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IN THE UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY COURT

FOR THE DISTRICT OF DELAWARE

In re:

) Chapter 11

PACIFIC ENERGY RESOURCES LTD., et al., i


Debtor.

) Case No. 09-10785 (KJC)


) (Jointly Administered)

)
Related to Docket Nos. 998,999,1000

Requested Deadline for Objections: October 27, 2009 at 4:00 p.m. Eastern time Requested Hearing Date: November 3,2009 at 10:00 a.m. Eastern time

DEBTORS' MOTION TO SHORTEN THE NOTICE PERIOD FOR


HEARING ON DEBTORS' MOTION FOR AN ORDER (A) V ACA TING THIS COURT'S ABANDONMENT ORDER IN PART FOR CERTAIN ALASKA ASSETS AND (B) AUTHORIZING THE DEBTORS TO SELL SUCH ASSETS TO COOK INLET ENERGY. LLC
The above-captioned debtors and debtors in possession (collectively, the "Debtors")

hereby move this Court (the "Motion to Shorten") for an Order shortening the notice period for
the hearing on Debtors' Motion/or an Order (a) Vacating This Court's Abandonment Order in
Part/or Certain Alaska Assets and (b) Authorizing the Debtors to Sell Such Assets to Cook Inlet

Energy, LLC (the "Reconsideration and Sale Motion") (Docket No. 998).2
On October 14,2009, the Debtors fied (1) the Reconsideration and Sale Motion, (2) the

Notice 0/ Date and Time o/Sale Hearing Re Debtors' Motion/or an Order (a) Vacating This

Court's Abandonment Order in Part/or Certain Alaska Assets and (b) Authorizing the Debtors
i The Debtors in these cases, along with the last four digits of each Debtor's federal tax identification number, are: Pacific Energy Resources Ltd. (3442); Petrocal Acquisition Corp. (6249); Pacific Energy Alaska Holdings LLC (tax 1.0. # not available); Cameros Acquisition Corp. (5866); Pacific Energy Alaska Operating LLC (7021); San Pedro Bay Pipeline Company (1234); Cameros Energy, Inc. (9487); and Gotland Oil, Inc. (5463). The address for all of
the Debtors is III W. Ocean Boulevard, Suite 1240, Long Beach, CA.

2 Unless otherwise defined herein, all capitalized terms shall have the meanings ascribed to them in the

Reconsideration and Sale Motion.

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to Sell Such Assets to Cook Inlet Energy, LLC (the "Sale Hearing Notice") (Docket No. 999), and

(3) the Notice to Counterparties to Executory Contracts and Unexpired Leases that May Be
Assumed and Assigned (the "Cure Notice") (Docket No.;! 000). The Reconsideration and Sale
Motion, the Sale Hearing Notice and the Cure Notice are. hereinafter collectively referred to as

the "Sale Pleadings". The'Reconsideration and Sale Motion seeks an order of the Bankuptcy
Court (1) vacating its Order Granting Alternative Motiotl of the Debtors for an Order
Authorizing Abandonment of

Certain Interests in Oil and Gas Properties in Alaska (Excluding

Trading Bay) and Rejection of Executory Contracts Relating Thereto entered on September 11,
2009 (the "Abandonment Order") (Docket No. 876) as it relates to certain of

the Sold Assets

(defined below) and (2) approval of (a) the sale by the Debtors to Cook Inlet Pipeline, LLC (the
"Buyer") of certain of

the Debtors' assets (the "Sold Assets") located in Alaska, consisting

generiiy ofPEAO's interests in leased oil and gas production and exploration assets located in
Alaska (and related assets) that were formerly operated by PERL or presently operated by
Aurora Gas, LLC (an entity that is unrelated to the Debtors), other than other certain oil and gas leases and related assets located in the Redoubt Unit as well as other Excluded Items (as defined

in the Purchase and Sale Agreement, which is attached to the Reconsideration and Sale Motion
as Exhibit A), and (b) the assumption by the Debtors and assignment to the Buyer of certain

contracts and leases pursuant to section 365 of

, ,

. .

