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ERGY CD [,1!SSIGN ORDER NUMBER, COM-5-80 _ PROVINCE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA BRITISH COLUMBIA ENERGY COMMISSION IN THE ~ffiTTER OF the Energy Act and IN THE ~ffiTTER OF an Application by Westgrowth Petroleums Ltd. for an Order under Section 86.1 declaring the British Columbia Petroleum Corporation a common purchaser of natural gas in the Rigel Dunlevy F Pool BEFORE: R. J. Ludgate, } Deputy Chairman; and ) April 11, 1980 D. B. Kilpatrick, ) Commissioner. } o R D E R WHEREAS Westgrowth Petroleums Ltd. ("Westgrowth") applied December 3, 1979, for an Order of the Commission declaring the British Columbia Petroleum Corporation a common purchaser of natural gas from the Rigel Dunlevy F Pool; and \~EREAS Westgrowth owns a well designated as Westgrowth et al E Buick b-82-L/94-A-lO located in the Rigel area which tested gas from the Rigel Dunlevy F formation; and WHEREAS pursuant to Order COM-1-80 the Commission considered the application at a public hearing in Vancouver on March 25, 1980; and WHEREAS from the evidence with respect to well pressures and the geology of the area, the Commission concludes that the Applicant's well is capable of production of natural gas from the Rigel Dunlevy F Pool; and ... /2
B ',"r.l"'oi{ C!"',l' tl'\U :.. ORD:::R NUMBER COH-5-80 2 ~VHEREAS it appears that Westgrowth has made reasonable efforts to arrange a gas sales contract with the British Columbia, Petroleum Corporation without success; and WHEREAS the evidence further establishes that Westgrowth is suffering drainage of natural gas because of an inability to bring the said well into production. NOW THEREFORE the Commission hereby orders as follows: 1) The British Columbia Petroleum Corporation is declared a common purchaser of natural gas from the Rigel Dunlevy F Pool in respect of the well Westgrowth et al E Buick b-82-L/94-A-IO effective with the date of this Order. 2) The contract quantity applicable to the production of natural gas from the said well shall be the lesser of the volume determined on the basis of the ratio of the daily gas allowable of the said well to the sum of all the daily gas allowables determined for the Rigel Dunlevy F Pool, or the actual production. The term daily gas allowable refers to the volumetric allowable for natural gas wells and designated areas approved and issued from time to time by the Hinistry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources, exclusive of the minimum of 60,000 m 3 set for some wells . . . . /3
3) Compliance with this Order shall not require the British Columbia Petroleum Corporation to purchase natural gas from the Rigel Dunlevy F Pool in a greater total amount or at a greater rate than required under gas purchase contracts for such Pool on the date of this Order. DATED at the City of Vancouver, in the Province of British Columbia, this 11th day of April, 1980.B ORDER COM-5-80 NUMBER --~--3
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