BEFORE THE OIL AND GAS CONSERVATION COMMISSION

OF THE STATE OF COLORADO

 

IN THE MATTER OF THE PROMULGATION AND ESTABLISHMENT OF FIELD RULES TO GOVERN OPERATIONS IN THE HIAWATHA WEST FIELD, MOFFAT COUNTY, COLORADO

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CAUSE NO. 133

 

ORDER NO. 133-4

 

REPORT OF THE COMMISSION

 

This cause came on for hearing before the Commission on September 17, 1990 at 8:30 a.m. in Room 101, State Education Building, 201 East Colfax Avenue, Denver, Colorado, after giving Notice of Hearing as required by law, on the application of Texaco USA for an order allowing a second well to produce gas for the drilling and spacing unit consisting of the S11/2 of Section 24, Township 12 North, Range 101 West, 6th P.M. with a well Van Schaick Unit #1 Well #1 located in the NW1/4 SE1/4 of said Section 24 being the well producing for the unit, and a well Van Schaick B-3, located in the SW1/4 SW1/4 of said Section 24 capable of production and currently shut-in.

 

FINDINGS

 

The Commission finds as follows:

 

1.      Texaco USA, as applicant herein, is an interested party in the subject matter of the above-referenced hearing.

 

2.      Due notice of the time, place and purpose of the hearing has been given in all respects as required by law.

 

3.      The Commission has jurisdiction over the subject matter embraced in said Notice, and of the parties interested therein, and jurisdiction to promulgate the hereinafter prescribed order.

 

4.      The Commission issued Order No. 133-1 which established 320-acre drilling and spacing units for the production of gas from the Wasatch, the Fort Union-Lance-Lewis, and the Mesaverde pools underlying certain lands in Moffat County, that the permitted gas wells be located not less than 660 feet from the boundary line of any gas drilling unit, and that no more than one gas well on each drilling unit be permitted to produce from any one of the three pools listed above, and approving the multiple completion of Wasatch pool gas production, and approved the commingling of gas production from the Fort Union-Lance-Lewis pool and the Mesaverde pool.

 

5.      That evidence presented to the Hearing Officer indicates the ultimate recovery from the various reservoirs can be increased in an economic manner without any violation of correlative rights because the reservoir pressures indicate near depletion of the zones.

 

6.      That no known protests were received and the Hearing Officer recommends that the application be approved.

 

ORDER

 

NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS ORDERED, that Order No. 133-1 is hereby amended and a second well Van Schaick B-3 located in the SW1/4 SW1/4 of Section 24, Township 12 North, Range 101 West, 6th P.M. be allowed to produce from the formations underlying the 320-acre drilling and spacing unit consisting of the S1/2 of said Section 24 as allowed by the orders in Cause No. 133 in addition to the well Van Schaick Unit #1 Well #1 located in the NW1/4 SE1/4 of said Section 24.

 

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED, that the provisions contained in the above order shall become effective forthwith.

 

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED, that the Commission expressly reserves its right, after notice and hearing, to alter, amend or repeal any and/or all of the above orders.

 

ENTERED this 19th day of September 1990, as of September 17, 1990.

 

OIL AND GAS CONSERVATION COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF COLORADO

 

 

By 

Dennis R. Bicknell, Secretary

Dated at Suite 380

1580 Logan Street

Denver, Colorado  80203