The State Oil and Gas Board of Alabama will hold a special hearing at 10:00 a.m. on Thursday, June 9, 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. 6-9-22- 01
Petition by LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT, INC., an Alabama corporation, requesting the State Oil and Gas Board of Alabama to make permanent Emergency Order 2022-031, dated May 5, 2022, approving an exceptional bottom hole location for the Mary Prater 30-14 #1 Well, Permit No. 13893- A, to test the Pottsville A Sand, said bottom hole location in the Pottsville A Sand being 295 feet more or less from the East line and 329 feet more or less from the South line of a 40-acre wildcat drilling unit consist- ing of the Southeast Quarter of the Southwest Quarter of Section 30, Township 18 South, Range 14 West, Pickens County, Alabama, as an exception to Rule 400-1-2-.02(2)(a) of the State Oil and Gas Board of Alabama Administrative Code. The bottom hole location in the Pottsville A Sand is closer than 330 feet to every exterior boundary of the 40-acre wildcat drilling unit.
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 publicshould 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.