IN THE MATTER OF GENERAL RULES AND REGULATIONS WITH RESPECT TO THE CONSERVATION OF OIL AND GAS IN THE STATE OF COLORADO, AND RULES OF PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE PERTAINING THERETO AND IN PARTICULAR WITH REFERENCE TO RULE 323

BEFORE THE OIL AND GAS CONSERVATION COMMISSION

OF THE STATE OF COLORADO

IN THE MATTER OF THE INVESTIGATION TO TAKE MEASURES TO PREVENT THE WASTE OF OIL AND GAS IN THE "J" SAND OF THE PLUM BUSH CREEK FIELD, WASHINGTON COUNTY, COLORADO

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CAUSE NO. 57

ORDER NO. 57-6

REPORT OF THE COMMISSION

This cause came on for hearing before the Commission on July 22, 1958, at 10 a.m., in Room 330 State Office Building, Denver, Colorado, after publication of Notice of Hearing as required by law, on the application of the Continental Oil Company for an order approving a certain Unit Agreement covering unit operations in the Plum Bush Creek Field, Washington County, Colorado; and on the Commission's own motion to consider possible deletions of portions of said field.

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 on February 4, 1955, the Commission issued its Order No. 57-1 in Cause No. 57, Plum Bush Creek Field, establishing forty-acre drilling and spacing units for the production of oil and gas from the "J" sand, common source of supply, and defining the area to be known as the Plum Bush Creek Field. Subsequently, Orders No. 57-2 and 57-3 were issued extending the field limits. Subsequent development reveals that the following lands should be deleted from this field:

Township 2 South, Range 55 West, 6th P.M.
Section 19:	N½
Section 30:	S½ NE¼, SE¼
Section 31:	NE¼, S½

Township 2 South, Range 56 West, 6th P.M.
Section 24:	E½
Section 25:	NW¼

Township 3 South, Range 56 West, 6th P.M.
Sections 1 and 2: All

4. That the "J" sand underlying the Plum Bush Creek Field as set forth in the Unit Agreement presented by Applicant constitutes a common source of supply of oil and gas, and that said Unit Area is composed of the following lands in Washington County, Colorado, to-wit:

South Half (S½) of Section Nineteen (19); West Half, and North Half of Northeast Quarter (W½, N½ NE¼) of Section Thirty (30), and Northwest Quarter (NW¼) of Section Thirty-one (31), Township Two (2) South, Range Fifty-five (55) West, 6th P.M.; Northeast Quarter and South Half (NE¼, S½) of Section Twenty-five (25), and all of Sections Thirty-five (35) and Thirty-six (36), Township Two (2) South, Range Fifty-six (56) West, 6th P.M.

5. That the Unit Agreement, as presented by the Continental Oil Company, Unit Operator, is necessary to increase the ultimate recovery of oil and gas from said Unit Area, and should therefore be approved as being in the public interest for conservation.

6. That avoidable waste of oil and gas will be prevented by the operations proposed by Applicant, and the correlative rights of all parties in the Unit Area in the Plum Bush Creek Field, as herein defined, will not be adversely affected and will be reasonably protected under such plan of operation; and that in the interest of securing the greatest ultimate recovery of oil and gas from said pool, the prevention of waste and protection of correlative rights, this application should be granted.

ORDER

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

Rule 1. The lands set forth in Finding 3 above are hereby deleted from the Plum Bush Creek Field, leaving the following described area as the field limits, which area coincides with the Plum Bush Creek Unit Area, as defined in the Unit Agreement presented by Applicant:

Rule 2. The Unit Agreement covering the Plum Bush Creek Unit Area herein defined, and providing for unit operations in the "J" sand underlying said Plum Bush Creek Unit, is hereby approved.

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 22nd day of July, 1958.

OIL AND GAS CONSERVATION COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF COLORADO

By Annabel Hogsett, Secretary