Shreveport Times
September 28, 2026
Apex, 26-321 thru 324
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CEDAR GROVE FIELD
26-321 thru 26-324
LEGAL NOTICE
STATE OF LOUISIANA, DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND ENERGY, BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA.
In accordance with the laws of the State of Louisiana, and with particular reference to the provisions of Title 30 of Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950, a public hearing will be held in the Hearing Room, 1st Floor, LaSalle Building, 617 North 3rd Street, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, at 9:00 a.m. on TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2026, upon the application of APEX NATURAL GAS, LLC.
At such hearing the Department of Conservation and Energy will consider evidence relative to the issuance of Orders pertaining to the following matters relating to the Haynesville Zone, Reservoir A, in the Cedar Grove Field, Caddo Parish, Louisiana.
1. To permit Applicant to drill, designate and utilize four cross unit horizontal wells, one of which to serve as a substitute unit well for HA RA SUV and HA RA SUS and the other three cross unit horizontal wells to serve as alternate unit wells for HA RA SUV and HA RA SUS, with all such wells to be at the locations and in the general manner shown on the plat submitted with the application, in exception to the spacing provisions of the 967-C Series of Office of Permitting and Compliance Orders, and in accordance with LAC 43:XIX.4307, et seq. (Statewide Order No. 29-S).
2. To permit Applicant to drill, designate and utilize one cross unit horizontal unit line well to serve as an alternate unit well for HA RA SUV, HA RA SUDD, HA RA SUS, and HA RA SUU, with such well to be drilled at the locations and in the general manner shown on the plat submitted with the application, or at any other legal locations within such units, and to approve an exception to the spacing provisions of the 967-C Series of Orders, and in accordance with LAC 43:XIX.4307, et seq. (Statewide Order No. 29-S).
3. To permit Applicant to designate and utilize the existing horizontal unit well, the Apex Natural Gas, LLC-HA RA SUV; Smith 3-16-13 H No. 1 Well (SN 243944) as an additional horizontal alternate unit well for HA RA SUV, and to designate and utilize the existing horizontal unit well, the HA RA SUS; Tensas Delta LLC 8 H No. 1 Well (SN 241358) as an additional horizontal alternate unit well for HA RA SUS, with both such wells at the locations and in the general manner shown on the plat submitted with the application.
4. To specifically find that the proposed cross unit horizontal wells for HA RA SUV and HA RA SUS, cross unit horizontal unit line well for HA RA SUV, HA RA SUDD, HA RA SUS, and HA RA SUU, and horizontal alternate unit wells for HA RA SUV and HA RA SUS are reasonable and in the interest of conservation and necessary to efficiently and economically drain a portion of the Haynesville Zone, Reservoir A, underlying said units, which cannot be efficiently and economically drained by any existing well within such units, including portions of the participating units that are contained within 330' of either side of the common unit boundaries between said units.
5. To provide that with respect to horizontal wells drilled to the Haynesville Zone, Reservoir A, within or to serve HA RA SUV, HA RA SUDD, HA RA SUS and HA RA SUU, where the horizontal portion of the well is cased and cemented back above the top of the Haynesville Zone, Reservoir A, the distance to any unit boundary and offset well(s) should be calculated based on the distance to the nearest perforation in the well and not based on the penetration point or terminus.
6. To confirm applicant as the operator of HA RA SUV, HA RA SUDD, HA RA SUS and HA RA SUU and the wells requested to be designated to serve said units hereby.
7. To permit the operator to produce the allowable for each unit from the respective substitute unit well, unit well, and any alternate unit well, or from any combination thereof, at its discretion.
8. To provide that unit production from the proposed cross unit horizontal wells should be allocated to each unit in the same proportion as the perforated length of the lateral in each such unit bears to the total length of the perforated lateral, and, as to the cross unit horizontal well to serve as a unit line well, the portion of the proposed well along the common unit line of the subject units, as applicable, in the same proportion as the perforated length of lateral within 330' of the common unit boundary between units served by such well, as determined by an "as-drilled" survey performed after such cross unit horizontal wells are drilled and completed, and that unit production should continue to be shared on a surface acreage basis of participation.
9. To provide that production from the proposed cross unit horizontal wells should be separated and metered individually, and this information should be reported in the manner prescribed by the Department of Conservation and Energy.
10. To continue in force and effect, except to the extent contrary herewith, the pertinent provisions of Order No. 967-C, effective August 12, 2008, as amended and supplemented by the 967-C Series of Orders, and all applicable Statewide Orders.
11. To consider such other matters as may be pertinent.
The Haynesville Zone, Reservoir A was initially defined in Order No. 967-C, effective August 12, 2008, and was redefined insofar as HA RA SUV is concerned, in Order No. 967-C-14, effective October 26, 2010, was redefined insofar as HA RA SUS is concerned, in Order No. 967-C-10, effective May 11, 2010, was redefined insofar as HA RA SUU is concerned, in Order No. 967-C-11, effective August 31, 2010, and was redefined insofar as HA RA SUDD is concerned, in Order No. 967-C-43, effective March 3, 2026.
A plat is available for inspection in the Department of Conservation and Energy in Baton Rouge and Shreveport, Louisiana.
http://dnr.louisiana.gov/conshearings
All parties having interest therein shall take notice thereof.
BY ORDER OF:
DUSTIN H. DAVIDSON, SECRETARY
DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND ENERGY
Baton Rouge, LA 9/22/26;9/25/26 S lck
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1024-052
September 28 2026
LLOU0602254
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