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Home My WebLink AboutCO 327 OConservation Order Cover Pag~ XHVZE This page is required for administrative purposes in managing the scanning process. It marks the extent of scanning and identifies certain actions that have been taken. Please insure that it retains it's current location in this tile. ,_~ ~_ Conservation Order Category Identifier Organizing ~o.,,> .RE~C~,...---'~~ DIGITAL DATA OVERSIZEDplotter/scanner)(Scannable with large ~ Color items: [] Diskettes, No: [] Maps: [] Grayscale items: D Other, No/Type [] Other items D Poor Quality Originals: OVERSIZED (Not suitable for [] Other: plotter/scanner, may work with 'log' scanner) Logs of vadous kinds [] Other NOTES: Scanning Preparation TOTAL PAGES Production Scanning Stage 1 PAGE COUNT FROM SCANNED DOCUMENT: ! O PAGE COUNT MATCHES NUMBER IN SCANNING PREPARATION: _~ YES ~ NO Stage 2 IF NO IN STAGE 1, PAGE(S) DISCREPANCIES WERE FOUND: YES NO (SCANNING IS COMPLETE AT THIS POINT UNLESS EPECIAL ATTENTION IS REQUIRED ON AN INDNIDUAL PAGE BASIS DUE TO QUALITY, GRAYECALE OR COLOR IMAGES) General Notes or Comments about this Document: Conse~OrdCwPg.wpd • INDEX CONSERVATION ORDER NO. 327 Badami No. 3 1.) December 17, 1993 BP Exploration Alaska, Inc. Requests Spacing Exception 2.) December 21, 1993 Notice of Public Hearing, Affidavit of Publication Conservation Order No. 327 STATE OF ALASKA ALASKA OIL AND GAS CONSERVATION COMMISSION 3001 Porcupine Drive Anchorage Alaska 99501-3192 Re: THE APPLICATION OF BP EXPLORATION (ALASKA) INC. for an order granting an exception to spacing requirements of Title 20 AAC 25.055 to provide for the drilling of the BP ) Conservation Order No. 327 ) ) ) BP Exploration (Alaska), Inc. ) Badami No. 3 ) ) Badami No. 3 exploratory oil well ) January 5, 1994 IT APPEARING THAT: I · BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc. submitted an application dated December 17, 1993 requesting exception to 20 AAC 25.055(a)(1) to allow drilling the BP Badami No. 3 exploratory oil well closer than 500 feet to a drilling unit boundary. Notice of opportunity for hearing was published in the Anchorage Daily News on December 21, 1993 pursuant to 20 AAC 25.540. 3. No protests to the applications were received. FINDINGS: I · The BP Badami No. 3 well as proposed will be a deviated hole drilled from a surface location 1251' from the north line (FNL) and 1388' from the east line (FEL) of Section 10, T9N, R20E, Umiat Meridian (UM) to a location 2416' FNL and 3688' FEL of Section 3, T9N, R20E, UM. . Offset owners Conoco Inc. and Petrofina Delaware Inc. have been duly notified. · An exception to 20 AAC 25.055(a)(1) is necessary to allow drilling of this well. CONCLUSION: Granting a spacing exception to allow drilling of the BP Badami No. 3 exploratory oil well as proposed will not result in waste nor jeopardize correlative rights. Conservation Ord!r No. January 5, 1994 Page 2 327 NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS ORDERED: BP Exploration (Alaska), Inc.'s application for exception to 20 AAC 25.055 for the purpose of drilling the Badami No. 3 well is approved as proposed. DONE at Anchorage, Alaska and dated January 5, 1994. David W. Johnst, A] Oil and Ga Conservation Commission Russell A. Douglass, Cq~missioner Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission Tt~ckerman Babcock, Commissioner Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission AS 31.05.080 provides that within 20 days after receipt of written notice of the entry of an order, a person affected by it may file with the Commission an application for rehearing. A request for rehearing must be received by 4:30 PM on the 23rd day following the date of the order, or next working day ifa holiday or weekend, to be timely filed. The Commission shall grant or refuse the application in whole or in part within 10 days. The Commission can refuse an application by not acting on it within the 10-day period. An affected person has 30 days from the date the Commission refuses the application or mails (or otherwise