OCD Permitting

Cases Scheduled for Commission Meeting on December 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. 25460 Application of Franklin Mountain Energy 3, LLC for compulsory pooling and, to the extent necessary, approval of an overlapping spacing unit, Lea County, New Mexico. Applicant seeks an order from the Division pooling all uncommitted mineral interests within a 320-acre, more or less, Wolfcamp horizontal spacing unit comprised of the W/2 E/2 of Sections 27 and 34, Township 19 South, Range 35 East, N.M.P.M., Lea County, New Mexico. Franklin also seeks, to the extent necessary, approval of an overlapping spacing unit. This spacing unit will be dedicated to the Treble State Com 703H and Treble State Com 803H wells to be horizontally drilled from a surface hole location in the SW/4 SE/4 (Unit O) of Section 22 to a bottom hole location in the SW/4 SE/4 (Unit O) of Section 34. The producing area for the well is expected to be orthodox. The proposed horizontal spacing unit will partially overlap with a Wolfcamp spacing unit dedicated to a 40-acre vertical spacing unit comprised of the SW/4 NE/4 (Unit G) of Section 27, dedicated to North Fork Operating, LP’s Toro 27 #005H well (API 30-025-35425). Also to be considered will be the cost of drilling and completing said well, the allocation of these costs as well as the actual operating costs and charges for supervision, designation of Franklin Mountain Energy 3, LLC as operator of the well, and a 200% charge for risk involved in drilling said well. Said area is located approximately 18 miles southwest of Hobbs, New Mexico.
2. 25603 Application of Permian Resources Operating, LLC for Compulsory Pooling, Eddy County, New Mexico. Applicant seeks an order pooling all uncommitted interests in the Bone Spring formation underlying 320-acre, more or less, standard horizontal spacing unit comprised of Lot 3, NE/2 SW/4, N/2 SE/4 (N/2 S/2 equivalent) of irregular Section 7, and the N/2 S/2 of Section 8, Township 20 South, Range 27 East, Eddy County, New Mexico (“Unit”). The Unit will be dedicated to the Fiero 7 Fed Com 133H well (“Well”), which will be drilled from a surface hole location in the SW/4 SW/4 (Unit M) of Section 9 to a bottom hole location in the NW/4 SW/4 (Unit L) of Section 7. The completed interval of the Well will be orthodox. Also to be considered will be the cost of drilling and completing the Well, the allocation of the costs, the designation of Applicant as operator of the Unit and the Well, and a 200% charge for the risk involved in drilling and completing the Well. The Well is located approximately 11.3 miles northwest of Carlsbad, New Mexico.
3. 25700 I Respectfully request Appeal Application for De Novo Hearing with the OCD.HEARINGS@EMNRD.NM.GOV
Case No 25496 Order No. R23989
4. 25694 American written application involving case no 25166 to reopen and de novo hearing before the commission and stay of division orders.
5. 25695 Written application for de novo hearing and emergency stay of division order in case no 25496 and order no r-23989
6. 25696 Written application for de novo hearing and emergency stay of division order in case no 25495 and order no r-23977
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