The Alberta Energy and Utilities Board scheduled a public hearing of the subject applications at the Wheatland County Inn, located at 960 Westridge Road in Strathmore, Alberta, commencing on Tuesday, July 23, 2002, at 9:00 a.m. A request was made to adjourn the hearing and the Board determined that it is appropriate to grant that request .

Therefore Take Notice that the Alberta Energy and Utilities Board (EUB) will hold a public hearing of the subject applications at the Wheatland County Inn, located at 960 Westridge Road in Strathmore, Alberta, commencing on Tuesday, September 10, 2002, at 9:00 a.m. All interveners to this proceeding must be present at the commencement of the hearing to register their appearance.

Application No. 1073971 For Special Gas Well Spacing

EnCana Corporation (EnCana) has applied under the Oil and Gas Conservation Regulations and the Oil and Gas Conservation Act to reduce the drilling spacing units for the production of gas from the Belly River Group from one section to one quarter section with the target areas being Legal Subdivisions (LSD) 6, 8, 14, or 16, in Sections 19, 20, 21, 27 to 33 inclusive, and 35 of Township 24, Range 26, West of the 4th Meridian (W4M), and in Sections 6 and 7 of Township 25, Range 26, W4M. The project area is located approximately 10 kilometres west of Strathmore.

EnCana further proposes to establish a holding for the production of gas from the Belly River Group in the above-noted area. The applicant proposes that within the holding, a producing well shall be at least 400 metres (m) from each other well producing from the same pool, a producing well shall be at least 200 m from the boundary of the holding, only one well may be produced per quarter section from the same pool, and the well with the unique identifier of 00/04-19-024-26W4/0 be exempted from the buffer zone.

Applications No. 1249838, 1249839, 1249840, 1249843, 1249845, 1253483 For Well Licenses

EnCana has applied pursuant to Section 2.020 of the Oil and Gas Conservation Regulations to drill six (6) sweet natural gas wells. EnCana proposes to drill the wells vertically from the following surface locations:

Application No. 1249838: LSD 5-6-25-26 W4M
Application No. 1249839: LSD 6-27-24-26 W4M
Application No. 1249840: LSD 6-35-24-26 W4M
Application No. 1249843: LSD 2-29-24-26 W4M
Application No. 1249845: LSD 10-31-24-26 W4M
Application No. 1253483: LSD 9-19-24-26 W4M

The purpose of the wells would be to obtain production from the Edmonton and Belly River Formations.

Application No. 1249842, for a license to drill a well in LSD 9-20-24-26 W4M which was noted on the initial Notice of Hearing, has been withdrawn and will not be considered at the rescheduled hearing.

Application No. 1249836 For Natural Gas Pipeline System

EnCana has applied pursuant to Part 4 of the Pipeline Act to construct and operate a sweet gas gathering system consisting of nine (9) pipelines in Sections 19, 20, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 33, and 35-24-26 W4M and Section 6-25-26 W4M. The proposed pipelines would be approximately 7.3 kilometres in total length with an outside diameter of 141.3 millimetres, and would transport natural gas containing 0.0 per cent hydrogen sulphide from the proposed wells to a tie-in point at LSD 4-26-24-26 W4M.

EnCana has amended Application No. 1249836 by withdrawing the request for a license for a pipeline that would have tied into the well located in LSD 9-20-24-26 W4M, and by adding a request for a license for a pipeline to tie in an existing well located in LSD 14-20-24-26 W4M.

Additional Information

To obtain additional information or a copy of the applications, contact the applicant:

EnCana Corporation (formerly PanCanadian Resources)
150 9th Avenue SW, Calgary  Alberta, T2P 2S5
Attention: C. Cline
Telephone: (403) 294-4658 

A copy of the application is available for public viewing at the EUB's Calgary Office:

EUB Information Services
Main Floor, 640 5th Avenue SW, Calgary  Alberta, T2P 3G4
Telephone: (403) 297-8190 

For information about EUB procedures, contact:

Applications Branch, Resources Applications Group
Attention: K. Fisher
Telephone: (403) 297-8490
Fax: (403) 297-2474
E-mail: karine.fisher@gov.ab.ca

To File A Submission

Any person intending to make a submission with respect to the hearing of the subject applications shall file on or before 4:00 p.m. on Monday, August 26, 2002. Send two copies of your submission to the applicant at the name and address above, and 15 copies of the submission to:

K. Fisher
EUB, Applications Branch, Resources Applications Group
640 5th Avenue SW
Calgary, Alberta  T2P 3G4

Notes

Any submission filed shall contain information detailing: 

(i)                  the desired disposition of the application,

(ii)                the facts sustaining the position of the submitter,

(iii)               the reason why the submitter believes the EUB should decide in the manner advocated, and

(iv)              how the applications, if approved, may directly and adversely affect the submitter.

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 38 of the Alberta Energy and Utilities Board Rules of Practice, witnesses must give evidence under oath or affirmation.

Issued at Calgary, Alberta on July 10, 2002.

ALBERTA ENERGY AND UTILITIES BOARD
Michael J. Bruni, Q.C., General Counsel