distributes) an order upon rehearing, both being the final order of the Commission, to appeal the decision to superior Court. Where a request for rehearing is denied by nonaction of the Commission, the 30-day period for appeal to Superior Court hms from the date on which the request is deemed denied (i.e., 10th day after the application for reheating was filed). Notice of Public Hearing STATE OF ALASKA Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission Re: The application of BP EXPLORATION (ALASKA) Inc. for exception to 20 AAC 25.055 to allow drilling the Badami No. 3 exploration oil well. BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc. by letter dated December 17, 1993 has requested an exception to the provisions of 20 AAC 25.055(a)(1) for the drilling of an exploratory oil well in the northeastern portion of the North Slope. The exception would allow BP to directionally drill the Badami No. 3 exploratory oil well to a location that is closer than 500 feet from a quarter section line. The proposed surface location is 1251' from the north line (FNL) and 1388' from the east line (FEL) of Section 10, T9N, R20E, Umiat Meridian (UM) and the proposed bottom-hole location is 1328' FNL and 4310' FEL of Section 3, T9N, R20E, UM. A person who may be harmed if the requested order is issued may file a written protest prior to 4:00 PM January 4, 1994 with the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, 3001 Porcupine Drive, Anchorage, Alaska 99501, and request a hearing on the matter. If the protest is timely filed and raises a substantial and material issue crucial to the Commission's determination, a hearing on the matter will be held at the above address at 9:00 AM on January 21, 1994 in conformance with 20 AAC 25.540. If a hearing is to be held, interested parties may confirm this by calling the Commission office, (907) 279- 1433, after January 4, 1994. If no protest is filed, the Commission will consider the issuance of the order without a hearing. Russell A. Douglass, Commi~Jsioner Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission Published December 21, 1993 #4803 STOF0330 AO-08-5761 AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLiCATiON STATE OF ALASKA, ) THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRJCT. ) Eva M. Kaufmann being first duly sworn on oath deposes and says that he/she is an advertising representative of the Anchorage Daily News, a daily newspaper. That said newspaper has been approved by the Third Judicial Court, Anchorage, Alaska, and it now and has been published in the English language continually as a daily newspaper in Anchorage, Alaska, and it is now and during all said time was printed in an office maintained at the aforesaid place of publication of said newspaper. That the annexed is a copy of an advertisement as it was published in regular issues (and not in supplemental form) of said newspaper on Dec. 21, 1993 and that such newspaper was regularly distributed to its subscribers during all of said period. That the full amount of the fee charged for the foregoing publication is not in excess of the rate charged private individuals. me this ~day of..~ .... :~~ubi'¢ in and for the State of Alaska. Third Division. Anchorage, Alaska MY COMMISSION EXPIRES ] ............. ...... Notice of Public Hear!ng STATE OF. ALASKA , Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission Re: The application of ,-BP EXPLORATION (ALASKA) Inc. for exception to 20 AAC 25.055 to allow drilling the Bad- ami No. 3 exploration oil well. BP' ExPlor'atlo~ (Alaska) Inc. bY lett&r dated December 17;~ 1993 has requested an ex-' ception to the provisions of 20 .AAC 25.055(a)(1) for;the dril- l. rtg of an exploratory oil well 'ih'the nort~astern portion of the NOrth SIo~. , ,, The exception ..would allow .BP..to dlrectionally drill the · Bedami No. 3 exploratory oil well to a location that is c'loser than 500 feet.'from = quarter Section ne. 'T. he proposed sur- · face location is 1251' from the ~0rth line .(FNL) .and 1388' .'from the east I ne (FEL) of Sectlbn 10, TgN, R20E, 'Umiat .'