BEFORE THE OIL AND GAS CONSERVATION COMMISSION
OF THE STATE OF COLORADO

IN THE MATTER OF THE PROMULGATION AND     )     CAUSE NO. 112
ESTABLISHMENT OF FIELD RULES TO GOVERN    )
OPERATIONS IN THE IGNACIO-BLANCO FIELD,    )     DOCKET NO. 0207-GA-06
LA PLATA COUNTY, COLORADO                              )

NOTICE OF HEARING

TO ALL INTERESTED PARTIES AND TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

On July 28, 2000, the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission entered Order No. 112-156 allowing an optional additional well to be drilled for production of gas from the Fruitland Coal seams for certain 320-acre drilling and spacing units in the Ignacio-Blanco Field.

In accordance with Well Permit Limitations in Order No. 112-156, “A Commission hearing shall be required before a drilling permit may be issued for a well site located within one and one-half (1½) miles of the outcrop contact between the Fruitland and Pictured Cliffs Formations. The purpose of the hearing shall be to address potential adverse impacts to the Fruitland outcrop.”

On May 22, 2002, Texaco Exploration & Production, Inc. by its attorney, filed with the Commission an Application for Permit-to-Drill the West Animas – University #9-3 Well, proposed to be located 1085 feet FSL and 2300 feet FWL in the SE¼ SW¼ of Section 9, Township 34 North, Range 9 West, N.M.P.M., within one and one-half miles of the outcrop contact between the Fruitland and Pictured Cliffs Formations.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the Oil and Gas Conservation Commission of the State of Colorado, pursuant to the above, has scheduled the above-entitled matter for hearing on:

Date:     Monday, July 15, 2002

Time:     10:00 a.m.

Place:     Suite 801, The Chancery Building
             1120 Lincoln Street
             Denver, CO 80203

In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if any party requires special accommodations as a result of a disability for this hearing, please contact Shannon Haliw, at (303) 894-2100 ext.114, prior to the hearing and arrangements will be made.

Pursuant to said hearing in the above-entitled matter at the time and place aforesaid, or at any adjourned meeting, the Commission will enter such orders as it deems appropriate and necessary to protect the health, safety and welfare of the public and to prevent the waste of oil and gas, either or both, in the operations of said field, and to carry out the purposes of the statute.

In accordance with Rule 509., any interested party desiring to protest the granting of the
application or to intervene should file with the Commission a written protest or a notice to intervene no later than July 1, 2002, briefly stating the basis of the protest or intervention. Such interested party shall, at the same time, serve a copy of the protest or notice to intervene to the person filing the application. An original and nine (9) copies shall be filed with the Commission. Pursuant to Rule 503.e., if a party who has received notice under Rule 503.b. wishes to receive further pleadings in the above-referenced matter, that party must file a protest or intervention in accordance with these rules. In accordance with the practices of the Commission, should no protests or interventions be filed in this matter by July 1, 2002, the Applicant may request that an administrative hearing be scheduled for the week of July 1, 2002.


IN THE NAME OF THE STATE OF COLORADO

OIL AND GAS CONSERVATION COMMISSION
OF THE STATE OF COLORADO



By _______________________
Patricia C. Beaver, Secretary

Dated at Suite 801
1120 Lincoln Street
Denver, Colorado 80203
June 6, 2002