Whitesville Field, East Resources Proposal for Field-Wide Setback Variance and Gas-Oil Ratio
A public hearing has been scheduled for 1:00 PM on July 15, 2008, continuing July 16 if necessary, in the small gymnasium, Whitesville Central School, 692 Main Street, Whitesville, New York, to review the proposal described below. Written comments and petitions requesting full party or amicus status are due on July 8, 2008. See the full hearing notice for details regarding the hearing and how to file comments or petitions.
Applicant: EAST RESOURCES, INC., 301 Brush Creek Road, Warrendale, Pennsylvania 15086. Contact: Jared Hall, Operations Manager NY/PA (Telephone: 724-772-8600).
Project Number: DEC Project Number DMN 08-V-04.
Project Description and Location: Applicant proposes to produce oil and associated natural gas from the Fulmer Valley sandstone in the Whitesville Field. The area proposed for drilling is approximately 20,000 acres in size, including approximately 440 acres in the southeast corner of the Town of Willing, Allegany County, 7,880 acres in the southern portion of the Town of Independence, Allegany County, and 11,720 acres in the southwest portion of the Town of West Union, Steuben County.
Wells will be developed on leasehold acreage within 501 spacing units in the Whitesville Field, using a grid pattern of 40-acre spacing units. Wells will be located a minimum of 100 feet from a unit boundary and 350 feet between wells.
In addition, applicant proposes to establish a maximum gas-oil ratio of 165,000 cubic feet of gas for each barrel of oil produced from the Whitesville Field.
The map of the proposed Whitesville Field and potential spacing units is a PDF Document (975 KB) and is also available at the document repositories indicated in the hearing notice.
