PRELIMINARY DOCKET:
Special Examiner Hearing for Friday, October 22, 2021
For hearings by affidavit: presenting parties are required to submit a pre-hearing statement no later than the Thursday before the hearing.
The pre-hearing statement shall include: 1) a list of disputed facts and issues; 2) identification of witnesses and their qualifications; and
3) all exhibits and written testimony a party intends to enter into evidence at the hearing and a full narrative for each.
For contested matters: pre-hearing statements shall be filed no later than 9:00 a.m., 4 business days prior to the hearing and in addition to the requirements
of 19.15.4.13.B(1) NMAC, shall include: all evidentiary exhibits, documents, affidavits, and full-written testimony of any witness a party offers at the hearing.
Exhibits must be sequentially marked on every page.
Failure to timely file a complete pre-hearing statement may cause the Hearing Examiner to continue the hearing and/or impose sanctions up to and including the exclusion
of late-filed evidence. Evidentiary objections must be filed no later than 48 hours before the hearing. Rulings on the objections will be addressed as a preliminary
matter when the case is called.
If you are an individual with a disability who needs a reader, amplifier, qualified sign language interpreter, or other form of auxiliary aid or service to attend or
participate in a hearing, contact Freya.Tschantz@emnrd.nm.gov, or the New Mexico Relay Network at 1-800-659-1779,
no later than 10 days prior to the hearing.
NOTICE: The hearing examiner may call the following cases in any order at their 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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