NOTICE OF HEARING
PROCEEDING NO. 1516389
SARG OILS LTD.
COUTTS FIELD

Take Notice that the Alberta Energy and Utilities Board (EUB/Board) will hold a public hearing of Proceeding No.1516389 at the Five Calgary 618 - 5 Avenue SW Calgary, Alberta, commencing on November 21, 2007, at the hour of 9:00 a.m. All parties registered for this proceeding must be present at the commencement of the hearing.

Nature of the Proceeding
Proceeding No. 1516389 arises out of a Board decision dated April 23, 2007, in which it was determined that Sarg Oils Ltd. was an affected party pursuant to Section 40(1) of the Energy Resources Conservation Act (the ERCA) in connection with the issuance of four abandonment orders, including an amendment, issued in October 2006 as described below.

In this proceeding, the Board will consider:

• What is Board's authority to issue the below-noted abandonment orders?
• Was Sarg Oils Ltd. properly named in the below-noted abandonment orders?
• If Sarg Oils Ltd. was properly named, are there any mitigating circumstances that require the Board to reconsider the issuance of the abandonment orders?

The particulars of these four abandonment orders, including an amendment to AD 2006-17 issued on October 19, 2006 (namely, AD 2006-17A), is summarized in the table below:

Abandonment Order No.	Subject of Abandonment Order	Location or Unique Well Identifier	Licence No.
AD 2006-17 and AD 2006-17A	An order respecting the abandonment of wells licensed to Sarg Oils Ltd.	A0/05-05-001-16W4 00/10-09-001-17W4 00/12-09-001-17W4 00/04-16-001-17W4	0029273 0117799 0019730 0032059
AD 2006-18	An order respecting the abandonment of wells licensed to Sarg Oils Ltd.	A3/03-04-001-16W4 C0/03-04-001-16W4 A2/04-04-001-16W4 D0/04-04-001-16W4	0053700 0016974 0053699 0053703
AD 2006-19	An order respecting the abandonment of a facility licensed to Sarg Oils Ltd.	00/03-04-001-16W4	F9
AD 2006-20	An order respecting the closure and abandonment of pipelines licensed to Sarg Oils Ltd.	From 12-09-001-17W4 to 04-16-001-17W4 From 04-04-001-16W4 to 04-04-001-16W4 From 03-04-001-16W4 to 04-04-001-16W4 From 03-04-001-16W4 to 04-04-001-16W4	6607 (Line No. 002) 19219 (Line No. 001) 19219 (Line No. 002) 19219 (Line No. 003)

The Corporate Compliance Group (CCG) of the EUB is a party to this Proceeding.

Additional Information
To obtain additional information regarding the above-noted abandonment orders, contact

EUB Corporate Compliance Group
Attention: Valerie Vogt
Telephone: (403) 297-8448
Fax: (403) 297-7168
E-mail: valerie.vogt@eub.ca

For information about EUB procedures, contact:

Applications Branch, Resources Applications Group
Attention: S. Mangat
Telephone: (403) 297-4151
Fax: (403) 297-2474
E-mail: sukh.mangat@eub.ca

To File a Submission

The Board has established the following filing deadlines for this hearing:

October 10, 2007 Submissions by CCG and Sarg Oils Ltd.
October 31, 2007 Replies by CCG and Sarg Oils Ltd.

Parties must send their electronic submission documents in Acrobat PDF format and bookmarked by e-mail or on CD to the 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 parties must send 12 complete paper copies of the submission documents to:

Sukh Mangat, Application Coordinator
Applications Branch, Resources Applications Group
Alberta Energy and Utilities Board
640 - 5 Avenue SW
Calgary, Alberta T2P 3G4

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 24, 2007.

ALBERTA ENERGY AND UTILITIES BOARD
Douglas A. Larder, Q.C., General Counsel