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 "D" SAND OF THE CHAPPEL FIELD, SEDGWICK COUNTY, COLORADO	) ) ) )	CAUSE NO. 75 ORDER NO. 75-5

REPORT OF THE COMMISSION

This cause came on for hearing before the Commission on December 18, 1962 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 the Graham-Michaelis Drilling Company for an order amending Order No. 75-1 by realignment of the two drilling units contained in Section 35, Township 12 North, Range 44 West, 6th P.M., so that the two 320-acre drilling units in said Section 35 would be defined as the E½ and the W½ of said section rather than the N½ and S½, as provided in said Order No, 75-1.

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 no geological or engineering testimony was presented at the hearing in this matter to support the application of the Graham-Michaelis Drilling Company for a realignment of two drilling units contained in Section 35, Township 12 North, Range 44 West, 6th P.M., in the Chappel Field, Sedgwick County, Colorado; and that such realignment could result in an abuse of correlative rights.

ORDER

NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS ORDERED, that the application of the Graham-Michaelis Drilling Company for a realignment of two drilling units contained in Section 35, Township 12 North, Range 44 West, 6th P. M., Sedgwick County, Colorado, is hereby denied.

ORDERED this 21st day of December 1962.

OIL AND GAS CONSERVATION COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF COLORADO
	By  D.V. Rogers, Secretary