PRELIMINARY DOCKET:
Special OCD Examiner's Hearing set for May 19, 2026
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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25937
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Second Amended Application of Mewbourne Oil Company for Compulsory Pooling, Eddy County, New Mexico. Applicant in the above-styled cause seeks an order pooling all uncommitted mineral owners in a standard 1,299.51-acre, more or less, well spacing unit in the Wolfcamp formation underlying Lots 1-4, S/2 N/2 and S/2 (All equivalent) of irregular Sections 3 and 4, Township 22 South, Range 26 East, NMPM, Eddy County, New Mexico. This spacing unit will be initially dedicated to the proposed Guyana Buffalo 4/3 Federal Com 716H and Guyana Buffalo 4/3 Federal Com 855H wells, both to be drilled from surface locations in the SW/4 SW/4 (Unit M) of irregular Section 4, to bottomhole locations in the NE/4 SE/4 (Unit I) of irregular Section 3; and Guyana Buffalo 4/3 Federal Com 718H and Guyana Buffalo 4/3 Federal Com 857H wells, both to be drilled from surface locations in the SW/4 SW/4 (Unit M) of irregular Section 4, to bottomhole locations in the SE/4 SE/4 (Unit P) of irregular Section 3. The completed interval of the Guyana Buffalo 4/3 Federal Com 855H is expected to remain within 330 feet of the adjoining quarter-quarter section (or equivalent) tracts to allow inclusion of these proximity tracts within the proposed horizontal spacing unit under 19.15.16.15.B(3)(b) NMAC. Also to be considered will be the cost of drilling and completing the wells and the allocation of the costs thereof, the operating costs and charges for supervision, the designation of applicant as operator of the proposed spacing unit, and a 200% charge for risk involved in drilling said wells. The proposed laterals fall within the city limits of Carlsbad.
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