BEFORE THE OIL AND GAS CONSERVATION COMMISSION

OF THE STATE OF COLORADO

 

IN THE MATTER OF THE PROMULGATION AND                    )          CAUSE NO. 1

ESTABLISHMENT OF FIELD RULES TO GOVERN                  )

OPERATIONS IN WASHINGTON COUNTY, COLORADO         )          DOCKET NO. 0405-SP-08

                                                                                               

NOTICE OF HEARING

 

TO ALL INTERESTED PARTIES AND TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

 

            Rule 318.a. requires that wells drilled in excess of two thousand five hundred (2,500) feet in depth be located not less than six hundred (600) feet from any lease line, and located not less than one thousand two hundred (1,200) feet from any other producible or drilling oil or gas well when drilling to the same common source of supply, unless authorized by order of the Commission upon hearing.

 

            On April 5, 2004, Delta Petroleum Corporation, by its attorney filed with the Commission a verified Application for an order to change the existing well setbacks in Rule 318.a. that apply to the below-listed lands to allow wells drilled in excess of two thousand five hundred (2,500) feet to be located no closer than 300 feet from the boundaries of any lease line and no closer than 600 feet from any producible or drilling well or wells, for production of oil, gas and associated hydrocarbons from the Niobrara, “D” Sand, “J” Sand and Paleozoic-Mississippian Formations:

 

Township 3 South, Range 49 West, 6^th P.M.

Sections 4 through 6: S½

Sections 7 through 9: All

Sections 15 through 36: All

 

            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, May 24, 2004

 

                        Time:                                       1:00 p.m.

 

Place:                                      Community Room at City Hall

                                                1000 10^th Street

                                                Greeley, CO 80631

 

            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 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 on the application should file with the Commission a written protest or intervention no later than May 10, 2004, briefly stating the basis of the protest or intervention.  Such interested party shall, at the same time, serve a copy of the protest or intervention to the person filing the application.  An original and nine (9) copies shall be filed with the Commission (Rule 503.f.).  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 May 10, 2004, the Applicant may request that an administrative hearing be scheduled for the week of May 10, 2004.

 

 

                        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                                         Harold E. Gosse

Denver, Colorado 80203                                 Gosse & Simpson

April 23, 2004                                                  475 17^th Street, Suite 1350

                                                                        Denver, CO 80202

                                                                        (303) 297-3466