the Bankruptcy Code.


the Debtors

Debtors' served the Sale Hearing Notice by overnight mail on all creditors of

on October 14,2009, served the Sale Pleadings on counsel for Union Oil of California by email
on October 14,2009, and, of course, all paries that have

'requested notice ofECF fiings

received electronic notice ofthe Sale Pleading when they'were filed. However, the Debtors
missed the overnight delivery deadline on October 14,2009, for service of

the Reconsideration

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and Sale Motion and the Cure Notice on the required paries, and, therefore, those pleadings
were served on the required parties by overnight delivery on October 15,2009.
The next scheduled omnibus hearing date in these chapter 11 cases is November 3,2009.
The Sale Pleadings, because the Debtors expected to meet the service deadline for that hearing

date, scheduled November 3, 2009, as the hearing date for the Reconsideration and Sale Motion

and October 27,2009, the regular deadline for objections to motions being heard on that hearing
date, as the objection deadline.

Debtors respectfully submit that service by overnight delivery as set forth above is

suffcient notice of a November 3, 2009 hearing on the Reconsideration and Sale Motion and to
provide parties in interest an opportunity to review and, if

necessary, respond to the

Reconsideration and Sale Motion because the Notice of Sale Hearing was served in a timely
manner on all creditors, parties who have requested such notice received timely notice of

the

hearing and objection deadline through Pacer, and the Reconsideration and Sale Motion, served
,

by overnight delivery on October 15,2009, wil be delivered on October 16, 2009, giving parties
a full eighteen (18) days notice of the hearing and ten (10) days to file any responses or

objections. Accordingly, under the circumstances, the Debtors submit that shortening the time
for notice on the Reconsideration and Sale Motion in accordance with the foregoing and
approving the scheduling of

the hearing for November 3, 2009, wil not prejudice the rights of

any pary in interest.

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WHEREFORE, the Debtors respectfully request.the entry of an Order approving (1) the
shortening of the notice period as set forth above, (2) the scheduling of

the hearing on the

Reconsideration and Sale Motion on November 3,2009 at 10:00 a.m., and (3) the October 27,

2009, deadline for fiing responses or objections to the Reconsideration and Sale Motion
Dated: October 16,2009

PACHULSKI STANG ZIEHL & JONES LLP

By Isl Kathleen P. Makowski


Ira D. Kharasch (CA Bar No.1 09084) Maxim B. Litvak (CA Bar No. 215852) Robert M. Saunders (CA Bar No. 226172) Scotta E. McFarland (Bar No. 4184) Kathleen P. Makowski (Bar No. 3648) 919 North Market Street, 1 ih Floor P.O. Box 8705 Wilmington, DE 19899-8705
Telphone: 302/652-4100 Facsimile: 3101652-4400 Email: ikharasch~pszjlaw.com

mlitvak~pszj law.com
rsaunders~pszj law .com

smcfarland~pszyjlaw.com
Counsel for Debtors and Debtors in Possession

:\;

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IN THE UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY COURT


FOR THE DISTRICT OF DELAWARE

In re:
PACIFIC ENERGY RESOURCES L TD, et aI., i

) Chapter 11

)
) Case No. 09-10785 (KJC)
) (Jointly Administered)

Debtor.

)
Related to Docket No.

