Shreveport Times
February 8, 2026
Apex 26-65 thru 26-72
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CEDAR GROVE AND ELM GROVE FIELDS
26-65 thru 26-72
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, MARCH 17, 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 and Lower Cotton Valley Zone, Reservoir A, in the Cedar Grove and Elm Grove Fields, Caddo and Bossier Parishes, Louisiana.
1. To permit applicant to drill, designate and utilize three cross unit horizontal wells for HA RA SUDD, HA RA SUU, HA RA SU129 and HA RA SUO, one of which to serve as a unit well for HA RA SUDD and HA RA SUO and as a substitute unit well for HA RA SUU and HA RA SU129, and the other two wells to serve as alternate unit wells for HA RA SUDD, HA RA SUU, HA RA SU129 and HA RA SUO, with such wells to be drilled at the locations and in the general manner shown on the plats submitted with the application, or at any other legal locations within such units, and to approve an exception to the spacing provisions of the Office of Permitting and Compliance 967-C and 361-L Series of Orders as to the respective units in Cedar Grove and Elm Grove Fields, provided that the proposed cross unit horizontal wells will be perforated no closer than 330' from any unit boundary and limited to 100' from any unit boundary in the direction of the horizontal wellbore closest to the top of perforations or base of perforations and 200' between wells in adjacent competitive units, other than the common unit boundary between said units.
2. To permit applicant to drill, designate and utilize four cross unit horizontal wells for HA RA SUEE, HA RA SU133, and LCV RA SU105, one of which to serve as an alternate unit well for HA RA SUEE and LCV RA SU105 and as a substitute unit well for HA RA SU133, and the other three wells to serve as alternate unit wells for HA RA SUEE, HA RA SU133, and LCV RA SU105, with such wells to be drilled at the locations and in the general manner shown on the plats 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, 361-L and 361-E Series of Orders as to the respective units in Cedar Grove and Elm Grove Fields, provided that the proposed cross unit horizontal wells will be perforated no closer than 330' from any unit boundary and limited to 100' from any unit boundary in the direction of the horizontal wellbore closest to the top of perforations or base of perforations and 200' between wells in adjacent competitive units, other than the common unit boundary between said units.
3. To permit applicant to drill, designate and utilize two cross unit horizontal unit line wells, one of which to serve as an alternate unit well for HA RA SUDD, HA RA SUEE, HA RA SUU, and HA RA SU129, and one of which to serve as an alternate unit well for HA RA SUEE, HA RA SUU, HA RA SU133, HA RA SU129 and LCV RA SU105, with such wells 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, 361-L and 361-E Series of Orders as to the respective units in Cedar Grove and Elm Grove Fields, provided that the proposed cross unit horizontal wells will be perforated no closer than 330' from any unit boundary, as applicable to the portion of the lateral not serving as a unit line well, and limited to 100' from any unit boundary in the direction of the horizontal wellbore closest to the top of perforations or base of perforations and 200' between wells in adjacent competitive units, other than the common unit boundary between said units.
4. To permit applicant to drill, designate and utilize six cross unit horizontal wells, one of which to serve as a substitute unit well for HA RA SUN and as a unit well for HA RA SUEE, four of which to serve as alternate unit wells for HA RA SUN and HA RA SUEE, and one of which to serve as a cross unit horizontal alternate unit line well for HA RA SUN, HA RA SUO and HA RA SUEE, with such wells to be drilled at the locations and in the general manner shown on the plats 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 in Cedar Grove Field, provided that the proposed cross unit horizontal wells will be perforated no closer than 330' from any unit boundary, as applicable to the portion of the lateral not serving as a unit line well, and limited to 100' from any unit boundary in the direction of the horizontal wellbore closest to the top of perforations or base of perforations and 200' between wells in adjacent competitive units, other than the common unit boundary between said units.
