UNION OIL CO. OF CAL. v. STATE, DEPT. OF NAT. RESOURCES

No. 2025.

526 P.2d 1357 (1974)

UNION OIL COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA and Marathon Oil Company, Appellants, v. STATE of Alaska, DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

October 4, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

D.A. Burr, Paul A. Williams, of Burr, Pease & Kurtz, Anchorage, for appellant.

John A. Reeder, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Anchorage, Norman C. Gorsuch, Atty. Gen., Juneau, for appellee.

Before RABINOWITZ, C.J., and CONNOR, ERWIN, BOOCHEVER and FITZGERALD, JJ.


OPINION

CONNOR, Justice.

This is an appeal from an administrative determination. The questions for review concern the procedure for administrative and judicial review of a decision by the Division of Lands, Department of Natural Resources, which denied a discovery well certification to the holders of an oil and gas lease.

Under a lease granted in 1962 appellants drilled a well known as Grayling No. 1-A Well. On October 24, 1965, a showing of hydrocarbons...

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