ORDER GRANTING DEBTORS' MOTION TO SHORTEN THE NOTICE PERIOD FOR HEARING ON DEBTORS' MOTION FOR AN ORDER (A) V ACA TING THIS COURT'S ABANDONMENT ORDER IN PART FOR CERTAIN ALASKA ASSETS AND (B) AUTHORIZING THE DEBTORS TO SELL SUCH ASSETS TO COOK INLET ENERGY. LLC
Upon consideration of Debtors' Motion to Shorten the Notice Periodfor Hearing
on Debtors' Motionfor an Order (a) Vacating This Court's Abandonment Order in Partfor

Certain Alaska Assets and (b) Authorizing the Debtors to Sell Such Assets to Cook Inlet Energy,

LLC (the "Motion to Shorten"),2 it is hereby

ORDERED that the Motion to Shorten is granted; and it is further

ORDERED that the hearing on Debtors' Motionfor an Order (a) Vacating This
Court's Abandonment Order in Part for Certain Alaska Assets and (b) Authorizing the Debtors
to Sell Such Assets to Cook Inlet Energy, LLC (the "Reconsideration and Sale Motion") is

i The Debtors in these cases, along with the last four digits of each Debtor's federal tax identification number, are:

Pacific Energy Resources Ltd. (3442); Petrocal Acquisition Corp. (6249); Pacific Energy Alaska Holdings LLC (tax I.D. # not available); Cameros Acquisition Corp. (5866); Pacific Energy Alaska Operating LLC (7021); San Pedro Bay Pipeline Company (1234); Cameros Energy, Inc. (9487); and Gotland Oil, Inc. (5463). The address for all of
the Debtors is 1 I 1 W. Ocean Boulevard, Suite 1240, Long Beach, CA.

2 Unless otherwise defined herein, all capitalized terms shall have the meanings ascribed to them in the
Reconsideration and Sale Motion.

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scheduled for November 3, 2009 at 10:00 a.m. prevailng Eastern Time; and it is further
ORDERED that the deadline to object olrespond to the Reconsideration and Sale
Motion is set for October 27,2009 at 4:00 p.m. prevailng Eastern Time; and it is further

ORDERED that counsel for the Debtors shall, within one business day of entry of
this Order, serve a copy of

this Order, by first class mail,and/or electronic mail, on the parties

originally served with the Reconsideration and Sale Motion.

Dated: October _, 2009

Honorable Kevin J. Carey Chief United States Bankruptcy Judge

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IN THE UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY COURT

In re: )
STATE OF DELAWARE )
) ss:

FOR THE DISTRICT OF DELA WARE


Chapter 11

)
)

PACIFIC ENERGY RESOURCES LTD., et al., i )

Debtors. )

Case No. 09-10785 (KJe) (Jointly Administered)

AFFIDAVIT OF SERVICE

COUNTY OF NEW CASTLE )


Kathleen Forte Finlayson, being duly sworn according to law, deposes and says that she
is employed by the law firm of

Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones LLP, attorneys for the Debtors in

the above-captioned action, and that on the 16th day of October, 2009 she caused a copy of the

following document(s) to be served upon the parties on the attached service lists in the manner
indicated:

Debtors' Motion to Shorten Notice Period for Hearing on Debtors' Motion for Order (A) Vacating Court's Abandonment Order in Part for Certain Alaska Assets and (B) Authorizing Debtors to Sell such Assets to Cook Inlet Energy, LLC

DEBR L YOU
NOTARY PUBIC STATE OF DELAWAR
Mr _miili ti Jt 11, 2011

i The Debtors in these cases, along with the last four digits of each ofthe Debtors' federal tax identification
number, are: Pacific Energy Resources Ltd. (3442); Petrocal Acquisition Corp. (6249); Pacific Energy Alaska

Holdings, LLC (tax I.D. # not available); Cameros Acquisition Corp. (5866); Pacific Energy Alaska Operating LLC (7021); San Pedro Bay Pipeline Company (1234); Cameros Energy, Inc. (9487); and Gotland Oil, Inc. (5463). The mailing address for all of the Debtors is III W. Ocean Boulevard, Suite 1240, Long Beach, CA 90802.

