NOTICE OF APPLICATION
APPLICATION NO. 1560427
QUICKSILVER RESOURCES CANADA INC.
JOFFRE FIELD
Take Notice that the Alberta Energy Resources Conservation Board (ERCB) has received Application No. 1560427. This notice is to advise of the filing of this application. Note that if no submissions are received on or before Monday, April 14, 2008, relating to the application, the ERCB may continue to process this application without further notice.
Nature of the Application
Quicksilver Resources Canada Inc. has applied pursuant to Section 80 of the Oil and Gas Conservation Act (OGCA) for an order prescribing that all tracts within the drilling spacing unit comprising Section 33 of Township 38, Range 24, West of the 4th Meridian, be operated as a unit for the production of gas and coalbed methane from all zones from surface to the base of the Lea Park Formation, through a well to be drilled in Legal Subdivision 6 of the section, and through up to three other wells that may be drilled in the section.
The applicant has requested 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(s) to be produced. In addition, the applicant has requested that the maximum penalty allowed under the OGCA be applied to a tract owner’s share of the costs of drilling the well to, and completing it in, the formation named in the order if the tract owner does not pay the costs within 30 days of the later of the pooling order being issued, the tract owner being notified in writing of its share of actual costs, or the well commencing production.
Additional Information
To obtain additional information or a copy of the application, contact
Quicksilver Resources Canada Inc.
2000, 125 - 9 Avenue SE
Calgary, Alberta T2G 0P8
Attention: Ms. Catherine Hiscocks
Telephone: 403-538-5867
Fax: 403-262-6115
A copy of the application is available for viewing at the ERCB’s web site at www.ercb.ca on the Integrated Application Registry (IAR) or at the ERCB’s Calgary office
ERCB Information Services
Main Floor, 640 - 5 Avenue SW
Calgary, Alberta T2P 3G4
Telephone: 403-297-8190
For information about ERCB procedures, contact
Applications Branch, Resources Applications Group
Attention: Jan Rempel
Telephone: 403-355-4593
Fax: 403-297-2474
E-mail: Jan.Rempel@ercb.ca
To File a Submission
If you have an interest in this application and you wish to file a submission, please state in writing your reasons for filing by no later than Monday, April 14, 2008. Send one copy of your submission to the applicant at the name and address above and another copy to
Jan Rempel, Applications Coordinator
Applications Branch, Resources Applications Group
Energy Resources Conservation Board
640 - 5 Avenue SW
Calgary, Alberta T2P 3G4
Notes
Any submission filed must 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;
(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 ERCB or with Quicksilver Resources Canada Inc. on this application.
Submissions relating exclusively to compensation for land usage are not dealt with by the ERCB but may be referred to the Alberta Surface Rights Board.
In accordance with Section 13 of the Energy Resources Conservation Board Rules of Practice, all documents file 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 Privacy Act.
Issued at Calgary, Alberta, on March 20, 2008.
ENERGY RESOURCES CONSERVAITON BOARD
Patricia M. Johnston, Q.C., General Counsel