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FINAL REpORT Evaluation of Mineral Resources at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) Site Volume 3 Chapters IX-XII Westinghouse Electric Corporation Waste Isolation Division Contract No. PO-75-WJJ644145Z Chapter IX Chapter X- Chapter XI Chapter XII - Regulations Pertaining to Oil and Gas Drilling The Past-Decade Developments and Future Trends in Oil·Well Drilling, Completion, and Stimulation, with Special Applications to Developments At the WIPP Site Oil and Gas Resource Estimates Valuation of Oil and Gas Reserves at the WIPP Site, Additional Area, and Combined Area Submitted by New Mexico Bureau of Mines & Mineral Resources Campus Staiion Socorro, NM 87801 March 31, 1995 Information Only
Certificatioll _ We certify under penalty of law that this document was prepared under our supervision for Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Waste Isolation Division, Waste Isolation Pilot Plant by New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, a division of New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology. Based on our inquiry of the persons directly responsible for gathering the information, the information submitted is, to the best of our knowledge and belief, true, accurate, and complete. Charles E. Chapin, Principal Investigator Director and State Geologist New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources Clinton P. Richardson, P.E. . "Mining and Environmental Engineering New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology New Mexico Certification No. 11229 Expires December 31, 1995 Information Only
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FINAL REpORT Evaluation of Mineral
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY E-l The Waste Iso
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E-3 Resources and reserves of the 1
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£-5 Expected Net Present Values fo
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E-7 Expected revenue present values
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E-9 VOLUME 1 Chapter I POTENTIAL IN
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E-11 VOLUME 1 Chapter II ENVIRONMEN
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E-13 VOLUME 2 Chapter III OVERVIEW
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E-15 VOLUME 2 Chapter IV . FUTURE M
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E-17 VOLUME 2 Chapter VI MINING TEC
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E-19 VOLUME 2 Chapter VII METHOD OF
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E-23 VOLUME 2 Chapter VIII VALUATIO
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E-25 VOLUME 3 Chapter IX REGULATION
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E-29 PROJECTED FUTURE OIL AND GAS P
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E-31 Figure 27. Casing program of t
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E-35 Table 15E. Los Medanos Bone Sp
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E-37 Table 5. Expected Net Present
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Evaluation of Mineral Resources at
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I-I POTENTIAL INDUSTRIAL MINERAL RE
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The report, authored by C. M. Nethe
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With full access to the surface, th
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occurrences in the WIPP site for th
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depth of 1000 ft. Rustler gypsum un
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is 320 acres, (3) drilling restrict
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1120 acres. Based on hydrocarbon re
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ls of the crude oil (43%), 211 BCF
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obtained by use of a planimeter. Th
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1-19 Keesey, 1.1., 1979. (See Sipes
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Sipes, Williamson, and Aycock, 1977
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Table I. Evaluation of mineral reso
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Table I. (conL) Quantity present Pr
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1-27 Table 3. Effect of allowing th
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II-i TABLE OF CONTENTS ENVIRONMENTA
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II-ii New Mexicp Water Quality Act
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the Federal Register, National Arch
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II-4 U.S. Environmental Protection
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II-6 U.S. Environmental Protection
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• • • • Filing and other ad
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0-10 • Transfers (43 CFR 3106)
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Operations that involve subsurface
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Pennits. special reports. and fees
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RCRA Subtitle D - Solid Waste RCRA
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• National secondary drinking wat
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the withdrawal area that are leased
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• Notification requirements when
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New Mexico Naroral Resources Depamn
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Permits, special repons, and fees I
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II-28 Permits. special reports. and
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II-30 Operations that extract oil a
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industrial, commercial, mining, and
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• Prohibition on disposing of any
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References New Mexico Game and Fish
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Clean Air Act TABLE 1 hnpact level
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TABLE 1 hnpact level of statutes an
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TABLE 2 Impact level of statutes an
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FINAL REPORT Evaluation of Mineral
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Table 2. K 2 0 equivalent wt. % of
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The United States ranked fourth in
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have extensive sections of laminate
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poor potash deposits probably preci
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followed by froth flotation (Fig. 6
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Information Only III-ll Hayes P. T.
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III-13 Fig.!. Location of the Carls
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III-IS Figure 3. Diagrammatic north
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Fig. 5. Vertical cyclic sequences i
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Fig. 7. Simplified potash crystalli
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1lI-21 Table 2. KzO Equivalent wt.
