AMENDED NOTICE OF WRITTEN HEARING
PROCEEDING NO. 1513307
DESOTO RESOURCES LTD.
JOFFRE FIELD

Take Notice that the Alberta Energy and Utilities Board (EUB/Board) will conduct a written hearing of Proceeding No. 1513307 in accordance with Section 45(1) of the Alberta Energy and Utilities Board Rules of Practice.

And Further Take Notice that the EUB has granted the request of Desoto Resources Ltd. (Desoto) to extend the time period allowed for responding to information requests to November 23, 2007.  The written hearing will close on December 21, 2007.

Nature of the Application
On October 27, 2006, the Board approved Application No. 1484517 and issued Well Licence No. 0365128 to Desoto in accordance with Section 2.0202 of the Oil and Gas Conservation Regulations, for a single vertical gas well from a surface location at Legal Subdivision (LSD) 11 of Section 13, Township 38, Range 25, West of the 4th Meridian, with no anticipated hydrogen sulfide concentration. The purpose of the well was to obtain gas from the Basal Belly River Sands.  The well was to be located approximately 6.8 kilometers southwest of the Hamlet of Haynes.

On November 2, 2006 the EUB received a letter from EnCana Corporation (EnCana) requesting a review of Well Licence No. 0365128 under Section 40 of the ERCA.  By a decision letter issued May 17, 2007, the Board granted the request for a review hearing and registered the hearing as Proceeding No. 1513307. The purpose of the hearing as stated in the May 17, 2007 decision letter, “is to determine whether Desoto has a valid and subsisting lease for the purpose of the issuance of well licence 0365128.” 

Additional Information
The above referenced application is available for viewing at the EUB’s Calgary office:
EUB Information Services
Main Floor, 640 – 5 Avenue SW
Calgary, Alberta T2P 3G4
Telephone: (403) 297-8190

For information about EUB procedures, contact
Applications Branch, Facilities, Applications Group
Attention: Kim Clayton
Telephone: (403) 355-4313
Fax: (403) 297-4117
E-mail: kim.clayton@eub.ca 

To File a Submission
The Board has established the following filing deadlines for registered parties.

Submissions	Filing Deadlines
Parties pre-file evidence	No later than 1:00 p.m. on October 12, 2007
Information Requests (IRs) filed by all parties.	No later than 1:00 p.m. on October 26, 2007
IR responses filed	No later than 1:00 p.m. November 23, 2007
Rebuttal evidence filed	No later than 1:00 p.m. on November 30, 2007
Final argument filed	No later than 1:00 p.m. on December 14, 2007
Reply argument filed	No later than 1:00 p.m. on December 21, 2007

Interested parties must send their electronic submission documents in Acrobat PDF format by e-mail or on CD to all other parties involved and to the EUB at the address listed below. Text documents must be converted from an electronic source or scanned to allow for a searchable image. In addition to the above-mentioned electronic versions, all interested parties must send 8 complete paper copies of the submission documents to
Kim Clayton, Applications Coordinator
Applications Branch, Facilities Applications Group
Alberta Energy and Utilities Board
640 – 5 Avenue SW
Calgary, Alberta T2P 3G4
E-mail: kim.clayton@eub.ca

Notes
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, subject to the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act.

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.

Issued at Calgary, Alberta on November 13, 2007.

ALBERTA ENERGY AND UTILITIES BOARD
Giuseppa Bentivegna, Acting General Counsel