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Home My WebLink AboutCO 336Conservation Order Cover Page 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 file. ~._.'~,~ __~ Conservation Order Category Identifier Organizing RESCAN DIGITAL DATA OVERSIZED (Scannable with lame plotter/scanner) [] Color items: [] Diskettes, No. [] Maps: [] Grayscale items: [] Other, No/Type [] Other items [] Poor Quality Originais: OVERSIZED (Not suitable for [] Other: plotter/scanner, may work with 'log' scanner) [] Logs of various kinds [] Other NOTES: BY: TOTAL PAGES Scanning Preparation BY: ~ MARIA DATE:,/'[ _~-- ~"")/' C.~./{ c) ~'~_'~ /S/"'~% Production Scanning Stage I PAGE COUNT FROM SCANNED DOCUMENT: PAGE COUNT MATCHES NUMBER IN SCANNING PREPARATION: /~ YES ~ NO BY: Stage 2 IF NO IN STAGE 1, PAGE(S) DISCREPANCIES WERE FOUND: ~ YES ~ NO (SCANNING IS COMPLETE AT THIS POINT UNLESS SPECIAL ATTENTION IS REQUIRED ON AN INDIVIDUAL PAGE BASIS DUE TO QUALITY, GRAYSCALE OR COLOR IMAGES) General Notes or Comments about this Document: 5/21/03 ConservOrdCvrPg.wpd • • INDEX CONSERVATION ORDER NO. 336 Milne Point L-14 l.) Apri121, 1994 Notice of Public Hearing, Affidavit of Publication Conservation Order No. 336 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 Milne ) Point L-14 development oil well. ) Conservation Order No. 336 BP Exploration (Alaska), Inc. Milne Point L- 14 May 9, 1994 IT APPEARING THAT: BP Exploration (Alaska), Inc. submitted an application dated April 18, 1994 requesting exception to 20 AAC 25.055(a)(3) to allow drilling the BP Milne Point L-14 development oil well to a location that is closer than 500 feet to a drilling unit boundary. . Notice of opportunity for public hearing was published in the Anchorage Daily News on April 21, 1994 pursumat to 20 AAC 25.540. 3. No protests to the application were received. FINDINGS: The BP Milne Poim L-14 well as proposed will be a deviated hole drilled from a surface location 3503' from the south line (FSL) and 4753' from the east line (FEL) of Section 8, T13N, R10E, Umiat Meridian (UM) to a proposed bottom-hole location of 2475' FSL and 3246' FEL of Section 32, T14N, R10E, UM. . BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc. is the owner and operator of all govennnental quarter sections directly mad diagonally offsetting the proposed bottom-hole location of the well. 3. An exception to 20 AAC 25.055(a)(3) is necessary to allow drilling of this well. CONCLUSION: Granting a spacing exception to allow drilling of the BP Milne Point L-14 well as proposed will not result in waste nor jeopardize correlative rights. Conservation Order No. 33(~,. May 9, 1994 Page 2 NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS ORDERED: BP Exploration (Alaska), Inc.'s application for exception to 20 AAC 25.055 for the purpose of drilling the Milne Point L-14 well is approved as proposed. DONE at Anchorage, Alaska and dated May 9, 1994. David W. ~ Tthckerman Babcock, Commissioner 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 ,'m 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 if a holiday or weekend, to be timely filed. The Conunission shall grant or refuse the application in whole or in part within 10 days. The Commission c,'m refixse an application by not acting on it within the 1 O-day period. An affected person has 30 days from the date the Conmfission refuses the application or mails (or otherwise distributes) an order upon rehearing, both being the final order of the Cmmnission, to appeal the decision to Superior Court. Where a request for rehearing is denied by nonaction of the Cormnission, the 30-day period for appeal to Superior Court runs from the date on which the request is deemed denied (i.e., 10th day after the application for rehearing was filed). Notice of Public Hearing STATE OF ALASKA Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission