PRELIMINARY DOCKET:
Special Examiner Hearing for Friday, October 22, 2021
Applications for hearing shall be filed at least thirty (30) days in advance of the hearing date.
A party who intends to present evidence shall file a pre-hearing statement no later than the close of
business on the Thursday prior to the hearing date and serve a copy on the other parties, if any. The
hearing examiner will dismiss the application if the applicant does not file and serve a pre-hearing
statement as specified above. 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.
NOTICE: The hearing examiner may call the following cases in any order in his or her discretion.
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Application of OXY USA, Ince. for approval of the Juno Bone Spring Upper Wolfcamp Cc 23-24 Unit, to modify the injection authority approved under Order R-21356 and expand that authority to include eleven additional wells in the unitized area, and to contract existing Bone Spring and Wolfcamp pools in favor of a new oil pool comprised of the Bone Spring Formation and the Upper Wolfcamp “XY” and “A” intervals of the Wolfcamp formation, Eddy County, New Mexico. Applicant seeks an order (a) approving the Juno Bone Spring Upper Wolfcamp CC 23-24 Unit (“Juno Unit”), (b) modifying the injection authority approve under Division Order R-21356 and expanding that authority to include eleven additional wells in the unitized area for pressure maintenance, and (c) contracting the Pierce Crossing; Bone Spring, East Pool (96473), the Pierce Crossing; Bone Spring Pool (50371), the Corral Draw; Bone Spring Pool (96238) and the Purple Sage-Wolfcamp Gas Pool (98220) from the Unit Area and replacing it with a new oil pool comprised of the Bone Spring formation and the Upper Wolfcamp “XY” and A” intervals of the Wolfcamp formation. The proposed unit is comprised of the following federal and fee lands in Eddy County, New Mexico:
TOWNSHIP 24 SOUTH, RANGE 29 EAST, N.M.P.M.
Section 23: ALL
Section 24: W/2
The unitized interval includes the Bone Spring formation and Upper Wolfcamp “XY” and “A” intervals of the Wolfcamp formation as identified by the Gamma Ray log run in the Canyon 23 #1 well (API: 30-015-29318) located in the NE/4 SE/4 of Section 23, Township 24 South, Range 29 East, Eddy County, New Mexico, with the top of the unitized interval being found at a measured depth of 6,878 feet below the surface (-3,819 subsea) and the base of the unitized interval being found at a measured depth of 10,736 feet below the surface (-7,647 subsea) or the stratigraphic equivalent thereto. The proposed Unit Area has one injection well approved by Order R-21356 and eleven additional horizontal wells completed in the Bone Spring formation and the Upper Wolfcamp intervals of the Wolfcamp formation that Oxy seeks to convert into injection wells to implement a “huff and puff” pressure maintenance project. The subject area is located approximately ten miles southeast of Loving, New Mexico.
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