BEFORE THE OIL AND GAS CONSERVATION COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF COLORADO
IN THE MATTER OF THE PROMULGATION OF FIELD RULES TO GOVERN THE SPACING AND DENSITY OF OIL AND GAS WELLS IN THE ADENA FIELD, MORGAN COUNTY, COLORADO	) ) ) )	CAUSE NO. 26 ORDER NO. 26-17

REPORT OF THE COMMISSION

This Cause came on for further hearing before the Commission on April 1955, at 10:00 A.M., Room 330 State Office Building, Denver, Colorado, after Notice of Hearing and Waiver of Service, as required by law, on the petition of Barnes and Brown to drill one well off the established spacing pattern.  

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 the drilling unit on which an exception is requested is located adjacent to a producing unit, and that the requirement to drill the well at the authorized location would be inequitable or unreasonable.

4.      That an exception to Order No. 26-2 should be allowed for a well to be drilled on the following described location:

Center of the Southwest Quarter of the Southwest Quarter of the Northeast Quarter (SW¼SW¼NE¼) of Section Twenty-nine (29), Township Two (2) North, Range Fifty-seven (57) West of the 6th P.M., Morgan County, Colorado,

and that said well should be the permitted oil or gas well for the drilling and spacing unit upon which it is located.

ORDER

IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED, that the following rules and regulations shall apply hereafter to the lands set forth in this Order, in addition to other applicable rules, regulations and orders of the Commission heretofore adopted and not in conflict herewith:

Rule 1.    That an exception shall be granted for a well to be drilled in the Center of the Southwest Quarter of the Southwest Quarter of the Northeast Quarter (SW¼SW¼NE¼) of Section Twenty-nine (29), Township Two (2) North, Range Fifty-seven (57) West of the 6th P.M., Morgan County, Colorado, and that said well shall be the permitted oil or gas well for the drilling and spacing unit upon which it is located.

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 rules and regulations.

ORDERED this 13th day of April, 1955.

OIL AND GAS CONSERVATION COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF COLORADO
	By  Annabel Hogsett, Secretary