NOTICE OF APPLICATION
APPLICATION NO. 1526665
ANDERSON ENERGY LTD.
MINNEHIK BUCK-LAKE FIELD
Take Notice that the Alberta Energy and Utilities Board (EUB) has received Application
No.1526665. This notice is to advise of the filing of this application. Note that if no submissions are received on or before November 12, 2007, relating to the application, the EUB may continue to process this application without further notice.
Nature of the Application
Anderson Energy Ltd. (AEL), has applied pursuant to Section 80 of the Oil and Gas Conservation Act (the OGCA) for an order prescribing that all tracts within the drilling spacing unit comprising Section 10 of Township 45, Range 5, West of the 5th Meridian, be operated as a unit for the production of gas from all zones to the base of the Edmonton Group, through a well to be drilled in Legal Subdivision 3.
The applicant requested, among other things, 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 to be produced. In addition, the applicant 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 formations 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:
Anderson Energy Ltd.
640 – 5 Avenue SW
Calgary Alberta T2P 3G4
Attention: S. Drinnan
Telephone: (403) 206-6015
Fax: (403) 261-2792
A copy of the application is available for viewing on the EUB‘s Web site at www.ercb.ca on the Integrated Application Registry (IAR).
For information about EUB procedures, contact:
Applications Branch, Resources Applications Group
Attention: A. Lung
Telephone: (403) 297-5361
Fax: (403) 297-2474
E-mail: andrew.lung@eub.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 November 12, 2007. Send one copy of your submission to the applicant at the name and address above and either an electronic copy by
e-mail to andrew.lung@eub.ca or 12 paper copies to
A. Lung, Application Coordinator
Applications Branch, Resources 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;
(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 EUB or with the applicant.
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, subject to the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act.
Issued at Calgary, Alberta, on October 24, 2007.
ALBERTA ENERGY AND UTILITIES BOARD
Douglas A. Larder, Q.C., General Counsel