BEFORE THE VIRGINIA GAS AND OIL BOARD APPLICANT: CNX Gas Company LLC DIVISION OF GAS AND OIL DOCKET VGOB 00-1017-0835-11 RELIEF SOUGHT: MODIFICATION OF MIDDLE RIDGE I FIELD RULES ORDER TO ALLOW A SECOND WELL TO BE DRILLED AFFECTED UNITS: AV127 See annexed Exhibit A1 NOTICE OF HEARING HEARING DATE: March 17, 2015 PLACE: Russell County Conference Center 135 Highlands Drive Lebanon, Virginia 24266 TIME: 9:00 AM COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA: To: Coal Mountain Mining Company Limited Partnership, LLP; CNX Gas Company LLC; Buford E. Short, et ux; Paul Osborne; Carol Sims, et vir; Dale Salyers, et ux; Jackie Davis, et ux; Tammy Widener 1. Applicant and its counsel: Applicant is CNX Gas Company LLC, 2481 John Nash Blvd., Bluefield, WV 24701. Applicant’s counsel is Mark A. Swartz, Hilliard & Swartz, LLP, 122 Capitol Street, FL 2, Charleston, WV 25301. 2. Relief sought: (1) Modification of the Middle Ridge I Coalbed Methane Gas Field Rule Order VGOB 00-1017-0835, effective October 17, 2000, as amended, to allow a second coalbed gas well to be drilled within each of the Middle Ridge I Units identified above. (2) An administrative order providing that additional well permits may be issued in the Middle Ridge Field after this application is filed and while it is pending. 3. Proposed provisions of order: That a second coalbed methane gas well may be drilled in each of the above referenced Middle Ridge I Units if same is located within the drilling windows of said units and is at least 600 feet from any other coalbed methane well; and that production/royalties from each coalbed methane well drilled in the said Units shall continue to be allocated solely to the owners and claimants of and to the coalbed methane within the Unit in which the well(s) is located. 4. Legal Authority: Va. Code Ann. ?45.1-361.20 and 4 VAC 25-160-50. 5. Type of well(s) and field: Coalbed methane wells and Middle Ridge I Coalbed Gas Field. 6. Your interest or claim in the unit sought to be created by this Application pertains to coal methane gas. 7. Formation(s) to be produced and estimates: All seams below the Jawbone I. See Middle Ridge I Coalbed Gas Field Rules, as amended. 8. Attestation: The foregoing notice to the best of my knowledge, information, and belief is true and correct. NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that this cause has been set for hearing and the taking of evidence before the Board at 9:00 AM, on March 17, 2015, at the Russell County Government Conference Center, 139 Highlands Drive, Lebanon, Virginia 24266, and that notice will be published as required by law and the Rules of the Board. DATED: Friday, February 13, 2015. CNX GAS COMPANY LLC BY ITS PROFESSIONAL MANAGER CNX GAS COMPANY LLC, PETITIONER By: Anita D. Duty Pooling Supervisor CNX Land LLC 2481 John Nash Blvd. Bluefield, WV 24701