TEXACO, INC. v. UDALL

Civ. A. No. 446-68.

295 F.Supp. 1297 (1969)

TEXACO, INC., Plaintiff, v. Stewart L. UDALL, Secretary of the Interior, Defendant.

United States District Court District of Columbia.

February 7, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John J. Wilson, Whiteford, Hart, Carmody & Wilson, Washington, D. C., Paul F. Schlicher, New York City, Richard S. Lake, New Orleans, La., Stanley D. Robinson, Allen Kezsbom, New York City, for plaintiff.

Edmund B. Clark, Clyde O. Martz, John G. Gill, Jr., Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for defendant.


OPINION

SIRICA, District Judge.

This case concerns the boundaries of an oil and gas lease off the coast of Louisiana. It is one phase in the development of a body of law to regulate the exploitation of our undersea resources.

In 1936, Texaco, Inc. initially leased certain beds and bottoms of water bodies off-shore from Louisiana for gas and oil development.1 The lease covered...

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