The State Oil and Gas Board of Alabama will hold its regular hearing at 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, August 2, and Thursday, August 4, 2022, in the Board Room of the State Oil and Gas Board, Walter B. Jones Hall, University of Alabama Campus, 420 Hackberry Lane, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, to consider among other items the following petition:
DOCKET NO. 8-2-22- 01
Petition by LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT, INC., an Alabama corporation, requesting the State Oil and Gas Board to extend shut-in status for the following wells located in the Chicken Swamp Branch Oil Unit, Chicken Swamp Branch Field, Pickens County, Alabama:
Name: Windham 35-6 #2 Well
Permit No. 16774
Location: S35-T18S- R15W
Name: Grace 35-3 #3 Permit No. 16768 Location: S35-T18S-
R15W
Name: Grace 35-2 #2 Permit No. 16657 Location: S35-T18S-
R15W
Name: Homan-Hagler
1-4 #1
Permit No. 16668 Location: S1-T19S-
R15W
Name: Windham 35-10
#1
Permit No. 16567 Location: S35-T18S-
R15W
Name: Cherie Reese 3-1
#1
Permit No. 17082 Location: S3-T19S-
R15W
Name: Windham 35-8
#2
Permit No. 16521 Location: S35-T18S-
R15W
Name: Elliott 26-14 #2 Permit No. 16791 Location: S26-T18S-
R15W
Name: Holloway 2-2 #2 Permit No. 16799 Location: S2-T19S-
R15W
Name: Windham 35-12
#1
Permit No. 16871 Location: S35-T18S-
R15W
Name: Swedenburg 27-7
#1
Permit No. 16950 Location: S27-T18S-
R15W
Name: L.P. McGahey
27-16 #1
Permit No. 4064-A Location: S27-18S-
R15W
The Board, by Order No.2021-33, issued on July 22, 2021, approved shut-in status for said wells, and such status is due to expire. Petitioner requests the Board to extend shut-in status for said wells, pursuant to Rule 400-1-4-.17(2) of the State Oil and Gas Board of Alabama Administrative Code, as said wells are capable of producing and should not be plugged.
DOCKET NO. 8-2-22- 03
Petition by LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT, INC., an Alabama corporation, requesting that the State Oil and Gas Board, pursuant to Rule 400-1-4-.17(1) of the State Oil and Gas Board of Alabama Administrative Code, extend the temporarily abandoned status for the Leslie Williamson 1-5 #3 Well, Permit No. 15387-A, located on a 320-acre wildcat drilling unit consisting of the North Half of Section 1, Township 19 South, Range 14 West, Pickens County, Alabama. Said well has future utility and should not be plugged.
Petitioner also requests that the Board, pursuant to Rule 400-1-4-.17(2) of the State Oil and Gas Board of Alabama Administrative Code, extend the shut-in status for the Santhia Prater 18-13 #1 Well, Permit No. 14016, located on a 320- acre wildcat drilling unit consisting of the West Half of Section 18, Township 18 South, Range 14 West, Pickens County, Alabama, the Joe Cook 27-12 #2 Well, Permit No. 15988, located on a 40-acre wildcat drilling unit consisting of the Northwest Quarter of the Southwest Quarter of Section 27, Township 18 South, Range 14 West, Pickens County, Alabama, and the Winters 19-5 #1 Well, Permit No. 5459-A, located on a 320-acre wildcat drilling unit consisting of the West Half of Section 19, Township 18 South, Range 14 West, Pickens County, Alabama. Said wells are capable of producing and should not be plugged.
That the Board, by Order No. 2021-35 issued on September 16, 2021, extended the temporarily abandoned status for the Leslie Williamson 1-5 #3 Well, and extended the shut-in status for the Santhia Prater 18-13 #1, the Joe Cook 27- 12 #2, and the Winters 19- 5 #1 Wells, and such status is due to expire.
DOCKET NO. 8-2-22-04
Petition by LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT, INC., an Alabama corporation, requesting the State Oil and Gas Board to enter an order extending temporarily abandoned status for the Ferguson 35-12 #1 Well, Permit No. 17296, located on an 80-acre production unit in the South Coal Fire Creek Oil Field consisting of the West Half of the Southwest Quarter of Section 35, Township 18 South, Range 14 West, Pickens County, Alabama.
The Board, by Order No. 2021-14 issued on May 6, 2021, extended the temporarily abandoned status for said well, and such status has expired.
Petitioner requests the Board to extend temporarily abandoned status for said well, pursuant to Rule 400-1-4-.17(1) of the State Oil and Gas Board of Alabama Administrative Code, as said well has future utility and should not be plugged.
DOCKET NO. 8-2-22- 09
Petition by LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT, INC., an Alabama corporation, requesting the State Oil and Gas Board to extend shut-in status for the Shelton 17-8 #1 Well, Permit No. 4326, located on a 320-acre production unit consisting of the East Half of Section 17, Township 18 South, Range 14 West, Pickens County, Alabama, in the Coal Fire Creek Field.
The Board, by Order No. 2021-22 issued on July 22, 2021, extended the shut- in status for said well, and such status is due to expire. Petitioner requests the Board to extend shut-in status for said well pursuant to Rule 400-1-4-.17(2) of the State Oil and Gas Board of Alabama Administrative Code as said well has future utility and should not be plugged.
DOCKET NO. 8-2-22- 10
Petition by LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT, INC., an Alabama corporation, requesting the State Oil and Gas Board to extend the temporarily abandoned status for the A.R. Mack 13-12 #1 Well, Permit No. 12022, located on a 320-acre production unit consisting of the West Half of Section 13, Township 20 South, Range 16 West, Pickens County, Alabama, in the Woolbank Creek Field.
The Board, by Order No. 2021-23 issued on July 22, 2021, extended the temporarily abandoned status for said well and such status is due to expire. Petitioner is requesting the Board to extend temporarily abandoned status for said well, pursuant to Rule 400-1-4- .17(1) of the State Oil and Gas Board of Alabama Administrative Code, as said well has future utility and should not be plugged.
Petitioner further requests extension of shut-in status for the W.B. Robinson 11-15 #1 Well, Permit No. 4761, located on a 320- acre production unit consisting of the South Half of Section 11, Township 20 South, Range 16 West, Pickens County, Alabama, in the Woolbank Creek Field.
The Board on April 14, 2021, administratively granted shut-in status for said well and such status has expired. Petitioner is requesting the Board to extend shut-in status for said well, pursuant to Rule 400- 1-4-.17(2) of the State Oil and Gas Board of Alabama Administrative Code, as said well is capable of producing and should not be plugged.
The jurisdiction and authority of the Oil and Gas Board is provided in Section 9-17-1, et seq. of the Code of Alabama (1975) as amended.
The public is further advised that, pursuant to this hearing, the applicable provisions of the Code of Alabama (1975), and the State Oil and Gas Board of Alabama Administrative Code, the Board will enter such Order or Orders as in its judgment may be necessary in accordance with the evidence submitted and accepted. Hearings of the State Oil and Gas Board are public hearings, and members of the public are invited to attend and present their position concerning petitions. Requests to continue or oppose a petition should be received by the Board at least two (2) days prior to the hearing. The public should be aware that a petition may be set for hearing on the first day or second day of the hearing or may be continued to another hearing at a later date. We suggest that prior to the hearing, interested parties contact the Board to determine the status of a particular petition. For additional information, you may contact Marvin Rogers, General Counsel for State Oil and Gas Board, P.O. Box 869999, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35486-6999, Telephone Number 205/247-3680, Fax Number 205/349-2861, or by email at petitions@ogb.state.al.us.