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Master Development Plan

Carlsbad Field Office Natural Resource Specialist TeamSeptember 23, 2014

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Master Development Plans

Outline:What is a MDP?Need for MDPCFO WorkloadBenefits to MDPMDP ProcessNext Steps

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What is a MDP?

• Submission format for two or more APDs. • Share a common Drilling Program

• Share a common Surface Use Program

• Share common plans for future production

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Need for MDP:Sustainable and Multiple Land

ManagementBest Management PracticesSmarter DevelopmentReduce Repetitive Paperwork Streamline Approval Process

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Budget Reduction Vacant Positions Resource Management

Plan Revisal Listing of the Lesser

Prairie Chicken Potential listing of the

Dunes Sagebrush Lizard

2013 1,829 NEPA Projects 900 APD’s 6,600 Sundries 932 ROW’s

2014 1,531 NEPA Projects to Date 928 APD’s (June 2014) 6,180 Sundries (June 2014) 589 ROW’s (Pending)

Carlsbad Field Office Issues

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Increases processing efficiency by eliminating redundant paper work and duplicative environmental reviews of individual APDs.

What are the Benefits?

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What are the Benefits?

Ability to better plan for field development, work around constraints, and minimize environmental impacts from access routes, production facilities, flowlines, and utilities. Simplifies NEPA process.

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What are the Benefits?

• Allows for analysis of the site specific and cumulative effects of all oil and gas development in relation to other resource uses, in one public process, rather than analyzing APDs individually through multiple and often redundant NEPA documents.

• Reduces the need for additional site-specific NEPA analysis.

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Where is a MDP Appropriate?

• Intense drilling activity (planned cluster of wells or pods)

• In-fill drilling (multiple in-fill wells scattered throughout field)

• Production of drilled wells is a certainty

• Similar subsurface geology

• Similar producing zones

• Similar surface resources

• Similar environmental issues

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• The information within a MDP does not have to be repeated within the individual APD.

• APD that references MDP

• Survey plat

What is the Process?

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Next Steps

Use of MDP Template MDP Database GIS needs Cooperative Planning between

Operators/Pipeline/Electric Companies

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