NOTICE OF HEARING
APPLICATION NO. 1289995
DONALDA FIELD
ALTACANADA ENERGY CORP.
Take Notice that examiners appointed by the Alberta Energy and Utilities Board (EUB) will hold a public hearing of Application No. 1289995 at the offices of the Board, 640 5th Avenue SW, Calgary, Alberta, on Tuesday, March 18, 2003, at 9:00 a.m. All interveners to this proceeding must be present at the commencement of the hearing to register their appearance.
Nature of the Application
AltaCanada Energy Corp. has applied pursuant to the Oil and Gas Conservation Act (the Act) for an order prescribing that all tracts within the drilling spacing unit comprising Section 23 of Township 41, Range 19, West of the 4th Meridian, be operated as a unit for the production of gas from all zones to the base of the Lea Park Formation excluding coal bed methane, through the well with the unique identifier of 00/13-23-041-19W4.
The applicant has requested, among other things, that costs and revenues under the pooling order be allocated on a tract area basis and that it be named the operator of the well to be produced under the order. In addition, the applicant requested that the maximum penalty allowed under the Act be applied to a tract's share of the costs of drilling the well to, and completing it in, the formation(s) named in the order, if the tract owner does not pay its share of those costs within 30 days of the later of the pooling order being issued, the tract owner being given written notice of its share of costs, and the well in question being placed on production.
Additional Information
To obtain additional information or a copy of the application, contact the applicant:
AltaCanada Energy Corp.
2100, 101 6th Avenue SW
Calgary, Alberta, T2P 3P4
Attention: B. Sinclair
Telephone: (403) 265-9090
For information about EUB procedures contact:
Applications Branch, Resources Applications Group
Attention: K. Fisher
Telephone: (403) 297-8490
To File A Submission
Any person intending to make a submission with respect to the hearing of Application
No. 1289995 shall file on or before March 4, 2003. Send two copies of your submission to the applicant at the name and address above, and twelve copies of the submission to:
K. Fisher, Application Coordinator
Applications Branch, Resources Applications, EUB
640 5th Avenue SW
Calgary AB T2P 3G4
Notes
Any submission filed shall contain information detailing:
(i) the desired disposition of the application,
(ii) the facts substantiating the position of the submitter, and
(iii) the reasons why the submitter believes that the EUB should
decide in the manner advocated.
In accordance with section 38 of the Alberta Energy and Utilities Board Rules of Practice, witnesses must give evidence under oath or affirmation.
If there are no objections received, this hearing may be cancelled and the EUB will continue to process the application without further notice or without a hearing.
Issued at Calgary, Alberta on February 13, 2003.
ALBERTA ENERGY AND UTILITIES BOARD
Douglas A. Larder, Associate General Counsel
