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

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

And Further Take Notice that the EUB has granted the request of EnCana Corporation (EnCana) and directed Desoto Resources Ltd. (Desoto) to respond to EnCana’s information requests in a manner that complies with the Rules by January 10, 2008. The written hearing will close on February 8, 2008.

Nature of the Application
On October 27, 2007, the Board approved Application No. 1484517 and issued Well Licence No. 0365128 to Desoto in accordance with Section 2.020 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 kilometres southwest of the Hamlet of Haynes.

On November 2, 2006, the EUB received a letter from EnCana requesting a review of Well Licence No. 0365128 under Section 40 of the Energy Resources Conservation Act. By 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
Further IR responses by Desoto	No later than 1:00 p.m. January 10, 2008
Rebuttal evidence filed	No later than 1:00 p.m. on January 17, 2008
Final argument filed	No later than 1:00 p.m. on January 31, 2008
Reply argument filed	No later than 1:00 p.m. on February 8, 2008

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 eight 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 December 14, 2007.

ALBERTA ENERGY AND UTILITIES BOARD
Giuseppa Bentivegna, Acting General Counsel