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2005

NOTICE OF APPLICATION
APPLICATION NO. 1408591
CONOCOPHILLIPS CANADA LIMITED
MEDICINE RIVER FIELD

Take Notice that the Alberta Energy and Utilities Board (EUB) has received Application

No.1408591. This notice is to advise of the filing of this application. Note that if no submissions are received on or before Friday, August 12, 2005, relating to the application, the EUB may continue to process this application without further notice.

Nature of the Application

ConocoPhillips Canada Limited has applied pursuant to section 80 of the Oil and Gas Conservation Act (the Act) for an order prescribing that all tracts within the drilling spacing unit comprising Section 17 of Township 39, Range 3, West of the 5th Meridian, be operated as a unit for the production of gas from the Cardium Formation, through the well with the unique identifier of 02/05-17-039-03W5.

The applicant requested, among other things, that costs and revenues under the pooling order be allocated on a tract area basis, and that ConocoPhillips Canada Resources Corp. be named the operator of the well to be produced. In addition, the applicant requested that the maximum penalty allowed under the Act be applied to the share of the costs of drilling the well to and completing it in the formation 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:

ConocoPhillips Canada Limited
1600, 401 9 Avenue SW
Calgary Alberta T2P 2H7
Attention: N. Rubeniuk
Telephone: (403) 233-4018
Fax: (403) 213-5209

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: K. Fisher
Telephone: (403) 297-8490
Fax: (403) 297-2474
E-mail: karine.fisher@gov.ab.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 August 12, 2005. Send one copy of your submission to the applicant at the name and address above and either an electronic copy by email to karine.fisher@gov.ab.ca or 12 paper copies to

K. Fisher, 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.

Any statements filed regarding this application become part of the public record and are accessible by the public.

Issued at Calgary, Alberta, on July 25, 2005.

ALBERTA ENERGY AND UTILITIES BOARD

Douglas A. Larder, General Counsel

 

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