BEFORE THE OIL AND GAS CONSERVATION COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF COLORADO
IN THE MATTER OF THE PROMULGATION AND ESTABLISHMENT OF FIELD RULES TO GOVERN OPERATIONS IN THE PIERCE FIELD, WELD COUNTY, COLORADO	) ) ) )	CAUSE NO. 104 ORDER NO. 104-5

REPORT OF THE COMMISSION

This cause came on for hearing before the Commission on July 25, 1961, at 10 a.m., in Room 320C, State Capitol, Denver, Colorado, after publication and service of Notice of Hearing, or appropriate waiver thereof, all as required by law, on the application of Woods & Deffke, Inc. for an exception to Order No. 104-1 for a well to be drilled 300 feet east and 300 feet south of the northwest corner of the SW¼ of Section 26, Township 8 North, Range 66 West of the 6th P.M.

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 the Commission takes official notice of the fact that drilling and spacing units of eighty acres were established for the Lyons formation of the Pierce Field, Weld County, Colorado, by Order No. 104-1, effective May 24, 1957.

4.      That Order No. 104-1 defines the limits of the Pierce Field and includes the SW¼ of Section 26, Township 8 North, Range 66 West of the 6th P.M., which described land is the subject of the application in this hearing.

5.      Thai subsequent to the effective date of Order No. 104-1, a well was drilled on and for the 80-acre drilling and spacing unit described as the W½SW¼, Section 26, Township 8 North, Range 66 West of the 6th P.M., Pierce Field; and that after said well produced 4504 barrels of oil from the Lyons formation, the well was reported as uneconomical to produce, and it was plugged and abandoned.

6.      That under 100-6-4(3), Colorado Revised Statutes 1953, as amended, only one well may be drilled and produced from a common source of supply on each drilling unit.

ORDER

IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED that the motion of the California Oil Company to dismiss the application of Woods & Deffke, Inc. is hereby granted.

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED, that this order does not preclude Woods & Deffke, Inc. from presenting evidence to the Commission for consideration of an order to delete applicant's land from the boundaries of the Pierce Field.

ORDERED this 25th day of July 1961.

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