NOTICE OF HEARING
APPLICATIONS NO. 1555535 AND 1524978
CREW ENERGY INC.
STRACHAN FIELD

Take Notice that the Energy Resources Conservation Board (ERCB/Board) will hold a public hearing of Application No. 1555535 and 1524978 at the Walking Eagle Inn, 4819 - 45 Street, Rocky Mountain House, Alberta, commencing on Tuesday, August 26, 2008, at the hour of 9:00 a.m. All interveners to this proceeding must be present at the commencement of the hearing to register their appearance.

Nature of the Applications

Application No. 1555535
Crew Energy Inc. (Crew) has applied, pursuant to Section 2.020 of the Oil and Gas Conservation Regulations, for a licence to drill a well from a surface location in Legal Subdivision (LSD) 15 of Section 28, Township 37, Range 8, West of the 5th Meridian, to a projected bottomhole location in LSD 15-28-37-8W5M. The maximum hydrogen sulphide (H2S) concentration would be about 99.5 moles per kilomole (mol/kmol) (9.95 per cent) and the cumulative drilling, completion/servicing and suspended/producing H2S release rates would be 1.079 cubic metres per second with corresponding emergency planning zones (EPZs) of 2.42 kilometres (km). The purpose of the well would be to obtain gas production from the Leduc Formation.

Application No. 1524978
Crew has applied, pursuant to Part 4 of the Pipeline Act, for approval to construct and operate two pipelines. The purpose of the first pipeline would be to transport natural gas from the proposed well at LSD 15-28-37-8W5M to a pipeline tie-in point at LSD 7-33-37-8 W5M. The pipeline would be about 0.95 km in length with a maximum outside diameter of 114.3 millimetres (mm) and would transport natural gas with a maximum H2S concentration of 100 mol/kmol (10.0 per cent), with an associated EPZ of 0.45 km.

The second pipeline would transport fuel gas from the pipeline tie-in point at LSD 7-33-37-8W5M to the proposed well located at LSD 15-28-37-8W5M. The pipeline would be about 0.95 km in length with a maximum outside diameter of 60.3 mm and would have an H2S concentration of 0.0 mol/kmol (0.0 per cent).

The proposed well and pipelines would be located about 18.7 km southwest of Rocky Mountain House.
 
Additional Information
To obtain a copy of the application, contact
Crew Energy Inc.
1400, 425 - 1 Street SW
Calgary, Alberta  T2P 3L8
Attention: Paul Dever
Telephone: 403-231-3697
Fax: 403-266-6259

A copy of the record of this proceeding is available for viewing at the ERCB’s Calgary and Red Deer offices

ERCB Information Services   
Main Floor, 640 - 5 Avenue SW  
Calgary, Alberta  T2P 3G4   
Telephone: 403-297-8311  

Red Deer Field Centre 
Millennium Centre, 202, 4909 – 49 Street
Red Deer, Alberta  T4N 1V1
Telephone: 403-340-5454

For information about ERCB procedures, contact
Applications Branch, Facilities Applications Group
Attention: Rachelle Reid
Telephone: 403-355-4305
Fax: 403-297-4117
E-mail: rachelle.reid@ercb.ca

To File a Submission
Any person intending to make a submission with respect to the hearing of Applications No. 1555535 and 1524978 must file on or before 4:00 p.m., August 11, 2008. Send one copy of your submission to the applicant at the name and address above and ten copies to
Rachelle Reid, Applications Coordinator
Applications Branch, Facilities Applications Group
Energy Resources Conservation Board
640 - 5 Avenue SW
Calgary, Alberta  T2P 3G4

Notes
Any submission filed must 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 this application even if you have previously filed a submission with the Board or with Crew Energy Inc. on this application.

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

Submissions relating exclusively to compensation for land usage are not dealt with by the ERCB but may be referred to the Alberta Surface Rights Board.

In accordance with Section 13 of the Energy Resources Conservation Board Rules of Practice, all documents filed in respect of this proceeding must be placed on the public record. However, any party may make an application to the Board for confidentiality, pursuant to Section 13(2), and serve a copy of such request on the other parties involved in the hearing. The Board may grant a request for confidentiality on any terms it considers appropriate, subject to the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act.

In accordance with Section 25 of the Energy Resources Conservation 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 40 of the Energy Resources Conservation Board Rules of Practice, witnesses must give evidence under oath or affirmation.

Issued at Calgary, Alberta, on June 11, 2008.

ENERGY RESOURCES CONSERVATION BOARD
Patricia M. Johnston, Q.C., General Counsel