BEFORE THE OIL AND GAS CONSERVATION COMMISSION

OF THE STATE OF COLORADO

 

IN THE MATTER OF THE INVESTIGATION TO TAKE MEASURES TO PREVENT WASTE OF OIL AND GAS IN THE RANGELY FIELD IN THE STATE OF COLORADO

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CAUSE NO. 2

 

ORDER NO. 2-17

 

REPORT OF THE COMMISSION

 

This cause came on for hearing before the Oil and Gas Conservation Commission of the State of Colorado, at 10:00 A.M., January 25, 1954, 330 State Office Building, Denver, Colorado, pursuant to Notice of Hearing, upon application of the Phillips Petroleum Company to modify the Commission's Orders No. 2-13 and No. 2-15 heretofore entered in the above entitled matter, so as to convert and use its Levison No. 12 well as an additional gas injection well in the Weber Reservoir of the Rangely Field, and pursuant to Notice of Hearing, upon the Commission' s own motion, to consider the problems of all operators that have arisen as a result of gas injection operations in the Rangely Field. At the hearing, the California Company requested that Order No. 2-13 heretofore entered in the above entitled matter be modified so as to convert and use its Emerald No. 6 well as an additional gas injection well in the Weber Reservoir of the Rangely Field, and further requested that said Order No. 2-13 be modified to authorize a procedure for correcting gas injection imbalances accrued by compliance with Order No. 2-13.

 

FINDINGS

 

The Commission finds as follows:

 

1.      That due Notice of the time, place and purpose of the hearing in this matter was 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 following prescribed Order.

 

3.      That on August 11, 1953, after proper Notice and Hearing, the Commission entered its Order No. 2-13 in the above entitled matter, to become effective September 15, 1953, and thereafter amended the same on October 16, 1953, by its Order No. 2-14, and thereafter amended the same November 3, 1953 by its Order No. 2-15, and thereafter amended the same on January 7, 1954, by its Order No. 2-16.

 

4.      That Rule 3(g) of Order No. should be amended by adding an additional well, to-wit, the Phillips Petroleum Company's Levison No. 12 well as an additional gas injection well, so that all gas available for injection under the terms of Rule 3(b) of Order No. 2-8, produced from or attributable to all Phillips operated leases, may be injected.

 

5.      That Rule 3(b) of Order No. 2-13 should be amended by adding an additional well, to-wit, Emerald No. 6 well, as an additional gas injection well, so that all gas available for injection under the terms of Rule 3(b) of Order No. 2-8, produced from or attributable to the Emerald Oil Company lease, may be injected.

 

6.      That Rule 3 of Order No. 2-13 should be amended to permit a procedure for adjusting temporary injection volume imbalances between different injection wells.

 

7.      That the above findings as to injection wells are subject to the U.S. Geological Survey Jurisdiction, in the event U. S. Government lands are involved.

 

ORDER

 

NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS ORDERED that Rule 3 (g) of Order No. 2-13, as amended by Order No. 2-15, be amended to read as follows:

 

"All gas available for injection under the terms of Rule 3 (b) of Order No. 2-8 produced from or attributable to all Phillips operated leases, shall be injected by the Phillips Petroleum Company into the Levison No. 16 well, the M. B, Larson "D" No. 2-26 well, and the Levison No. 12 well, the gas to be divided into each such well as good operating practices may from time to time require."

 

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that Rule 3 (b) of Order No. 2-13 be amended to read as follows:

 

"All gas available for injection under the terms of Rule 3 (b) of Order No. 2-8 produced from or attributable to the Emerald Oil Company lease shall be injected by The California Company into the Emerald 34 well and the Emerald 6 well, the gas to be divided into each such well as good operating practices may from time to time require."

 

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that Rule 3 of Order No. 2-13 be amended by adding thereto paragraph 3 (k) as follows:

 

"Whenever substantial injection imbalances are accrued or result from operating dictates, any two operators may agree to authorize the plant operator to make an adjustment in its accounting, which will recognize the physical switching of the injection gas stream, according to such agreement, from the one operator's injection well to that of the other operator, and one operator may switch temporarily the injection gas stream from one of the operators injection wells to another. This procedure shall be accomplished in a manner that will result in as little interference as practicable with other operators’ injection, and shall be for such periods only as are necessary to accommodate operating dictates or to correct accrued imbalances. Any agreement between two or more operators as herein specified, shall be first submitted to the Director of the Commission for his approval."

 

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that this 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, rules and regulations.

 

ORDERED this 5th day of February, 1954, by the Oil and Gas Conservation Commis-sion of the State of Colorado.

 

OIL AND GAS CONSERVATION COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF COLORADO

 

 

By  Annabel Hogsett, Assistant Secretary