NOTICE OF HEARING
APPLICATIONS NO.  1492956 AND 1492957
HIGHPINE OIL & GAS LIMITED
PEMBINA FIELD

Take Notice that the Alberta Energy and Utilities Board (EUB/Board) will hold a public hearing of Applications No. 1492956 and 1492957 at the Causeway Bay Westwinds, 4225 – 50 Street, Drayton Valley, Alberta, commencing on Wednesday, November 7, 2007 at the hour of 1:00 p.m. All interveners to this proceeding must be present at the commencement of the hearing to register their appearance.

Nature of the Applications
Highpine Oil & Gas Limited (Highpine) has applied pursuant to Section 2.020 of the Oil and Gas Conservation Regulations (OGCR) for licences to drill two Level 2 critical wells from a surface location in Legal Subdivision (LSD) 1, Section 32, Township 48, Range 8, West of the 5th Meridian to projected bottom hole locations in LSD 14-29-48-8W5M and LSD 16-29-48-8W5M. The maximum hydrogen sulphide (H2S) concentration expected to be encountered in the wells would be approximately 300 moles per kilomole (30 per cent) and the cumulative drilling H2S release rate would be 5.0 cubic metres per second with a corresponding emergency planning zone of 6.87 kilometres (km). The purpose of the wells would be to obtain crude oil from the Nisku formation. The proposed wells would be located approximately 6.0 km north and west of Violet Grove.

Additional Information
To obtain additional information or a copy of the applications, contact
Highpine Oil & Gas Limited
Suite 4000, 150 – 6 Avenue SW
Calgary, Alberta T2P 3Y7
Attention: Jerilyn McLeod
Telephone: (403) 508-9559
Fax: (403) 264-3396

A copy of the applications is available for viewing at the EUB’s Calgary office and the EUB’s Drayton Valley Field Centre:
EUB Information Services
Main Floor, 640 – 5 Avenue SW
Calgary, Alberta T2P 3G4
Telephone: (403) 297-8311
 
Drayton Valley Field Centre
5005 – 61 Street
Drayton Valley, Alberta T7A 1S3
Telephone: (780) 542-5182

For information about EUB procedures, contact
Applications Branch, Facilities Applications Group
Attention: Jennifer FitzGerald
Telephone: (403) 297-4264.
Fax: (403) 297-4264
E-mail: jennifer.fitzGerald@eub.ca

To File a Submission
Any person intending to make a submission with respect to the hearing of Applications No. 1492956 and 1492957 shall file on or before 4:00 p.m., October 23, 2007. Send one copy of your submission to the applicant at the name and address above and ten copies to
Jennifer FitzGerald, Applications Coordinator
Applications Branch, Facilities Applications Group
Alberta Energy and Utilities Board
640 – 5 Avenue SW
Calgary, Alberta T2P 3G4

Notes
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; and

(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 these applications even if you have previously filed a submission with the Board or with Highpine on these applications.

If there are no submissions received, this hearing may be cancelled and the EUB will continue to process the applications without further notice or without a hearing.

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 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 29, 2007.

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