OCD Permitting

Cases Scheduled for Commission Hearing for Thursday, December 9, 2021

Below is a preliminary list of cases schedule to be heard at this OCC hearing. A party desiring to use projection equipment at the hearing shall contact Florene Davidson, OCD Clerk, no later than seven (7) business days prior to the hearing.

Case No. Description
1. 22309 Order R-21834, Case No. 21733 (de novo): Application of Spur Energy Partners, LLC for compulsory pooling, Eddy County, New Mexico. Applicant in the above-styled cause seeks an order pooling all uncommitted interests in the Yeso formation, underlying a standard 480-acre horizontal spacing unit comprised of the N/2 of Section 13, and the NE/4 of Section 14, Township 17 South, Range 28 East, NMPM, Eddy County,, New Mexico. Applicant proposes to dedicate the above-referenced spacing unit to the following wells:
•    The Aid North #10H well, and the Aid North #50H, each of which will be horizontally drilled from a common surface location in the NW/4 NE/4 (Unit B) of Section 14, to bottom hole locations in the NE/4 NE/4 (Unit A) of Section 13;
•    The Aid North #11H well, the Aid North #12H well, the Aid North #51H well, and the Aid North #70H well, each of which will be horizontally drilled from a common surface location in the NW/4 NE/4 (Unit B) of Section 14 to bottom hole locations in the SE/4 NE/4 (Unit H) of Section 13.
The completed interval of the Aid North #11H well will remain within 330 feet of the quarter-quarter line separating the N/2 N/2 from the S/2 N/2 of Section 13 and the N/2 NE/4 from the S/2 SE/4 of Section 14 to allow inclusion of these proximity tracts into a standard horizontal spacing unit. Also, to be considered will be the cost of drilling and completing said wells and the allocation of the cost thereof, actual operating costs, charges for supervision, designation of applicant as operator of the wells, and a 200% charge for risk involved in drilling said wells. Said area is located approximately 13 miles south of Artesia, New Mexico.
2. 21744 Application of Cimarex Energy Co. for Hearing De Novo of Case No. 21629. The New Mexico Oil Conservation Division issued Order No. R-21575 in Case No. 21629. Magnum Hunter Production, Inc., an affiliate of Cimarex Energy Co. (collectively referred to herein as “Cimarex”) owned a working interest in the unit pooled by Order No. R-21575, issued pursuant to a hearing held before the Division on January 7, 2021. Cimarex, a party of record adversely affected by Order No. R-21575, requests that the matter raised in this case be heard de novo before the Oil Conservation Commission pursuant to NMSA 1978, §70-2-13.
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