Decision 2006-102
https://had.aer.ca/link/decision4182
- Applicant
- EnCana Corporation
- Application Number
- 1393397
- Title
- Decision 2006-102: EnCana Corporation applications for licences for 15 wells, a pipeline, and a compressor addition, Wimborne and Twining Fields
- Date
- 2006
- Title
- Decision 2006-102: EnCana Corporation applications for licences for 15 wells, a pipeline, and a compressor addition, Wimborne and Twining Fields
- Date
- 2006
- Applicant
- EnCana Corporation
- Application Number
- 1393397
- Hearing Panel
- McCrank MN
- Dilay JD
- Miller GJ
- Hearing Type
- Board
- Category
- Well licence
- Pipelines
- Descriptors
- Battle Fm
- Bearpaw Fm
- Compressor station
- Directive 027
- Dispute resolution
- Drilling (Well)
- Gas processing plant
- Groundwater
- Horseshoe Canyon Fm
- NTS 83P
- Paskapoo Fm
- Pipeline
- Pipeline construction
- Scollard Fm
- Twining Field
- Well licence
- Water pollution
- Whitemud Fm
- Wimborne Field
- Legal References
- Pipeline Act Part 4
- Interveners
- Hoppins K
- Doering G
- Niemi K
- Howard L
- Approval
- Approved with conditions
- Conditions
- APPENDIX 1 SUMMARY OF COMMITMENTS AND CONDITIONS COMMITMENTS BY ENCANA
- Test all water wells within 400 m, 11 additional wells located between 400 m and 880 m, some springs in the area, and all high-yield water wells present within 1000 m of an EnCana well. CONDITIONS
- Measure the pressure between the tubing and casing annulus above the zones being fractured, note and explain any increased pressures, and report the findings to the EUB within five days of the fracturing operation.
- Install a groundwater monitoring well in the deepest aquifer immediately above the Battle Formation within 50 m of the EnCana well that has the shallowest surface casing depth. The water quality is to be determined prior to fracturing operations, and the water level is to be monitored continuously, commencing immediately prior to and continuing during and after fracturing operations, until the level has stabilized. The water quality testing is to be conducted in accordance with Alberta Environment’s Standard for Baseline Water-Well Testing for Coalbed Methane/Natural Gas in Coal Operations, April 2006. The results of this monitoring are to be reported to the Board and interveners within 30 days. Thereafter, monitoring will be done on a yearly basis and reported by December 1 of each year. This condition will be reviewed after the findings of the Shallow Fracturing Technical Committee are released or a period of five years.
- Ensure the noise level at EnCana’s facility remains within 25 dBA as measured at the Bauer residence under summertime conditions, as outlined in Table 3 of the Faszer Farquarson report, and within the EUB’s PSLs at all other times. Alternatively, EnCana could comply by demonstrating that the facility, when operating under the above conditions, is not audible above the ambient sound level, or Mr. D. Bauer could agree that the noise from the facility is acceptable under conditions that the resident believes represents a worst-case scenario.