..Meridian (uM),.and the pro- .poSed bottom-hole location is · 1328' 'FNL:. and 4310' FEL bf '.Section 3, T9N, R20E, UM. .i'A person who may be harm- ed If. th~ requested order is ~ isSu. ed.:'ma¥ file., a' ~ritten pro: i'.test' pr )'or '.to.:4:0~ ~' p. M J.anuary 1.:~,"~199~. w th"thei' Ala'ska' Oil and ':OaS'..cbn.~ervati0n c0mmisSi6n~ ~' .~%71' 'D~'r;~=,~.,,-. 'D~'Ve .'~-;~o'r- ~.j..-..~ .'. 3~.(;', ~;.~'.': ,l':: °,'~' ,:", -"; "~hJ' '~.: ':'l ",:. "'.;'.'" "' ~r~',.,~$' r.~ .~:S ,1 ' 3 .~'..Ln. ''".'~5 :' .', :~": .... '-'' :." :,:.1' '~.: .' .... ,'.' i¥:" *1~ '":' ~'.,l" i.'.::;'''~' ~" .; ;-'. -'',' :)1' .dl'.dr, .:' ,~;' " :.~'li.?,-a-,'.:'. :,'°' ?? '. '.-" :-;$..: * ,: -:,..-r'-,:: ~., ':~ :':.. -g. 't. '--~r.~.~t..~.- I:'~'1" :~.~ ," ' · ~:- ._ .~;~. :-, -:, :~. , .':;':' -?";. 1.:~ ?.. : Fo ."~:'.~ ~.; ~ · ¢'-" '".' ~:;:" ,~rlng'~ , ' ,,, ' , ,/:~s/RUSSell A 'DOugJ~ss,, , ,, c;om~i~Si'on~e,r, '., , , 'Alaslca' C)il ,and ' 'i' ' Gas,C'0nser~ati,On Commi:ssion 'AO,08-5761:,, , , ', 'Pubi,' DeCember 21, , BP EXPLORATION BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc. 900 East Benson Boulevard RO, Box 196612 Anchorage, Alaska 99519-6612 (907) 561-5111 December 17, 1993 David W. Johnston, Commissioner Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission 3001 Porcupine Drive Anchorage, Alaska 99501-3192 Re' Request for Exception to the Provisions of 20 AAC 25.055- Badami #3 Well Dear Commissioner Johnston' BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc. hereby applies for an exception to the provisions of 20 AAC 25.055 for the drilling of Badami #3 Well (the Well), for which the proposed location is' 1. Surface Location: 1251' FNL, 1388' FEL, Section 10, Township 9 North, Range 20 East, Umiat Meridian. 2. Top Target Bottomhole Location' 2415.9' FNL, 3688.2' FEL, Section 3, Township 9 North, Range 20 East, Umiat Meridian. 3. Total Depth Bottomhole Location: 1327.7' FNL, 4309.8' FEL, Section 3, Township 9 North, Range 20 East, Umiat Meridian. The owners and operators of all governmental quarter sections directly and diagonally offsetting the proposed location of the Well are BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc., Conoco Inc. and Petrofina Delaware, Inc. The plat required by the regulation is attached as Exhibit 1. The verification required by the regulation is attached as Exhibit 2. A copy of the notification to the owners and operators is attached in the package and is designated as Exhibit A. If you have any questions or require additional information, please contact R. L. Skillern at 564-5567. Sincerely,,...,..,.-. ...... / . ..... .,.,;'/'"' BP E,x~'[C~,r~tion.(Alaska)Inc. ~' Vi~resident - Exploration, Alaska RECEIVED enc. DEC 2 0 199,~ Alaska 0il & Gas Cons. Commission Anchorage 32 SURFACE ~ 1251' FNL, 1388' 32 EXHIBIT 2 VERIFICATION OF APPLICATION FOR SPACING EXCEPTION BADAMI #3 WELL J. W. Farnsworth, Exploration Manager BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc., does hereby verify the following: 1. I am acquainted with the application submitted for the drilling of the Badami #3 Well. 2. I have reviewed the application submitted for the exception to 20 AAC 25.055 and all facts therein are true. 3. I have reviewed the plat attached as Exhibit 1 and it correctly portrays pertinent and required data. DATED at Anchorage, Alaska this /~ ¥'Jday of December, 1993. /d. W. Farnsworth · Exploration Manager STATE OF ALASKA THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN TO before me this '~"]~H,~ day of December, 1993. NOTARY PUBLIC IN AND FOR ALASKA My commission expires: z- RECEIVED DEC 20 1993 Alaska 0il & Gas Cons. Commission Anchorage EXHIBIT 3 TO THE ALASKA OIL AND GAS CONSERVATION COMMISSION Before the Commissioners of the ) Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation ) Commission in the Matter of the ) Request of BP Exploration (Alaska)) for an Exception to the Provisions ) of 20 AAC 25.055 ) ) AFFIDAVIT OF R. L. SKILLERN STATE OF ALASKA THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT R. L. Skillern, being first duly sworn, upon oath, deposes and states as follows: 1. My name is R. L. Skillern. I am over 19 years old and have personal knowledge of the matters set forth herein. 