EL PASO NATURAL GAS v. AMERICAN PETROFINA

No. 01-84-0350-CV.

733 S.W.2d 541 (1986)

EL PASO NATURAL GAS COMPANY, Appellant, v. AMERICAN PETROFINA COMPANY OF TEXAS, et al., Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Houston (1st Dist.).

Rehearing Denied December 30, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert J. King, Gary C. Conine, D. Mitchell McFarland, Patricia L. Jones, Liddell, Sapp & Zivley, Houston, Donald J. Maclver, Jr., Arthur R. Formanek, El Paso Natural Gas Co., El Paso, Rush Moody, Jr., Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, Washington, D.C., for appellant.

R. Gordon Gooch, Charles M. Darling, IV, Diana E. Marshall, Steven R. Hunsicker, John W. Leslie, Dennis J. Moss, Baker & Botts, Washington, D.C. and Houston, James V. Hammett, Jr., Stubbeman, McRae, Sealy, Laughlin & Browder, Houston, David T. Harvin, Vinson & Elkins, Houston, J.O. Terrell Couch, Hutcheson & Grundy, Houston, for appellees.

Before WARREN and SAM BASS, JJ., and BERT TUNKS, Retired Justice.


OPINION

BERT TUNKS, Retired Justice.

El Paso Natural Gas Company is, and has been for many years, a major interstate natural gas pipeline. As such, it owns and operates about 9,500 gas producing wells. Its gas delivery system consists of 21,000 miles of pipeline and necessary facilities connected therewith. Three thousand two hundred of its gas wells are on property located in the San Juan Basin in New Mexico and are the subjects of the assignments the validity...

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