section 18: Lots 5 through 12

Section 19: All

Section 20: W½

Section 29: NW¼

Section 30: All

 

Township 12 North, Range 101 West, 6th P.M.

Sections 13 and 14: Lots 1 through 8

Section 15: Lots 1, 2, 7, and 8

Section 22: E½

Sections 23 through 26: All

Section 27: E½

Section 34: NE¼

Sections 35 and 36: N½

 

            On August 18, 2003, the Commission issued Order No. 133-22, which allowed up to eight (8) wells to be drilled and completed for the production of gas and associated hydrocarbons from the Wasatch, Fort Union-Lance-Lewis and Mesaverde Formations on the 320-acre drilling and spacing units for the lands described below, with the additional wells being optional wells to be drilled and completed at the discretion of the Operator and with any new wells located no closer than 600 feet from the unit boundaries:

 

Township 12 North, Range 101 West, 6th P.M.

Section 26: All

Section 36: N½

 

            On November 14, 2003, Ensign Operating Co. (“Ensign”), by its attorney, filed with the Commission a verified application for an order to allow the drilling of the Lion Government #14-26 Well at an exception location 448 feet FSL and 1187 feet FWL of Section 26, Township 12 North, Range 101 West, 6th P.M., for the production of gas and associated hydrocarbons from the Wasatch and Fort Union-Lance-Lewis Formations. 

 

            NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the Oil and Gas Conservation Commission of the State of Colorado, pursuant to the above, has scheduled the above-entitled matter for hearing on:

 

                        Date:                                        Monday, January 5, 2004

 

                        Time:                                       10:00 a.m.

 

                        Place:                                      Suite 801, The Chancery Building

                                                                        1120 Lincoln Street

                                                                        Denver, CO 80203

 

            In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if any party requires special accommodations as a result of a disability for this hearing, please contact Audra Serlet at (303) 894-2100 ext. 114, prior to the hearing and arrangements will be made.

 

            Pursuant to said hearing in the above-entitled matter at the time and place aforesaid, or at any adjourned meeting, the Commission will enter such orders as it deems appropriate and necessary to protect the health, safety and welfare of the public and to prevent the waste of oil and gas, either or both, in the operations of said field, and to carry out the purposes of the statute.

 

In accordance with Rule 509., any interested party desiring to protest the granting of the application or to intervene should file with the Commission a written protest or a notice to intervene no later than December 22, 2003, briefly stating the basis of the protest or intervention.  Such interested party shall, at the same time, serve a copy of the protest or notice to intervene to the person filing the application.  An original and nine (9) copies shall be filed with the Commission.  Pursuant to Rule 503.e., if a party who has received notice under Rule 503.b. wishes to receive further pleadings in the above-referenced matter, that party must file a protest or intervention in accordance with these rules.  In accordance with the practices of the Commission, should no protests or interventions be filed in this matter by December 22, 2003, the Applicant may request that an administrative hearing be scheduled for the week of December 29, 2003.

                                                                                                                                            

 

                        IN THE NAME OF THE STATE OF COLORADO

 

                                                                        OIL AND GAS CONSERVATION COMMISSION

                                                                               OF THE STATE OF COLORADO

 

 

 

                                                                                    By_________________________________

                                                                                                  Patricia C. Beaver, Secretary

 

Dated at Suite 801                                                       Attorney for Applicant:

1120 Lincoln Street                                                     Michael J. Wozniak

Denver, Colorado 80203                                             Dorsey & Whitney, LLP

December 5, 2003                                                       370 17th Street, Suite 4700

                                                                                    Denver, CO 80202

                                                                                    (303) 629-3424