BLM New Mexico Texas Oklahoma Kansas Master Development Plan Carlsbad Field Office Natural Resource Specialist Team September 23, 2014

BLM New Mexico Oklahoma Texas Kansas Carlsbad Field Office Master Development Plans Outline:  What is a MDP?  Need for MDP  CFO Workload  Benefits to MDP  MDP Process  Next Steps

BLM New Mexico Oklahoma Texas Kansas Master Development Plan 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

BLM New Mexico Oklahoma Texas Kansas Carlsbad Field Office Master Development Plans Need for MDP:  Sustainable and Multiple Land Management  Best Management Practices  Smarter Development  Reduce Repetitive Paperwork  Streamline Approval Process

BLM New Mexico Oklahoma Texas Kansas Carlsbad Field Office Master Development Plans  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

BLM New Mexico Oklahoma Texas Kansas Master Development Plan Increases processing efficiency by eliminating redundant paper work and duplicative environmental reviews of individual APDs. What are the Benefits?

BLM New Mexico Oklahoma Texas Kansas Master Development Plan 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.

BLM New Mexico Oklahoma Texas Kansas Master Development Plan 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.

BLM New Mexico Oklahoma Texas Kansas Master Development Plan 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

BLM New Mexico Oklahoma Texas Kansas Master Development Plan 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?

BLM New Mexico Oklahoma Texas Kansas Next Steps  Use of MDP Template  MDP Database  GIS needs  Cooperative Planning between Operators/Pipeline/Electric Companies

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