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Participatory and Procedural Decisions

When a statement of concern is filed following an application, we decide whether a hearing is needed. If a hearing is needed, we issue a notice of hearing.

Before the hearing, the hearing panel must

  • consider any requests to participate in the hearing, and
  • decide on the nature and scope of participation for the hearing participants.

When we receive a request to appeal of one of our decisions, we must decide whether to grant all or part of the request. Formerly known as standing decisions, we now call these kinds of decisions, participation decisions.

The written participation decision sets out our reasons for our decision. We apply sections related to the holding of hearings or regulatory appeals in the Responsible Energy Development Act, among other rules and regulations.

Procedural Decisions 

Often, we must make procedural decisions that will determine the course of a proceeding or how the information is filed. Examples of these procedural decisions include

  • issuing confidentiality orders,
  • setting or extending deadlines to file information, and
  • establishing the scope of issues to be discussed in the hearing.

The principles of fairness and natural justice apply to all AER proceedings. When making procedural decisions, we apply the Alberta Energy Regulator Rules of Practice.

Decision TypeApplication NumberCompany NameDescriptionDate Sort ascending
Statement of Concern Decision - Late Filing1827947Value Creation Inc.

Decision on late filing of statement of concern

Statement of Concern Decision - No Hearing1837600Penn West Petroleum Limited

This is an amendment to an existing facility located at 15-22-84-15W5M, Licence F42695

Statement of Concern Decision - No Hearing1835409, etc.Shell Canada Ltd.

Letter sent to SOC filer regarding filing of personal information

Statement of Concern Decision - No Hearing1840350Penn West Petroleum Limited

This is an amendment to an existing facility located at 16-25-082-18W5M, Licence F42357

Statement of Concern Decision - No Hearing1837505Murphy Oil Company Limited

Application for two new horizontal C290 wells to obtain crude bitumen production at the surface location 8-23-84-15W5M

Statement of Concern Decision - No Hearing1839769Penn West Petroleum Limited

This application is to drill a B140 horizontal well at the surface location 13-05-083-17W5M for the production of crude bitumen.

Statement of Concern Decision - No Hearing1840328Penn West Petroleum Ltd.

The facility will be a C331, multi-well bitumen battery.

Statement of Concern Decision - No Hearing1836303, etc.Baytex Energy Limited

5 applications for oil sands evaluation wells

Statement of Concern Decision - No Hearing1837324Baytex Energy Ltd.

This is an amendment to an existing facility, F47880, to change maximum continuous flaring and continuous sulphur emissions

Statement of Concern Decision - No Hearing1835552, etc.Shell Canada Ltd.

Letter sent to SOC filer regarding filing of personal information