Pacific Energy Resources Ltd. 2002 Service List


Case No. 09-10785
Document No. 145745

14 - Hand Delivery
43 - First Class Mail 02 - FOREIGN First Class Mail

Hand Delivery (United States Attorney) Ellen W. Slights, Esq. United States Attorney's Office District of Delaware
1007 N. Orange Street, Suite 700

Wilmington, DE 19801
Hand Delivery (Counsel for Silver Point Finance) Ian S. Fredericks, Esquire
Skadden Ars, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Counsel for Debtors) Laura Davis Jones, Esquire James E. O'Neil, Esquire Kathleen P. Makowski, Esquire Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones LLP 919 North Market Street, 17th Floor P.O. Box 8705 Wilmington, DE 19899-8705
Interoffce Pouch to Los Angeles

One Rodney Square P.O. Box 636 Wilmington, DE 19899

Counsel for Debtors) Robert M. Saunders, Esquire Ira D. Kharasch, Esquire Scotia E. McFarland, Esquire Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones LLP
10100 Santa Monica Blvd., 11 th Floor

Hand Delivery (Counsel for J. Aron & Company) Don A. Beskrone, Esquire Amanda M. Winfree, Esquire Ashby & Geddes, P.A.
500 Delaware Avenue, 8th Floor

Wilmington, DE 19899
Hand Delivery (Counsel for Union Oil Company of California, a California Corporation) Norman M. Monhait, Esquire Rosenthal, Monhait & Goddess, P A
Citizens Ban Center, Suite 1401

Los Angeles, CA 90067


Hand Delivery (United States Trustee) Joseph McMahon, Esquire the United States Trustee Office of J. Caleb Boggs Federal Building 844 North King Street, Suite 2207
Lockbox 35

919 Market Street, P.O. Box 1070 Wilmington, DE 19899


Hand Delivery (Counsel for Westchester Fire Insurance Company and Noble Energy Inc.) Tobey M. Daluz, Esquire Joshua E. Zugerman, Esquire Ballard Spah Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP 919 N. Market Street, ith Floor Wilmington, DE 19801

Wilmington, DE 19801
Hand Delivery (Copy Service)
Parcels, Inc.

Vito i. DiMaio 230 N. Market Street Wilmington, DE 19801

Hand Delivery (Counsel for Oxy Long Beach Inc.) David L. Finger, Esquire
Finder, Slanina Liebesman, LLC

Hand Delivery

(Counsel for Amadon Limited and


Catherwood Limited) Mark E. Felger, Esquire Cozen 0' Connor 1201 N. Market Street, Suite 1400 Wilmington, DE 19801
Hand Delivery (Counsel for Forest Oil Corporation) Robert J. Dehney, Esquire
Curis S. Miler, Esquire

One Commerce Center


1201 N. Orange St., 7th Floor

Wilmington, DE 19801
Hand Delivery
Unsecured Creditors) David B. Stratton, Esquire James C. Carignan, Esquire Pepper Hamilton LLP
(Official Committee of

Hercules Plaza, Suite 1500

Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunell LLP 1201 N. Market Street Wilmington, DE 19899

1313 Market Street Wilmington, DE 19899

First Class Mail


(United States Attorney General) Eric H. Holder, Jr. Office of the Attorney General U.S. Department of Justice 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, DC 20530-0002

Hand Delivery (Counsel for Marathon Oil Company) Kevin 1. Mangan, Esquire Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC 222 Delaware Avenue, Suite 1501 Wilmington, DE 19801 Hand Delivery (Counsel for Cook Inlet Region, Inc.) Eric Lopez Schnabel, Esquire Dorsey & Whitney (Delaware) LLP
1105 North Market Street, Suite 16th Floor

First Class Mail


Secretary of State Division of Corporations Franchise Tax P.O. Box 7040 Dover, DE 19903

Wilmington, DE 19801

First Class Mail


Hand Delivery (Counsel for Area Energy LLC) Norman L. Pernick, Esquire Karen M. McKinley, Esquire Cole, Schotz, Meisel, Forman & Leonard, P.A. 500 Delaware Avenue, Suite 1410 Wilmington, DE 19801
Secretary of Treasury P.O. Box 7040 Dover, DE 19903

