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400869672 06 69175 PDC ENERGY INC

1775 SHERMAN STREET - STE 3000

DENVER CO 80203 Venessa Langmacher 303 318-6102 303 831-3988 Venessa Langmacher Senior Regulatory Tech 2015-07-16T12:36:48.843-06:00 DRAFT venessalangmacher 2015-07-16T12:36:48.843-06:00 venessalangmacher venessa.langmacher@pdce.com 0.00000 venessa.langmacher@pdce.com venessalangmacher venessalangmacher 2015-07-16T13:03:43.937-06:00 400869672 Montoya, John 970 397-4124 05 123 39072 00 Becker Ranch 5J-103 NWNW 5 3N 64W 6 WELD Fee WATTENBERG 90750 N MECH. PROB N Y N N 40.261170 -104.580860 2013-07-17T00:00:00-06:00 Adam Kelly 1.3 The Becker Ranch 5J-103 (API 05-123-39072) will be replaced by the Becker Ranch 5J-303 (Doc #400868472). Diana Burns provided verbal approval for a request to plug lost hole, skid rig and drill replacement well on 7/15/2015. Please see attached email correspondence for details. john.montoya@state.co.us false 400869672 Reached a depth of 8,444’. When tripping in after changing the BHA PDC ran into issues not being able to get back to TD only making it to 8,000’. We changed the BHA two times to attempt to continue drilling with no improvement on wellbore stability. PDC is unable to move forward with drilling the well. Upon tripping out of the hole it was noticed fish was left in hole at 8,000’. Fish in hole - Bit, Bit Sub, Partial HWDP. 400869672 400869672 FORM 6 INTENT SUBMITTED 400869672.pdf 400869672 400869676 WELLBORE DIAGRAM Becker Ranch 5J-103 Final P&A Schematic.pdf 837127 400869672 400869707 OTHER Becker Ranch 5J-303 - Email approval.pdf 116567 400869672 0 50 6805 false 400869672 1 false 400869672 2 CASING 10 291 13 false 400869672 3 CASING 25 445 291 false 400869672 4 CASING 45 1018 741 false 400869672 5 CASING 220 5025 3850 false 400869672 6 CASING 50 6805 6455 false 400869672 7 false 400869672 8 false 400869672 9 false 400869672 10 false 400869672 11 false 400869672 12 false 400869672 13 false 400869672 14 false 400869672 15 false 400869672 16 false 400869672 1ST 9 5 8 7 26 7149 715 7149 0 CALC ACTUAL 400869672 SURF 13 1 2 9 5 8 36 925 780 930 0 CALC ACTUAL Thread was being aborted.