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 COMANCHE FIELD, PROWERS COUNTY, COLORADO

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CAUSE NO. 183

 

ORDER NO. 183-1

 

REPORT OF THE COMMISSION

 

This cause came on for hearing before the Commission on October 20, 1964, at 10 a.m., in Room 132, State Services Building, Denver, Colorado, after publication of Notice of Hearing as required by law, on the application of Cleary Petroleum, Inc., for an order establishing 80-acre drilling and spacing units for the production of oil and gas from the Arbuckle, Viola, Kansas City-Lansing, Simpson, and Mississippian formations underlying Sections 23, 24, 25, and 26, Township 21 South, Range 46 West, 6th P.M., Prowers County, Colorado.  At this time, the above application was amended to include the Mississippian formation, only.

 

FINDINGS

 

The Commission finds as follows:

 

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

 

2.      That 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.

 

3.      That evidence presented at the hearing indicates that the Mississippian formation constitutes a common source of supply of oil and gas underlying the following described lands in Prowers County, Colorado, to-wit:

 

Township 21 South, Range 46 West, 6th P.M.

 

Sections 23, 24, 25 and 26

 

4.      That in order to prevent waste of oil and gas, as defined by law; to protect the correlative rights of all parties concerned; to prevent the drilling of unnecessary wells, and to insure proper and efficient development and promote conservation of the oil and gas resources of the State, an order should be made establishing 80-acre drilling units for the production of oil and gas from the Mississippian formation, common source of supply underlying the lands defined herein; that said units should be 80-acre drilling units consisting of the W½ or E½ of each quarter section according to the governmental survey thereof; and that the permitted well for each such drilling unit should be located in the center of the northwest quarter or southeast quarter of each such quarter section; and that a tolerance of 150 feet in any direction from the prescribed location should be permitted to avoid surface hazards and obstructions.

 

5.      That all available geological and engineering data concerning said Mississippian formation indicate that one well will efficiently and economically drain an area of approximately eighty (80) acres; and that drilling units of the size and shape hereinabove described are not smaller than the maximum area that can be efficiently drained by one well producing from said Mississippian formation.

 

6.      That any well drilled, and location approved by the Commission prior to October 20, 1964, should be the permitted well or location for the respective drilling unit.

 

ORDER

 

NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS ORDERED, that the following rules and regulations shall apply hereafter to a well drilled, completed, or recompleted in the Mississippian formation underlying the Comanche Field herein described, in addition to other applicable rules and regulations and orders of the Commission, if any, heretofore adopted and not in conflict herewith:

 

Rule 1.    Eighty (80) acre drilling and spacing units shall be and the same are hereby established for the production of oil and gas from the Mississippian formation underlying the following described lands in Prowers County, Colorado, to-wit:

 

Township 21 South, Range 46 West, 6th P.M.

 

Sections 23, 24, 25 and 26

 

and such area shall henceforth be known as the Comanche Field.

 

Rule 2.    Said drilling units shall consist of eighty (80) acres, and each such drilling unit shall be the W½ or E½ of each quarter section, according to the governmental survey thereof; and the permitted well for each such drilling unit shall be located in the center of the northwest quarter or southeast quarter of each such quarter section; and a tolerance of 150 feet in any direction from the prescribed location shall be permitted to avoid surface hazards and obstructions.

 

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED, that any well drilled, and location approved by the Commission prior to October 20, 1964, shall be the permitted well, or location for the respective drilling unit.

 

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, rules and regulations.

 

ORDERED this 20th day of October 1964.

 

OIL AND GAS CONSERVATION COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF COLORADO

 

 

By 

William R. Smith, Secretary