Take Notice that the Alberta Energy and Utilities Board (EUB) may continue to process this application without further notice if no submissions are received on or before August 31, 2004.

Shell Canada Limited (Shell) has submitted an application to the EUB pursuant to Section 2.020 of the Oil and Gas Conservation Regulations for a licence to drill a directional level-3 critical sour gas well from a surface location in Legal Subdivision (LSD) 2 of Section 32, Township 8, Range 3, West of the 5th Meridian to a bottomhole location of LSD 13-28-8-3W5M. The maximum hydrogen sulphide (H₂S) content would be approximately 287.6 moles per kilomole (28.76 per cent) and the cumulative drilling H₂S release rate would be 13.64 cubic metres per second (m³/s). During the completion and servicing of the proposed well, the release rate would be 10.75 m³/s and the suspended/producing release rate would be 3.00 m³/s. The corresponding calculated emergency planning zones would be 15.77 kilometres (km) for the drilling release rate, 13.01 km for the completion/servicing release rate, and 4.85 km for the suspended/ producing release rate. Shell has received an interim approval from the EUB for a reduced EPZ of 8.3 km. The purpose of the well is to obtain gas production from the Mount Head, Livingstone, and Palliser Formations. Shell has also applied for a flare permit to flare gas from the Devonian Wabamun and Mississippian Livingstone Formations during the initial well stimulation, cleanup, and testing operations. The proposed well would be located about 9.5 km northeast of Blairmore.

The progress of the applications may be monitored on the EUB's Integrated Application Registry (IAR) system on the EUB's Web site at www.ercb.ca

To obtain additional information or a copy of the application, contact

Shell Canada Limited
400 – 4 Avenue SW
Calgary Alberta T2P 2H5
Attention: Natalie Sanders
Telephone: (403) 691-4489
Fax: (403) 269-7948
E-mail: Natalie.Sanders@shell.ca

A copy of this application is also available for public viewing at the following location:

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: Evan Knox
Fax: (403) 297-4117
Telephone: (403) 297-6848
E-mail: evan.knox@gov.ab.ca

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 August 31, 2004. Send one copy of your submission to the applicant at the name and address above and another copy to

Evan Knox, Applications Coordinator
Applications Branch, Facilities Applications Group
Alberta Energy and Utilities Board
640 - 5 Avenue SW
Calgary, Alberta T2P 3G4

Any submission filed shall 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 unicorporated 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 Board or with Shell on this application.

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.

Issued at Calgary, Alberta, on July 30, 2004.

ALBERTA ENERGY AND UTILITIES BOARD

Douglas A. Larder, General Counsel