NOTICE OF RESCEDULING OF HEARING
APPLICATION NO. 1464585
SUNCOR ENERGY INC.
GRANDE PRAIRIE FIELD
Take Notice that the Alberta Energy and Utilities Board (EUB/Board) had scheduled a public hearing of Application No.1464585 at the Quality Inn & Conference Centre, 11201 - 100 Avenue, Grande Prairie, Alberta, commencing on Monday, September 18, 2006, at the hour of 9:00 a.m. The Board received a request from interested parties to reschedule the hearing and has agreed to grant the request.
Therefore, Take Notice that the EUB will hold a public hearing of Application No. 1464585 at the Quality Inn & Conference Centre, 11201 - 100 Avenue, Grande Prairie, Alberta, commencing on Wednesday, November 8, 2006, at the hour of 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
Suncor Energy Inc. (Suncor) has applied pursuant to Section 2.020 of the Oil and Gas Conservation Regulations for a licence to drill a vertical level-2 sour gas well from a surface location in Legal Subdivision (LSD) 9 of Section 29, Township 73, Range 6, West of the 6th Meridian. The maximum hydrogen sulphide (H2S) concentration would be about 138.6 mole per kilomole (13.86 per cent). The cumulative drilling H2S release rate would be 0.4283 cubic metres per second (m3/s), with a corresponding emergency planning zone (EPZ) of 1.29 kilometres (km). The cumulative completion and producing H2S release rate would be 0.8833 m3/s, with a corresponding EPZ of 2.11 km. The purpose of the well would be to obtain gas production from the Montney Formation. The proposed well would be located about 5.3 km west of Sexsmith, Alberta.
Additional Information
To obtain additional information or a copy of the application, contact
Suncor Energy Inc.
112 – 4 Avenue. SW
Calgary, Alberta T2P 2V5
Attention: Tracey Wolsey
Telephone: (205) 793-2777
Fax: (403) 269-6203
A copy of the application is available for viewing at the following EUB offices:
EUB Information Services Grande Prairie Field Centre
Main Floor, 640-5 Avenue SW 9815 – 115 Street
Calgary, Alberta T2P 3G4 Grande Prairie, Alberta T8V 7R5
Telephone: (403) 297-8190 Telephone: (780) 538-5138
For information about EUB procedures, contact
Applications Branch, Facilities Applications Group
Attention: Cynthia Ravensdale
Telephone: (403) 297-2077
Fax: (403) 297-4117
E-mail: Cynthia.Ravensdale@gov.ab.ca
To File a Submission
Any person intending to make a submission with respect to the hearing of Application No. 1464585 shall file that submission as follows.
The applicant shall file a submission on or before 4:00 p.m., Monday, October 16, 2006. Send one copy of your submission to any person expressing interest in the application/hearing and ten copies to the EUB as provided below.
Any other person shall file a submission on or before 4:00 p.m., Monday, October 23, 2006. Send one copy of your submission to the applicant at the name and address above and ten copies to the EUB as provided below.
Cynthia Ravensdale, Applications Coordinator
Applications Branch, Facilities Applications Group
Alberta Energy and Utilities Board
640 - 5 Avenue SW
Calgary, Alberta T2P 3G4
Notes
Any submission filed shall contain the following:
(a) a concise statement indicating
(i) the manner in which the intervener’s rights may be directly and adversely affected by a decision of the Board on the proceeding,
(ii) the nature and scope of the intervener’s intended participation,
(iii) the disposition of the proceeding that the intervener advocates, if any,
(iv) the facts the intervener proposes to show in evidence,
(v) the reasons why the intervener believes the Board should decide in the manner that the intervener advocates, and
(vi) the intervener’s efforts, if any, to resolve issues associated with the proceeding directly with the applicant;
(b) the name, address in Alberta, telephone number, fax number and, if available, e-mail address of the intervener;
(c) if the intervener is represented by a representative, the name, address in Alberta, telephone number, fax number and, if available, e-mail address of the representative; and
(d) if the intervener is an unincorporated organization, the nature of the intervener’s membership.
If you have an interest in this matter, you are required to make a submission with respect to this application even if you have previously filed a submission with the Board or with Suncor on the application.
If there are no submissions received, this hearing may be cancelled and the EUB will continue to process the application without further notice or without a hearing.
Submissions relating exclusively to compensation for land usage are not dealt with by the EUB but may be referred to the Alberta Surface Rights Board.
In accordance with Section 12 of the Alberta Energy and Utilities Board Rules of Practice, all documents filed in respect of this proceeding must be placed on the public record unless otherwise ordered by the Board.
In accordance with Section 23.1 of the Alberta Energy and Utilities Board Rules of Practice, a person who intends to raise a question of constitutional law before the Board must give notice in accordance with Section 12 of the Administrative Procedures and Jurisdiction Act and its regulation.
In accordance with Section 38 of the Alberta Energy and Utilities Board Rules of Practice, witnesses must give evidence under oath or affirmation.
Issued at Calgary, Alberta, on August 21, 2006.
ALBERTA ENERGY AND UTILITIES BOARD
Douglas A. Larder, Q.C., General Counsel