First Class Mail


Secretary of Treasury 15th & Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, DC 20220

First Class Mail


Attn: Insolvency

First Class Mail


Chevron Oil Company
Attn: Steven Lastraps

District Director Internal Revenue Service 31 Hopkins Plaza, Room 1150 Baltimore, MD 21201

3800 Centerpoint Drive, Suite 100 Anchorage, AK 99503

First Class Mail

First Class Mail


Internal Revenue Service P.O. Box 21126 Philadelphia, P A 19114-0326

California Franchise Tax Board Bankuptcy, BE MSA 345 P.O. Box 2952 Sacramento, CA 95812-2952

First Class Mail


Attn: Insolvency Internal Revenue Service
1352 Marrows Road, 2nd Floor
Newark, DE 19711-5445

First Class Mail


Aera Energy LLC
10000 Ming A venue

Bakersfield, CA 93311-1164

First Class Mail

First Class Mail


Mark Schonfeld, Esq. Regional Director Securities & Exchange Commission New York Regional Office 3 World Financial Center, Suite 400 New York, NY 10281-1022

SWEPI LP

P.O. Box 576 Houston, TX 77002-0576

First Class Mail


Noble Energy, Inc.

100 Glenborough, Suite 100 Houston, TX 77067

First Class Mail


Michael A. Berman, Esq. Securities & Exchange Commission Offce of General Counsel-Bankptcy 100 F Street, N.E. Washington, DC 20549

First Class Mail


(Counsel to Silver Point Finance) Seth Jacobs, Esquire

Ana Meresidis, Esquire Skadden, Ars, Slate, Meagher & Flom,


LLP 155 N. Wacker Drive, Suite 2700 Chicago, IL 60606-1720

First Class Mail


Matthew Berry, Esquire Office of General Counsel Federal Communications Commission
445 iih Street, S.W.

First Class Mail


(Counsel to Goldman Sachs and J.Aron & Company) Jeffrey Sabin, Esquire Steven Wilamowsky, Esquire Scott K. Seamon, Esquire
Bingham McCutchen LLP

Washington, DC 20554

First Class Mail


POLLARD WIRELINE P.O. Box 1360 Kenai, AK 99611

399 Park Avenue New York, NY 10022

First Class Mail


(Counsel to Goldman Sachs and J.Aron & Company) Amy Kyle Bingham McCutchen (Boston) One Federal Street Boston, MA 01221-1726

First Class Mail (Counsel to United States Deparment of


Interior, including the Minerals
Management Service)

E. Kathleen Shahan, Esquire U.S. Deparment of Justice 1100 L Street, NW Washington, D.C. 20005

First Class Mail


Linda Lautigar

First Class Mail


(Counsel for Westchester Fire Insurance Company) Robert McL. Boote, Esquire Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP
1735 Market Street, 51 st Floor

Bankptcy Coordinator
MMS I Denver Federal Center POBox 25165 Mail Stop 370B2 Denver, CO 80225

Philadelphia, P A 19103

First Class Mail


Kristina Engelbert RDI Royalty Distributors, Inc. PO Box 24116 Tempe, AZ 85285

First Class Mail


(Counsel for Rosecrans Energy, Ltd. And
Sherwin D. Y oe1in)

First Class Mail


MTGLQ Investors, L.P. 85 Broad Street New York, New York 10004

John J. Harris, Esquire Rachel M. Feiertag, Esquire Meyers, Nave, Riback, Silver & Wilson 333 South Grand Avenue, Suite 1670 Los Angeles, CA 90071

First Class Mail

First Class Mail


Goldman Sachs E&P Capital
Attn: Matthew C. Tarver

(Counsel for Oxy Long Beach Inc.) Richard M. Kremen, Esquire


Jodie E. Buchman, Esquire

1000 Louisiana, Suite 550 Houston, Texas 77002

DLA Piper LLP (US)


