BEFORE THE OIL AND GAS CONSERVATION COMMISSION
OF THE STATE OF COLORADO
IN THE MATTER OF THE PROMULGATION AND ) CAUSE NO. 188
ESTABLISHMENT OF FIELD RULES TO GOVERN )
OPERATIONS IN THE BRANDON FIELD, ) ORDER NO. 188-20
KIOWA COUNTY, COLORADO )
REPORT OF THE COMMISSION
This cause came on for hearing before the Commission at 8:30 a.m. on July 1, 1997, in Suite 801, The Chancery Building, 1120 Lincoln Street, Denver, Colorado, on the application of Western Operating Company and November First Company for an order allowing an additional well to be drilled on certain 80-acre drilling and spacing units in the Brandon Field, at the option of the operator for production of oil from the Mississippian Formation, with the subsequent permitted well to be no farther than 150 feet from the center of a undrilled governmental quarter-quarter section. The application also requests that the Director be authorized to grant exceptions to well locations provided owners of the contiguous and cornering tracts toward which the exception well location is proposed to be moved file a waiver or consent in writing to said exception.
FINDINGS
The Commission finds as follows:
1. Western Operating Company and November First Company, as applicants herein, are interested parties in the subject matter of the above-referenced matter.
2. Due notice of the time, place and purpose of the hearing has been given in all respects as required by law.
3. 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.
4. On October 19, 1965, the Commission issued Order No. 188-1, which, among other things, established 80-acre drilling and spacing units for the production of oil from the Mississippian Formation, each drilling unit being the W½ or E½ of each quarter section and the permitted well for each such drilling unit being located in the center of the NE¼ and SW¼ of each quarter section, with a tolerance of 150 feet in any direction. Subsequent orders issued in Cause No. 188 expanded the field and approved exceptions to permitted well locations for certain lands in Brandon Field. The below-listed lands were subject to the provisions of the Brandon Field:
Township 18 South, Range 45 West, 6th P.M.
Section 32: All
Section 33: SE¼, W½
Township 19 South, Range 45 West, 6th P.M.
Sections 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 15, 16, 17: All
5. Geologic and engineering evidence presented at the administrative hearing indicated that the porosity throughout the Mississippian Formation is not continuous, but is broken into discontinuous packages, and additional wells are necessary in order to recover all the hydrocarbons in the Mississippian Formation underlying the 80-acre drilling and spacing units in the below-listed lands in the Brandon Field.
Township 19 South, Range 45 West, 6th P.M.
Section 3: All
Section 4: E½SE¼, SW¼SE¼, SE¼SW¼, W½W½
Sections 8-10: All
Section 15: E½, E½NW¼, SW¼NW¼, SW¼
Section 17: All
6. That wells in the Brandon Field currently drain only twenty-five (25) acres and additional wells are needed to drain the 80 acre drilling and spacing units.
7. That at the time of the administrative hearing, Western Operating Company and November First Company agreed to be bound by oral order of the Commission.
8. Based on the facts stated in the application, having been heard by the Hearing Officer who recommends approval of the application, and having received no protests, the Commission should approve the request and amend Order No. 188-1 to allow an additional well to be drilled on the 80-acre drilling and spacing units for the lands described in Finding No. 5 in the Brandon Field, at the option of the operator for production of oil from the Mississippian Formation, with the subsequent permitted well to be no farther than 150 feet from the center of a undrilled governmental quarter-quarter section. The Commission should also authorize the Director to grant exceptions to well locations provided owners of the contiguous and cornering tracts toward which the exception well location is proposed to be moved file a waiver or consent in writing to said exception.
O R D E R
NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS ORDERED that Order No. 188-1 shall be amended to allow an additional well to be drilled on the 80-acre drilling and spacing units for the below-listed lands in the Brandon Field, at the option of the operator for production of oil from the Mississippian Formation, with the subsequent permitted well to be no farther than 150 feet from the center of a undrilled governmental quarter-quarter:
Township 19 South, Range 45 West, 6th P.M.
Section 3: All
Section 4: E½SE¼, SW¼SE¼, SE¼SW¼, W½W½
Sections 8-10: All
Section 15: E½, E½NW¼, SW¼NW¼, SW¼
Section 17: All
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED, that the Director shall grant exceptions to well locations provided owners of the contiguous and cornering tracts toward which the exception well location is proposed to be moved file a waiver or consent in writing to said exception.
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED, that the provisions contained in the above order shall become effective forthwith.
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 orders.
ENTERED this day of July, 1997, as of July 1, 1997.
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
July 19, 2018