REPORT OF THE COMMISSION

This cause came on for hearing before the Commission on. May 20, 1975 at 9 A.M., in Room 532, State Services Building, Denver, Colorado, after giving Notice of Hearing as required by law, on the application of Bennie C. Griffin d/b/a/Griffin Oil and Gas, for an order granting an exception to the spacing pattern as established by Order No. 288-1 for the Lone Tree Field, Adams and Arapahoe Counties, Colorado.

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 regarding the original application.

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 on July 23, 1974, the Commission issued its Order No. 288-1 which, among other things, established 80-acre drilling units for the production of oil and asso-ciated hydrocarbons from the "J" Sand, with the permitted well for each drilling unit to be located in the center of the NE/4 and SW/4 of each quarter section, ;with a tolerance of 200 feet in any direction.

4. That evidence presented at the hearing indicates that wells drilled in the permitted locations, the SW/4SW/4 and the SW/4NW/4 Section 32, Township 3 South, Range 59 West, 6th P.M., resulted in dry holes, therefore, an exception should be granted for a well to be drilled in the center of the NW/4SW/4 of said Section 32, with a tolerance of 200 feet in any direction, and that it be the permitted well for the designated unit consisting of the W/2SW/4 of said Section 32.

5. That if a commercial well is drilled on the location as set forth in Finding 4 herein instead of on a location as provided for in Order No. 288-1, the Commis-sion should, at the request of interested persons, take such action as will offset any advan-tage which the person securing the exception may have over other producers by reason of the drilling of the well as an exception.

ORDER

NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS ORDERED, that an exception is hereby granted for a well to be drilled in the center of the NW/4SW/4 Section 32, Township 3 South., Range 59 West, 6th P.M., with a tolerance of 200 feet in any direction, and that it be the permitted well for the unit consisting of the W/2SW/4 of said Section 32; however, if a commercial well is drilled on the location as set forth above, instead of on a location as provided for in Order No. 288-1, the Commission shall, at the request of interested persons, take such action as will offset any advantage which the person securing the exception may have over h*her producers by reason of the drilling of the well as an exception.

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IT IS FURTHER ORDERED, that the provisions contained in the above order shall become effective herewith, ORDERED this 20th day of May, 1975,

THE OIL AND GAS CONSERVATION COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF COLORADO

By Frank J. Piro, Secretary

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