116-4

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 "D" SAND OF THE BIJOU AREA, MORGAN COUNTY, COLORADO

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CAUSE NO. 116

ORDER NO. 116-4

REPORT OF THE COMMISSION

This cause came on for hearing before the Commission on December 19, 1958, at 10 a.m., in Room 243, State Capitol, Denver, Colorado, after publication of Notice of Hearing as required by law, on the application of Clyde G. Kissinger for an exception to Order No. 116-3, for a well to be drilled in the Southwest Quarter of Section 2, Township 4 North, Range 60 West, 6th P.M.; and on the Commission’s own motion to consider testimony relating to the redefining of the limits of the Orchard Field, Cause No. 90, and the Bijou Area, Cause No. 116; and to consider other related matters concerning drilling and spacing units within the above areas; and to consider the inclusion of all or portions of the E½ NW¼ of Section 1., Township 4 North, Range 60 West, 6th P.M., Morgan County, Colorado, in either the Orchard Field or the Bijou Area.

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 August 19, 1958, the Commission issued its Order No. 116-3 in Cause No. 116, Bijou Area, which, among other things, established drilling and spacing units for the production of oil and gas in the "D" sand, common source of supply, and defined the area to be known as the Bijou Area.

4. That subsequent development reveals that the E½ SW¼ of Section 2, Township 4 North, Range 60 West, 6th P.M., Morgan County, Colorado, should be deleted from the Bijou Area.

5. That testimony presented at the hearing reveals that the location which Applicant requested as an exception to Order No. 116-3 lies within the area herein deleted from the Bijou Area, which area was found to properly belong in the Orchard Field.

ORDER

NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS ORDERED, that the East Half of the Southwest Quarter (E½ SW½) of Section Two (2), Township Four (4) North, Range Sixty (60) West, 6th P.M., Morgan County, Colorado, is hereby deleted from the area described in Order No. 116-3, Cause No. 116, Bijou Area, leaving the limits of the Bijou Area as follows:

Sections Five (5), Six (6), Seven (7), Eight (8), and the North Half (N½) of Sections Seventeen (17) and Eighteen (18), Township Four (4) North, Range Fifty-nine (59) West of the 6th P.M.;

Section One (1); East Half (E½) and East Half of the Northwest Quarter (E½ NW½) of Section Two (2); East Half (E½) of Section Eleven (11); all of Section Twelve (12); North Half (N½) of Section Thirteen (13), and Northeast Quarter (NE¼) of Section Fourteen (14), Township Four (4) North, Range Sixty (60) West of the 6th P.M.;

Section Thirty-one (31), Township Five (5) North, Range Fifty-nine (59) West of the 6th P.M.; and

South Half (S½) of Section Twenty-six (26); Southeast. Quarter (SE¼) of Section Twenty-seven (27); East Half (E½) of Section Thirty-four (34), and all of Section Thirty-five (35), Township Five (5) North, Range Sixty (60) West of the 6th P.M.,

all in Morgan County, Colorado.

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 order.

ORDERED this 19th day of December, 1958.

OIL AND GAS CONSERVATION COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF COLORADO

Annabel Hogsett, Secretary