OCD Permitting

Cases Scheduled for VACATED: Commission Hearing on April 17, 2025

Below is a preliminary list of cases scheduled to be heard at this OCC hearing. If you are an individual with a disability who is in need of a reader, amplifier, qualified sign language interpreter, or any other form of auxiliary aid or service to attend or participate in the hearing, please contact Sheila Apodaca at (505) 699-8358 or through the New Mexico Relay Network at 1-800-659-1779, no later than seven (7) business days prior to the hearing.

Case No. Description
1. 25238 V-F Petroleum, Inc., (“V-F”) submits to the Oil Conservation Commission pursuant to 19.15.4.23 NMAC and to the Oil Conservation Division pursuant to NMSA 1978, § 70-2-13 an Application for Hearing De Novo on that grounds that four (4) of the pooling applications in these consolidated proceedings, specifically those assigned the Case Nos. 25145–25148, were not given timely notice prior to the hearing conducted on January 28, 2025. On this basis, V-F requests the Commission to review de novo in Case Nos. 24941-24942, 25145-25148, 24994-24995, and 25115-25117 (1) the propriety of the Hearing Examiner’s denial of V-F’s Motion to Dismiss; (2) the propriety of the Division’s conducting a hearing on January 28, 2025 despite lack of timely notice; and (3) the propriety of conducting any further hearings before the Division related to the January 28, 2025.
2. 25239 APPLICATION BY CAROLYN BEALL FOR
DE NOVO COMMISSION HEARING ON
APPLICATIONS OF READ & STEVENS, INC.
FOR COMPULSORY POOLING,
EDDY COUNTY, NEW MEXICO
CASE NOS. 25145-25146.
CASE NO. 25145:
Application of Read & Stevens, Inc. for Compulsory Pooling, Eddy County, New Mexico. Applicant in the above-styled cause seeks an order (1) approving a 320-acre, more or less, overlapping horizontal well spacing unit in a portion of the Bone Spring formation, from the top of the Third Bone Spring formation to the base of the Bone Spring formation, underlying the N/2 N/2 of Sections 14 and 15, Township 18 South, Range 31 East, NMPM, Eddy County, New Mexico, and (2) pooling all uncommitted interests in this acreage. Said unit will be initially dedicated to the proposed Slim Jim 14-15 Fed Com 131H well, to be horizontally drilled from a surface location in the NE/4 NE/4 (Unit A) of Section 14, with a first take point in the NE/4 NE/4 (Unit A) of Section 14, and a last take point in the NW/4 NW/4 (Unit D) of Section 15. This proposed horizontal well spacing unit will overlap the following existing spacing unit in the Bone Spring formation:
• 160-acre spacing unit comprised of the N/2 N/2 of Section 15, T18S-R31E, dedicated to the Tamano 15 AD Federal 1H (API: 30-015-40868) well currently operated by Mewbourne Oil Company.
Also, to be considered will be the cost of drilling and completing the well and the allocation of the cost thereof, actual operating costs and charges for supervision, designation of Permian Resources Operating, LLC as operator of the well, and a 200% charge for risk involved in drilling said well. Said area is located approximately 8.5 miles southwest of Maljamar, New Mexico.

CASE NO. 25146: Application of Read & Stevens, Inc. for Compulsory Pooling, Eddy County, New Mexico. Applicant in the above-styled cause seeks an order pooling all uncommitted interests in a portion of the Bone Spring formation, from the top of the Third Bone Spring formation to the base of the Bone Spring formation, underlying the S/2 N/2 of Sections 14 and 15, Township 18 South, Range 31 East, NMPM, Eddy County, New Mexico. Said unit will be initially dedicated to the proposed Slim Jim 14-15 Fed Com 132H well, to be horizontally drilled from a surface location in the NW/4 SW/4 (Unit L) of Section 13, with a first take point in the SE/4 NE/4 (Unit H) of Section 14, and a last take point in the SW/4 NW/4 (Unit E) of Section 15. Also, to be considered will be the cost of drilling and completing the well and the allocation of the cost thereof, actual operating costs and charges for supervision, designation of Permian Resources Operating, LLC as operator of the well, and a 200% charge for risk involved in drilling said well. Said area is located approximately 8.5 miles southwest of Maljamar, New Mexico.
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