Communication from the Kingdom of Belgium in connection with Directive 94/22/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the conditions for granting and using authorisations for the prospection, exploration and production of hydrocarbons (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2007-09-11
Institutions: Belgium
Subjects: Belgium, energy site, exploitation of resources, hydrocarbon, mineral prospecting

C 212/14

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Official Journal of the European Union

11.9.2007

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Communication from the Kingdom of Belgium in connection with Directive 94/22/EC of the
European Parliament and of the Council on the conditions for granting and using authorisations for
the prospection, exploration and production of hydrocarbons

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2007/C 212/13)

By request of 15 December 2006 the undertaking Laxtron Belgium NV, with its head office at Alfons De
Baeckestraat 12, B-8200 Bruges, has applied for a licence, for a period of 30 years, to prospect for and
produce oil and gas (hydrocarbons) in the Limburg and Antwerp Campine region.

The area to be covered by the licence applied for is 102 119 ha, with a perimeter of approximately 193 km.
The gas reserves under consideration should be at a depth of between 500 m and 2 000 m.

The following list summarises the positions of the vertices of the boundaries of the area in question
between point 924 (point on the Belgian-Dutch border near Bichterweerd) and boundary stone 205. The
coordinates are given in the Belgian Lambert projection of 1972.

Point

0

924

925

926

927

928

929

930

931

932

933

934

935

936

X (km)

198 892

248 314

245 851

241 509

237 498

235 096

230 477

230 479

227 808

227 877

223 715

223 709

222 369

220 740

Y (km)

231 758

194 246

193 676

192 704

191 845

191 282

189 035

188 531

188 125

192 759

196 425

196 675

196 353

195 935

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Point

937

938

939

940

X (km)

215 717

210 098

208 855

206 187

Y (km)

197 649

199 565

199 948

200 899

Submission of applications

The person submitting the original application and undertakings submitting competing applications must
satisfy the conditions laid down in Royal Decree No 83 of 28 November 1939 concerning the prospection
and production of bituminous rocks, oil and gas (Belgisch Staatsblad/Moniteur Belge of 8 December 1939)
and in the Decree of the Flemish Government of 23 July 1997 on the form and procedure for examining
applications for licences to explore for and produce oil and gas (Belgisch Staatsblad/Moniteur Belge of
8 October 1997).

Anyone wishing to prospect for and/or produce hydrocarbons in the area covered by the original application
or in part of that area may likewise submit an application to the Flemish Government by registered letter
within ninety days of the publication of this communication. Applications must be submitted to the
following address:

Vlaamse overheid
Departement Leefmilieu, Natuur en Energie
Afdeling Land en Bodembescherming, Ondergrond, Natuurlijke Rijkdommen
Koning Albert II laan 20, bus 20
B-1000 Brussel

Decisions on the original application and any competing applications will be taken within 200 days of the
date of publication of this communication.

Further information is obtainable from the above address.

All of the abovementioned legislation may be consulted on the website:

http://www.just.fgov.be/.