The State Oil and Gas Board of Alabama will hold its regular hearing at 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, September 13, and Thursday, September 15, 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. 9-13-22-02
Petition by LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT, INC., an Alabama
corporation, requesting the State Oil and Gas Board to enter an order establishing a new oil field in Pickens County, Alabama, to be named the North Coal Fire Creek Oil Field, or such other name as the Board deems proper, and to adopt Special Field Rules therefor. The proposed field, as underlain by the Pottsville A Sand Oil Pool, as hereinafter defined, shall consist of the North Half of the Southwest Quarter of Section 3, Township 18 South, Range 14 West, Pickens County, Alabama.
The Pottsville A Sand Oil Pool in the North Coal Fire Creek Oil Field should be defined as those strata productive of hydrocarbons in the interval between 3,778 feet measured depth (MD) and 3,815 feet measured depth (MD) as indicated on the Schlumberger Dual Induction Log for the Cook 3-12 #1 Well, Permit No. 4555-A, including those strata which can be correlated therewith, and all zones in communication therewith and all productive extensions thereof.
Petitioner requests well spacing of 80 acres and also requests the establishment of production
allowables for said field.
Petitioner has filed a companion petition bearing Docket No. 9-13-22-03 requesting to reform the alternate 40-acre wildcat drilling unit for the Cook 3-12 #1 Well to an 80-acre production unit in the North Coal Fire Creek Field.
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.
DOCKET NO. 9-13-22-03
Petition by LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT, INC., an Alabama
corporation, requesting the State Oil and Gas Board of Alabama to enter an order reforming the alternate 40-acre wildcat drilling unit for the Cook 3-12 #1 Well, Permit No. 4555-A, consisting of the Northwest Quarter of the Southwest Quarter Section 3, Township 18 South, Range 14 West, Pickens County, Alabama, to an 80-acre production unit in the proposed North Coal Fire Creek Oil Field consisting of the North Half of the Southwest Quarter of said Section 3, and approving and establishing said 80-acre unit as the permanent production unit for said well.
This petition is filed as a companion to a petition bearing Docket No. 9-13-22-02 requesting to
establish the North Coal Fire Creek Oil Field.
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.
DOCKET NO. 9-13-22-04
Petition by LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT, INC., an Alabama
corporation, requesting the State Oil and Gas Board to enter an order establishing a new gas field in Pickens County, Alabama, to be named the Northwest Magby Creek Field, or such other name as the Board deems proper, and to adopt Special Field Rules therefor. The proposed field, as underlain by the Sanders Sand Gas Pool, as hereinafter defined, shall consist of the West Half of Section 15, Township 18 South, Range 16 West, Pickens County, Alabama.
The Sanders Sand Gas Pool in the proposed Northwest Magby Creek Field should be defined as those strata productive of hydrocarbons between the interval of 5,540 feet measured depth (MD) and 5,603 feet measured depth (MD), as indicated on the Schlumberger Dual Induction Log for the Cook 15-5 #1 Well, Permit No. 5837-A, and all zones in communication therewith, all productive extensions thereof and all strata which can be correlated therewith. Said pool
constitutes a separate and distinct gas producing pool in the proposed field.
Petitioner requests well spacing of 320 acres and also requests the establishment of production allowables for said field.
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.