The Advocate, LEGAL NOTICE - - - - 7 - RED RIVER BULL BAYOU FIELD 15-567 and 15-568 STATE OF LOUISIANA, OFFICE OF CONSERVATION, BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA In accordance with the laws of the State of Louisiana, and with particular reference to the provisions of Title 30 of Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950, a public hearing will be held in the Hearing Room, 1st Floor, LaSalle Building, 617 North 3rd Street, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, at 9:00 a.m. on TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2015, upon the application of CHESAPEAKE OPERATING, LLC. At such hearing the Commissioner of Conservation will consider evidence relative to the issuance of Orders pertaining to the following matters relating to the Haynesville Zone, Reservoir A, in the Red River Bull Bayou Field, DeSoto Parish, Louisiana. 1. To permit said applicant to drill, designate and utilize two (2) cross unit horizontal wells as alternate unit wells for HA RA SUC and HA RA SUD, at the respective locations and in the general manner shown on the plat submitted with the application, in exception to the spacing provisions of the 109-X Series of Office of Conservation Orders. 2. To find that the proposed alternate unit wells are necessary to efficiently and economically drain portions of the Haynesville Zone, Reservoir A, covered by HA RA SUC and HA RA SUD, which cannot be so drained by any existing wells within such units. 3. To provide that with respect to horizontal wells drilled to the Haynesville Zone, Reservoir A, within or to serve the HA RA SUC and HA RA SUD, where the horizontal portion of the well is cased and cemented back above the top of the Haynesville Zone, Reservoir A, the distance to any unit boundary and any offset well(s) should be calculated based on the distance to the nearest perforation in the well and not based on the penetration point or terminus, and that the proposed cross unit laterals should be perforated no closer than 330 from any unit boundary other than the common unit boundary between HA RA SUC and HA RA SUD. 4. To permit the unit operator of HA RA SUC and HA RA SUD to produce the unit allowable for each of the units from the respective unit wells, any alternate unit well, or from any combination thereof, at its discretion. 5. To find that unit production from the proposed cross unit horizontal alternate unit wells should be allocated to each of the units from which it produces in the same proportion as the perforated length of the lateral in each such unit bears to the total length of the perforated lateral as determined by an as drilled survey performed after such cross unit horizontal alternate unit wells are drilled and completed, and that unit production should continue to be shared on a surface acreage basis. 6. To continue in full force and effect, except to the extent contrary herewith, the pertinent provisions of Order No. 109-X-2, effective August 19, 2008, as amended and supplemented by the 109-X Series of Orders, the units created thereby and applicable Statewide Orders. 7. To consider such other matters as may be pertinent. The Haynesville Zone was defined in Order No. 109-X-2, effective August 19, 2008. A plat is available for inspection in the Office of Conservation in Baton Rouge and Shreveport, Louisiana. http://dnr.louisiana.gov/conshearings All parties having interest therein shall take notice thereof. BY ORDER OF: JAMES H. WELSH COMMISSIONER OF CONSERVATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT, IF YOU NEED ASSISTANCE AT THE HEARING, PLEASE CONTACT THE OFFICE OF CONSERVATION-ENGINEERING DIVISION AT P.O. BOX 94275, BATON ROUGE, LA 70804-9275 IN WRITING WITHIN TEN (10) WORKING DAYS OF THE HEARING DATE. 5171213-aug 28-1t - PUBLIC NOTICES/CONSERVATION
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