Re: The application of B.P. Exploration (Alaska) Inc. for exception to 20 AAC 25.055 to allow drilling the Milne Point L-14 development oil well. B. P. Exploration (Alaska) by letter dated April 18, 1994 has requested an exception to the provisions of 20 AAC 25.055(a)(3) for the drilling of a development oil well in the Milne Point area. The exception would allow BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc. to diirectionally drill the Milne Point L-14 development oil well to a producing location that is closer than 500 feet from a quarter section line. The proposed surface location is 3503' from the south line (FSL), 4753' from the east line (FEL) of Section 8, T13N, R10E, Umiat Meridian (UM) and the proposed bottom-hole location is 2475' FSL and 3246' FEL of Section 32, T14N, R10E, UM. A person who may be harmed if the requested order is issued may file a written protest prior to 4:00 PM May 9, 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 May 23, 1994 in conformance with 20 AAC 25.540. If a hearing is to be held, interested parties may confirm this by calling the Commission's office, (907) 279-1433 after May 9, 1994. If no protest is filed, the Commission will consider the issuance of the order without a hearing. Published April 21, 1994 Russell A. Douglass, Co~issioner Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission 5291 STOFO 330 02140001 $61.75 AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION STATE OF ALASKA ) THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT ) SS. Eva M Kaufmann being first duly sworn on oath deposes and says that she is the 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: April 21 ,1994 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 i. ndivid~als. si g n e ~"~~ ._~~" ~" Eva M. Kay, ann/-") C!as sifted Adve, Js~g R~p. 257-4296 Subscribed and sworn to before me this ~..~.. day of Notary Public in and for the State of Alaska. Third Division Anchorage, Alaska MY COMMISSION EXPIRES: My Commission Explreg: .......... O.°!?.b.e.r.~.4.'. ! ??Y. ....... 19 ...... Notice of Public He,iring STATE OF ALASKA Alaska Oil ami Gas Cml~ervation Commission Re: The application of B.P. Exploration (Alaska) Inc. for exception to 20 AAC 25.055 to allow drilling the /~llne Point L-14 development oil well. B.P. Exploration (Alaska) by letter dated April 18, 1994 has requested an exception to the provisions of 20 AAC 25.055 (a)(3) for the drilling of, a development oil well in the MIIne Point area. ~. The excel~fion would allow BP Exporatlon (Alaska) Inc. to dlrectionaUy, drill'the Milne .Point L-14 development oil ~well to a producing location .that is closer than 500 feet from a 'quarter' sectlon line. .The proposed surface location .Is 3503' fi;om .the south line L(FSL), 4753' from the east line (FEL) qf settlor 8, T13N, R]0E', Umi.at Meridian (UM) 'and the proposed b0ttom-hole :location is 247S'.FSL and 3246' FEL of Section 32, T14N, R10E, UM.. ' ' ,': iA 'person who .may be harmed · . ,, , 'i'f the requested'order is issued may file a wrlttefi Protest prior to 4:00 PM May 9, 1994 with he. AlaSka OII arid Gas Censer. '.:'at'c- Cc'n-'~ss'o'' 3~ ;::~.t..~ D',,'.'. A-.:'~rsg.. "..J9 K~ :~95'".", aPr' rec'-esT a hea, :.' '"e a"a':9-, m! :'L' :':.';,~' tim61y filed and raises a sub- stantlal 'and" material '.iSsue '.'Crucial to the commission's ~determination, a hearing .on the matterl will. be held at the lahore, address' at 9:00 'arb on MaY' 23, 1994' in conformance With 20 AAC 25.540; If a 'hear- ing is to'be' held, inte. rested'i 'parties may' confirm this:'b.y~ ~illing the. Commlsst0n~s of- .rice, (907) 279-1433, after May 9, .1.994. If no protest Is filed, the Commissio.n will Consider the issuance of the order.'with~ ~oUt a hearing; /s/RuSsell ^.' DOuglass . commissioner, Alaska Oil 'and "Gas Conservation COmmission : P_p_u.b_llsh:' A0ril .2_1~..1994