6225 Smith Avenue

Baltimore, MD 21209

First Class Mail


SPCP Group, L.L.C.
Two Greenwich Plaza, 1 st Floor

First Class Mail


(Counsel for Noble Energy Inc.) Rhett G. Campbell, Esquire Mitchell E. Ayer, Esquire Thompson & Knight LLP 333 Clay Street, Suite 3300 Houston, TX 770022

Greenwich, CT 06830

First Class Mail


Seth E. Jacobson, Esquire L. Byron Vance III, Esquire Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP 155 N. Wacker Drive, Suite 2700 Chicago, IL 60606-1720

First Class Mail


(Offcial Committee of

First Class Mail


Unsecured

Creditors) Francis J. Lawall, Esquire Pepper Hamilton LLP 3000 Two Logan Square Eighteenth & Arch Streets Philadelphia, P A 19103

(Counsel for DCFS Trust subservicer for


DCFS Trust)

Martin A. Mooney, Esquire Deily, Mooney & Glastetter, LLP 8 Thurlow Terrace Albany, NY 12203

First Class Mail

First Class Mail


(Official Committee of

Unsecured

Creditors) Filiberto Agusti, Esquire


Steven Reed, Esquire

(Counsel for Aera Energy LLC) Steven E. Rich, Esquire Mayer Brown LLP
350 South Grand Avenue, 25th Floor

Los Angeles, CA 90071

Joshua Taylor, Esquire Steptoe & Johnson LLP 1330 Connecticut Avenue NW Washington, DC 20036

First Class Mail


(Claims representative for the County of Kern)

Attn: Banptcy Division


First Class Mail
Unsecured Creditors) Robbin Itkin, Esquire Katherine Piper, Esquire Kelly Frazier, Esquire Steptoe & Johnson LLP 2121 Avenue of the Stars, 28th Floor Los Angeles, CA 90067
(Official Committee of

clo Linda Delgado P.O. Box 579 Bakersfield, CA 93302

First Class Mail


Aurora Gas LLC 6051 North Course Drive, Suite 200 Houston, TX 77043

First Class Mail

First Class Mail


(Counsel for Cook Inlet Region, Inc.)
Michael R. Mils, Esquire

Dorsey & Whitney LLP


1031 W. 4th Ave., Suite 600

Anchorage, AK 99501

First Class Mail


(Counsel for the State of Alaska) Lorenzo Marinuzzi, Esquire Morrison & Foerster LLP 1290 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10104

(Counsel for Union Oil Company of California) Richard L. Epling, Esquire David A. Crichlow, Esquire Roger Elder, Esquire Pilsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP 1540 Broadway New York, NY 10036

First Class Mail


(Counsel for Minerals Management Service)

DeAn L. Owen, Esquire


Office of

the Solicitor, Rocky Mountain

Region
755 Parfet Street, Suite 151

Lakewood, CO 80215

First Class Mail


(Counsel for Ammadon Limited and Catherwood Limited) Philip M. Abelson, Esquire Dewey & Leboeuf LLP
1301 Avenue of

the Americas

New York, NY 10019

First Class Mail


(Counsel for Forest Oil Corporation) Steven M. Abramowitz, Esquire Ronald L. Oran, Esquire Vinson & Elkins
666 Fifth Avenue, 26th Floor

New York, NY 10103

FOREIGN First Class Mail


TSX Kerry D. Krochak, B.A., LL.B. Manager, Listed Issuer Services Toronto Stock Exchange 300 Fifth Avenue SA, 10th Floor Calgary, AB T2P 3C4

FOREIGN First Class Mail


(Transfer Agents)
Bernadette Vilarica

Relationship Manager, Client Services


Computershare Investor Services Inc. 510 Burrard Street, 3rd Floor

Vancouver, BC V6C 3B9

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