BEFORE THE OIL AND GAS CONSERVATION COMMISSION

OF THE STATE OF COLORADO

 

IN THE MATTER OF THE PROMULGATION                                )           CAUSE NO. 191

AND ESTABLISHMENT OF FIELD RULES TO                             )

GOVERN OPERATIONS IN THE MAM CREEK FIELD,                 )           DOCKET NO. 0304-SP-03

GARFIELD COUNTY, COLORADO                                              )

 

                                                                          NOTICE OF HEARING

 

TO ALL INTERESTED PARTIES AND TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

 

            On July 19, 1982, the Commission issued Order No. 191-3 which established 640-acre drilling and spacing units for the production of gas from the Mesaverde Formation, including the Cozzette and Corcoran members, with the permitted well to be located no closer than 990 feet from the unit boundary underlying certain lands in the Mam Creek Field.  The spaced area was extended by Order No. 191-4 issued February 22, 1994 and the below-listed lands are subject to the orders:

 

Township 6 South, Range 92 West, 6th P.M.

Sections 22 thru 27:  All

Sections 35 and 36:  All

 

            On December 2, 2002, the Commission issued Order No. 191-6 which removed Section 23, Township 6 South, Range 92 West, 6th P.M. from the provisions of Order Nos. 191-3 and 191-4 and confirmed oil and gas operations on those lands would be subject to the Rules and Regulations of the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, including Rule 318 for well locations.

 

            On March 3, 2003, Calpine Natural Gas Company (“Calpine”) filed with the Commission a verified Application for an order to vacate Order Nos. 191-3 and 191-4 insofar as they apply to the below-listed lands, placing the lands under the provisions of the Rules and Regulations of the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, and allow the location of wells to produce gas and associated hydrocarbons from the Mesaverde Formation, including but not limited to the Cozzette and Corcoran Formations, subject to Commission Rule 318.  No wells have been drilled in the subject lands.  Calpine also requests that the Director be allowed to grant exceptions to the well location requirement in accordance with Rule 318. 

 

Township 6 South, Range 92 West, 6th P.M.

Section 35: All

 

            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, April 21, 2003

                       

                        Time:                                        10:00 a.m.

 

                        Place:                                       City of Arvada Council Chambers

                                                                        8101 Ralston Rd.

                                                                        Arvada, CO 80002

 

            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 Audra Serlet 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 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 on the application should file with the Commission a written protest or intervention no later than April 7, 2003, briefly stating the basis of the protest or intervention.  Such interested party shall, at the same time, serve a copy of the protest or intervention to the person filing the application.  An original and nine (9) copies shall be filed with the Commission (Rule 503.f.).  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 April 7, 2003, the Applicant may request that an administrative hearing be scheduled for the week of April 7, 2003.

 

 

                        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                                             Attorney for Applicant:

1120 Lincoln Street                                            Stephen J. Sullivan

Denver, Colorado 80203                                      Welborn, Sullivan, Meck & Tooley, P.C.

March 21, 2003                                                  821 17th Street, Suite 500

                                                                        Denver, CO 80203

                                                                        (303) 830-2500