BEFORE THE OIL AND GAS CONSERVATION COMMISSION

OF THE STATE OF COLORADO

 

IN THE MATTER OF THE INVESTIGATION TO TAKE MEASURES TO PREVENT WASTE OF OIL AND GAS IN THE FORT MORGAN FIELD, MORGAN COUNTY, COLORADO

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CAUSE NO. 49

 

ORDER NO. 49-5

 

REPORT OF THE COMMISSION

 

This cause came on for hearing before the Commission on August 18, 1959, at 10:00 a.m., in the Game Room of the Albany Hotel, Denver., Colorado, after publication of Notice of Hearing as required by law, on the application of J.M. Loffland, Jr., as Unit Operator of the "D" Sand Unit Area of the Fort Morgan Field, for an order granting an exception to the spacing pattern established by Order No. 49-1, issued November 26, 1954, for a well to be drilled 2080 feet from the East section line and 100 feet from the North section line of Section 25, Township 3 North, Range 58 West, 6th P.M., Morgan County, 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.

 

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 Section 25, Township 3 North, Range 58 West of the 6th P.M., Morgan County, Colorado, is included in the area governed by the Commission's Order No. 49-4, issued September 26, 1958; and that said order, among other things, approved a Unit Agreement for the development and operation of the "D" sand reservoir underlying said area; and that said Unit Agreement provides for the following method of operation:

 

"The parties hereto holding interests in the unit area do, to the extent of their interests therein, hereby unitize, consolidate and pool, as of the effective date of this agreement, their interests respectively in and to all tracts within the unit area for all purposes of developing, operating, producing, pressure regulation and maintenance and re-cycling operations in the same manner and with like effect as if the unit area comprised by a single tract covered by a single oil and gas lease and without regard to the boundary lines established by separate ownership of any interest in the several tracts, provided that the present right, if any, of each party hereto to take his or its proportionate part of unitized substances in kind shall not be affected by this agreement."

 

4.      That based on all available geological and engineering information, and in order to increase the ultimate recovery of oil from the "D" sand of the Fort Morgan Field, and in order to prevent waste of oil and gas, an exception to the spacing pattern established by Order NO. 49-1 should be allowed for a well to be drilled on the following described location:

 

2080 feet from the East section line and 100 feet from the North section line of Section 25, Township 3 North, Range 58 West of the 6th P.M., Morgan County, Colorado.

 

ORDER

 

NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS ORDERED, that an exception to the spacing pattern established by Order No. 49-1 is hereby granted for a well to be drilled Two Thousand Eighty (2080) feet from the East section line and One Hundred (100) feet from the North section line of Section Twenty-five (25), Township Three (3) North, Range Fifty-eight (58) West of the 6th P.M., Morgan County, Colorado.

 

ORDERED this 28th day of August, 1959.

 

OIL AND GAS CONSERVATION COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF COLORADO

 

 

By  Annabel Hogsett, Secretary