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 BADGER CREEK FIELD, ADAMS COUNTY, COLORADO

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CAUSE NO. 21

 

ORDER NO. 21-11

 

REPORT OF THE COMMISSION

 

This cause came on for hearing before the Commission on May 19, 1964, at 10 a.m., in Room 132, State Services Building, Denver, Colorado, after publication of Notice Hearing as required by law, on the application of the Sinclair Oil & Gas Company for an order permitting applicant to continue secondary recovery operations in the "D" sand reservoir of the Badger Creek Field by completion of the John J. Shea Well. No, 8 as an additional water injection well.

 

FINDINGS

The Commission finds as follows:

 

1.      That due notice of the time, place an purpose of the hearing has been given in all respects as required by law, and that all prerequisites to the granting hereof have been performed.

 

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 secondary recovery operations in the Badger Creek Field should be continued to completion in order to increase the ultimate recovery of oil and gas from said field, and that the completion of the John J. Shea Well No. 8, located 1650 feet from the north line and 1650 feet from the north line and 1650 feet from the east line of Section 14, Township 2 South, Range 57 West, 6th P.M., Adams County, Colorado, as an additional water injection well is essential for such purposes.

 

4.      That all owners of interest within one mile of said well were properly notified, and that the Commission received no objection to said proposed operation, and that testimony presented at the hearing indicates that injection of water in the John J. Shea Well No, 8 will not adversely affect the correlative rights of any owner within one mile of said well.

 

5.      That the use and operation of said well as a water injection well will increase the ultimate recovery of oil and gas from the "D" sand reservoir of the Badger Creek Field and prevent waste.

 

ORDER

 

NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS ORDERED, that the Sinclair Oil & Gas Company is hereby permitted and authorized to complete as an additional injection well the John J. Shea Well No. 8, located 1650 feet from the north line and 1650 feet from the east line of Section 14, Township 2 South, Range 57 West of the 6th P.M., Adams County, Colorado, for the purpose of injecting water into the "D" sand reservoir underlying said Badger Creek Field.

 

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED, that the Commission expressly reserves after notice and hearing, to alter, amend or repeal any and/or all of the above order.

 

ORDERED this 19th day of May 1964.

 

OIL AND GAS CONSERVATION COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF COLORADO

 

 

By  William R. Smith, Secretary