5. To permit applicant to designate and utilize the following existing horizontal unit wells: (a) the Apex Natural Gas, LLC-HA RA SUU;Forbing Bluff TBR 9 H No. 1 Well (SN 242027) as a horizontal alternate unit well for HA RA SUU; (b) the Apex Natural Gas, LLC-HA RA SU129;Forbing BLF TBR16H No. 1 Well (SN 242028) as a horizontal alternate unit well for HA RA SU129; and c) the Apex Natural Gas, LLC-HA RA SU133;Franks Inv Co 10 H No. 1 Well (SN 243582) as a horizontal alternate unit well for HA RA SU133, at the locations and in the general manner shown on the plats submitted with the application.
6. To find that the proposed cross unit horizontal wells for the subject units are necessary to efficiently and economically drain a portion of the Haynesville Zone, Reservoir A, and Lower Cotton Valley Zone, Reservoir A, underlying said units, which cannot be efficiently and economically drained by any existing wells within such units, will prevent waste, avoid the drilling of unnecessary wells, protect the correlative rights of and promote the full and efficient development of each of the affected units, including the portions of the participating units contained within 330' of either side of the common unit boundary between said units.
7. To provide that with respect to horizontal wells drilled to the Haynesville Zone, Reservoir A, and Lower Cotton Valley Zone, Reservoir A, within or to serve the subject units, where the horizontal portion of the well is cased and cemented back above the top of the Haynesville Zone, Reservoir A, and Lower Cotton Valley Zone, Reservoir A, respectively, 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 on the penetration point or terminus of the well.
8. To designate and/or confirm the applicant as the operator of subject units and the cross unit horizontal wells being designated to serve such units, as appropriate, and find that EGH Operating, LLC should continue as operator of the existing substitute unit well for LCV RA SU105, in exception to the single operator per unit policy of the Office of Permitting and Compliance.
9. To permit the unit operator(s) of each of the subject units to produce the unit allowable for each of said units from the respective unit well, substitute unit well, any alternate unit well(s) or from any combination thereof, at its discretion.
10. To provide that unit production from the proposed cross unit horizontal wells should be allocated between the subject units 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 portion of such cross unit horizontal wells to serve as unit line wells, 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 the units served by such wells, 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.
11. To provide that the applicant and EGH Operating, LLC should report production from the wells in which they each operate on LCV RA SU105 individually and separately from one another, and 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.
12. 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, Order No. 361-L, effective July 29, 2008, and amended and supplemented by the 361-L Series of Orders and Order No. 361-E, effective July 16, 1996, as amended and supplemented by the 361-E Series of Orders, and all applicable Statewide Orders.
13. To consider such other matters as may be pertinent.
The Haynesville Zone, Reservoir A, in the Cedar Grove Field, was defined in Order No. 967-C, effective August 12, 2008, and was redefined as to HA RA SUN by Order No. 967-C-8, effective January 19, 2010, and was redefined as to HA RA SUU by Order No. 967-C-11, effective August 31, 2010, and was redefined as HA RA SUDD and HA RA SUEE are concerned, as being the stratigraphic equivalent of that gas and condensate bearing zone encountered between the depths of 9,960' and 11,542' (electrical log measurements) in the Apex Natural Gas, LLC (formerly Petrohawk)-B&K Exploration 37 No. 1 Well, located in Irregular Section 37, Township 17 North, Range 13 West.
The Haynesville Zone, Reservoir A, in the Elm Grove Field, was defined in Order No. 361-L, effective July 29, 2008 as HA RA SUO is concerned, and was redefined as to HA RA SU129 by Order No. 361-L-99, effective August 31, 2010, and was redefined as to HA RA SU133 by Order No. 361-L-101, effective October 26, 2010, and the Lower Cotton Valley Zone, Reservoir A, was redefined insofar as to LCV RA SU105 by Order No. 361-E-492, effective June 3, 2008.
Plats are 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 2/5/26;2/10/26 S lck
IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT, IF YOU NEED ASSISTANCE AT THE HEARING, PLEASE CONTACT THE DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND ENERGY AT P.O. BOX 94275, BATON ROUGE, LA 70804-9275 IN WRITING WITHIN TEN (10) WORKING DAYS OF THE HEARING DATE.
1024-066.2
February 8 2026
LLOU0455693
Miscellaneous Notices