PRELIMINARY DOCKET:
OCD Special Hearing for July 9, 2024
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 Spur Energy Partners LLC for Compulsory Pooling, Eddy County, New Mexico. Applicant seeks an order pooling all uncommitted interests in the Yeso formation underlying a 320-acre, more or less, standard horizontal spacing unit comprised of the SW/4 of Section 27 and the SE/4 of Section 28, Township 19 South, Range 25 East, Eddy County, New Mexico (“Unit”). Applicant seeks to dedicate the Unit to the following proposed wells (“Wells”): the Live Oak 27-28 State Com 20H and Live Oak 27-28 State Com 50H wells, to be drilled from surface hole locations in the NW/4 SE/4 (Unit J) of Section 27 to bottom hole locations in the NW/4 SE/4 (Unit J) of Section 28; and Live Oak 27-28 State Com 21H, Live Oak 27-28 State Com 30H, and Live Oak 27-28 State Com 70H wells, to be drilled from surface hole locations in the SW/4 SE/4 (Unit O) of Section 27 to bottom hole locations in the SW/4 SE/4 (Unit O) of Section 28. The completed intervals of the wells will be orthodox. The completed interval of the Live Oak 27-28 State Com 30H well will be located within 330’ of the quarter-quarter section line separating the N/2 S/2 and S/2 S/2 of Sections 27 and 28 to allow for the creation of a 320-acre standard horizontal spacing unit. Also to be considered will be the cost of drilling and completing the wells and the allocation of the costs, the designation of Applicant as the operator of the Wells, and a 200% charge for the risk involved in drilling and completing the Wells. The Wells are located approximately 14.78 miles South and 4.26 miles West of Artesia, New Mexico.
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