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llI-23 Table 4. Potash Statistics f
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m-25 Table 6. General Mineralogy an
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IV-l FUTURE MI~lNG TECHNOLOGY Georg
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Along with the improvements listed
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Saskatchewan and in thick but highl
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V-i TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction
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Flotation chemistry Recently, non-e
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tures resulting in high salt solubi
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VI-ii Table 8. Case 1 - 4th ore zon
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Vl-2 of these three chemicals plus
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shows barrier pillars, but their us
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maintenance, and periodic replaceme
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Therefore, the engineering economic
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Vl-14 Table 1. Carlsbad Potash Prod
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Table 3. Salient potash l statistic
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Table 5. Case 1 - 4th ORE ZONE CASH
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Table 13. Case 3 - 4th ORE ZONE CAS
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Table 15. Case 3 • 10th ORE ZONE
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_------._._ Table 17. Summary of En
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Table 19. Mining Life Versus Cut-of
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VII-i TABLE OF CONTENTS FORMULATION
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VII-l MEmOD OF POTASH RESERVE EVALU
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VII-5 DEFINITIONS OF ORE RESERVES V
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Vll-7 hole records. That method can
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VII-9 tonnage factor equal to 14.8
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VlI-ll consistent with the known st
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VII-13 REFERENCES John, C. B., Chee
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VII-15 Table 2 Resources and reserv
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Table 4. In-ulace resources for oth
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VIII-I VIII VALUATION OF POTASH RES
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VIII-3 With respect to actual explo
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VIII-5 the simulation include: All
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VIII-9 Potash Simulation Example Ye
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Table 2. Expected revenue present v
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VIII-13 APPENDIX This Appendix cont
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VIII-IS Scenario 2, 15 % discount r
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VIII-17 Lang WIPP Site Data, Case 1
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VIII-19 Lang WIPP Site Data. Case 2
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I IX-52 Federal Register I Vol. 53.
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IX-56 CHECKLIST for ADMINISTRATIVE
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IX-58 Chapter IX REGULATIONS PERTAI
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'" IX-60 2 ehe U.S. !DVlro~t&l lro
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IX-62 Chapter IX REGULATIONS PERTAI
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IX-64 TABLE OF CONTENrS STATEMENT O
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IX-66 C. Wildlife The BLM shall: 1.
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IX-68 of the DOE (the contributing
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IX-72 MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING B
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IX-74 c. Use avoidance as the prima
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IX-76 and oilleasts adjacent to the
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IX-78 2. The DOr ail"ee3 to: a. For
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THE PAST-DECADE DEVELOPJ.\ilENTS At
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The POC bits and POC cutter blank m
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X-5 Other applications are explorat
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X-7 optimum production, completion,
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Cement additives Research during th
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1994). The productivity of a fractu
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Hydraulic fracturing - acidizing Th
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X-IS Concluding remarks Technology
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X-17 PennWell Books, Tulsa, OK, p.
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low-friction gauge PDC bits: Societ
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XI-i TABLE OF COl'iiENTS SUMMARY OF
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XI-iii Figure 14 Designated oil poo
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Xl·v and boundaries of designated
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XI-2 will be produced from the deep
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Definitions Several basic definitio
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CCcJ.. From these projections. esti
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ea"ons often do not yield a product
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Information Only XI-IO made it poss
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XI-12 Canyon production is in the T
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Information Only XI-14 the east. In
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Information Only XI-16 (Fig. 25). U
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discovery wells . Developmentdrilli
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the middle part of the Cherry Canyo
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Information Only XI-22 of approxima
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The sucker rods move vertic;i"y up
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Information Only XI-26 The authigen
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XI-28 fore, stratigraphic traps str
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interbedded with dark basinal shale
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(Fig. 51, Table 2) with probable re
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XI-34 Two wells have drilled throug
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Xl-36 that no such structure, and h
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XI-38 REFERENCES Anderson, R., 1977
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Xl-40 Guidebook 44, pp. 175-184. Kl
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Worthington, R. E., 1994, East Shug
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Figure 12. Annual number of oil and
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XI-46 response of oil production to
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XI-48 additional study area. Separa
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XI-50 Producing provi~ce. "'" Nonpr
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Los Medanos Atoka (Gas); Bass Enter
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Los Medanos Morrow (Gas); Conoco, I
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Los Medanos-Sand Dunes-Ingle Wells
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Quahada Ridge Southeast (Lower Brus
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Strawn Projected Future Annual Gas
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Morrow Projected Future Annual Gas
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TABLE 6. Surface and bottom-hole lo
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Table 15A. Livingston Ridge Delawar
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Table 15C. Cabin Lake Delaware pool
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Table 15E. Los Medanos Bone Spring
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TABLE 15F. (Continued) XI-131 Year
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~ TABLE 15G. (Continued) XI~133 Yea
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Table 16. Projected future annual o
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XII-i TABLE OF CONTENTS SUMMARY RES
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XII-2 additional area gas reserves
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Key assumptions and features associ
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contribute te alterations in the se
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XII-8 160 Combined Area Oil Revenue
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XII-IO 120 Combined Area Oil Revenu
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XII-12 Combined Area Oil Cash Flow
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XII-14 160 I 140 --r- I Combined Ar
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Oil Simulation Example XII-16 Year
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XII-18 Table 6. Expected revenue pr
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XII-20 WIPP Site Gas. 10% discount
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XII-22 WIPP Area Gas, 12.5% Royalti
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XII-24 Additional Area Gas, 12.5% R
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XIl-26 Combined Area Gas. 12.5% Roy
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XII-28 WIPP Area Gas, 12.5% Royalti
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XII-30 Additional Area Gas, 12.5% R
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XII-32 Combined Area Gas. 12.5% Roy
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XII-34 W1PP Site Gas Data, discount
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XII-38 Combined Area Gas Data, disc
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XII-40 W1PP Site Gas Data. discount
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XII-42 Additional Area Gas Data, di
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XII-44 Combined Area Gas Data. disc
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