2. I am a Landman for the well operator, BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc. 3. Pursuant to 20 AAC 25.055 (b), BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc. (BP), the well operator, prepared a Notice of Request for an Exception to the Provisions of 20 AAC 25.055. A copy of this notice is attached hereto as Exhibit A. 4. On December ¥'7~k , 1993, pursuant to 20 AAC 25.055(b), BP sent a copy of said notice by registered mail to the last known address of each owner and operator of governmental quarter sections directly and diagonally offsetting the quarter section of the proposed location of the oil well, and has notified the appropriate departments within BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc. Attached hereto as Exhibit B is an affidavit of Mailing of Notice. Subscribed and sworn to this I"),~ da of December, 1993. ILLERN STATE OF ALASKA THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT The foregoing instrument was acknowledged before me this of December, 1993, by R. L. Skillern. day RECEIVED DEC 2 0 1993 Atsska 0il & Gas Cons. Commission Anchorage Notary Public, State of Alaska My Commission Expires: 2~- BP EXPLORATION December 16, 1993 BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc. 900 East Benson Boulevard P.O. Box 196612 Anchorage, Alaska 99519-6612 (907) 561-5111 EXHIBIT A Conoco, Inc. Attn' David Cramer 3201 C Street Anchorage, Alaska 99503 Petrofina Delaware, Inc. Attn: John P. Tower 14950 Heathrow Forest Pkwy. Suite 300 Houston, Texas 77032 RE: Notice of Request for Exception to the Provisions of 20 AAC 25.055 Badami #3 Well Gentlemen: Pursuant to the requirements of 20 AAC 25.055(b), BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc. hereby gives notice of a request to the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission for an exception to the spacing requirements of 20 AAC 25.055(a)(1). Specifically, the exception location applied for will be as follows: 1. Surface Location: 1251' FNL, 1388' FEL, Section 10, Township 9 North, Range 20 East, Umiat Meridian. 2. Top Target Bottomhole Location: 2415.9' FNL, 3688.2' FEL, Section 3, Township 9 North, Range 20 East, Umiat Meridian. 3. Total Depth Bottomhole Location' 1327.7' FNL, 4309.8' FEL, Section 3, Township 9 North, Range 20 East, Umiat Meridian. A copy of the request is attached. Sincerely, ........... ' ' ..,,' ,,,~ ,,,":,..,/, . / .,;';/:,:.,,//,,~ . '/,,',,// ~, - vice P~ident - Exploration, Alaska enc. RECEIVED DEC 2 0 199,3 Alsska Oil & Gas Cons. Commission Anchorage EXHIBIT B TO THE ALASKA OIL AND GAS CONSERVATION COMMISSION Before the Commissioners of the ) Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation ) Commission in the Matter of the ) Request of BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc. ) for an Exception to the Provisions of ) 20 AAC 25.055 ) ) AFFIDAVIT OF MAILING OF NOTICE STATE OF ALASKA THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT SS. Jo~ L. Durham , being first duly sworn, upon her oath, deposes and says: I am a citizen of the United States of America over the age of 19 years, and employed as a secretary for BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc. That on the 1'7 ~ day of December, 1993, I sent a true and correct copy of E. M. Luttrell's December 17, 1993 Notice of Request for Exception to the Provisions of 20 AAC 25.055 via United States Registered Mail, to: Conoco, Inc. Attn: David Cramer 3201 C Street Anchorage, Alaska 99503 Petrofina Delaware, Inc. Attn: John P. Tower 14950 Heathrow Forest Pkwy. Suite 300 Houston, Texas 77032 DATED at Anchorage, Alaska, this 17th day of December, 1993. Joy L~-- Durham SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN TO before me this I-7% day of December, 19931' RECEIVED DEC 20 1993 A,t~ska Oil & Gas Cons. Commission Anchorage Notary Public, State of Alaska My Commission Expires: ~-':z'~-