NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

STATE OF MONTANA

DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND CONSERVATION

BOARD OF OIL AND GAS CONSERVATION

BILLINGS, MONTANA

March 7 & 8, 2012

CONSERVATION AND PREVENTION )

OF WASTE OF OIL AND GAS )

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

The Board of Oil and Gas Conservation will hold its regular business meeting at 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday, March 7, 2012, in the hearing room at its office at 2535 St. Johns Avenue in Billings, Montana. The agenda for that meeting is as follows: 

Call to order

Approval of minutes of December 12, 2011 business meeting 

Opportunity for public comment

Mountain Pacific General Inc. – status update

Ostby request for rehearing: Docket 462-2011 (Board Order 380-2011). If the request is granted, this matter will be heard Thursday, March 8, 2012, as Docket 1-2012.

Financial report

Bond summary

Docket summary

Staff reports

Other business

The Board will conduct public hearings pursuant to Chapter 11 of Title 82 of the Montana Code Annotated on the matters described below at 8:00 a.m. on Thursday, March 8, 2012, in the hearing room at its office at 2535 St. Johns Avenue in Billings, Montana. For more information or to request accommodation for a disability, please contact Terri Perrigo at (406) 444-6970 or Tom Richmond at (406) 656-0040 as soon as possible before the scheduled hearing.

Docket 115-2012

SHOW CAUSE HEARING

RESPONDENT:  ATHENA ENERGY, LLC – LIBERTY, HILL AND VALLEY COUNTIES, MONTANA

Upon the Board’s own motion to require Athena Energy, LLC to appear and show cause, if any it has, why its bond should not be forfeited for its failure to plug and abandon its wells located in Liberty, Hill and Valley counties, Montana, 

BOARD OF OIL AND GAS CONSERVATION

/s/ Terri H. Perrigo

Executive Secretary

(Published Feb. 22, 2012)