UNION TEXAS PETROLEUM, A DIVISION OF ALLIED CHEMICAL CORPORATION; Champlin Petroleum Company; Atlantic Richfield Company; Amerada Hess Corporation; Eason Oil Company; Harper Oil Company; Singer-Fleischaker Oil Operating Company, Inc.; Oklahoma Natural Gas Company; Henry H. Gungoll Associates; L.O. Ward; Carl E. Gungoll; Woods Petroleum Corporation; Odessa Natural Corporation; Mack Oil Company; Okmar Oil Corporation and Ladd Petroleum Corporation, Appellants,
v.
The CORPORATION COMMISSION OF the STATE OF OKLAHOMA, Harvey W. Dierksen, et al., Appellees.
Supreme Court of Oklahoma.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
July 21, 1981.
Rehearing Denied March 8, 1982.
As Corrected March 9, 1982.
Dissenting Opinion March 9, 1982.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
C. Harold Thweatt of Crowe, Dunlevy, Thweatt, Swinford, Johnson & Burdick, Oklahoma City, for Union Texas Petroleum, A Div. of Allied Chemical Corp., and Champlin Petroleum Co.
Duncan W. Holt, Jr., Dallas, Tex., for Atlantic Richfield Co.
Wyn Dee Baker, Tulsa, for Amerada Hess Corp.
Robert J. Emery of Lytle, Soule & Emery, Oklahoma City, for Eason Oil Co.
Russell F. Thompson of Monnet, Hayes, Bullis, Thompson & Edwards, Oklahoma City, for Harper Oil Co. and Singer-Fleischaker Oil Operating Co., Inc.
John A. Gaberino, Jr. of Huffman, Arrington, Scheurich & Kihle, Tulsa, for Oklahoma Natural Gas Co.
Gordon F. Brown, Brown & Lockhart, Oklahoma City, for Henry H. Gungoll Associates, Wood Petroleum Corp., Odessa Natural Corp., Mack Oil Co., L.O. Ward, Okmar Oil Corp., Ladd Petroleum Corp. and Carl E. Gungoll.
H.B. Watson, Jr., Richard K. Books, Oklahoma City, for Tenneco Oil Co. and Union Oil Co. of Cal.
Harvey Cody, Conservation Atty., Oklahoma Corp. Com'n, Jan Eric Cartwright, Atty. Gen., Oklahoma City, for Corp. Com'n of the State of Okl.
Walker, Walker & Corbyn by Barth B. Walker, Oklahoma City, for Harvey W. Dierksen, et al.
Supreme Court of Oklahoma.
HARGRAVE, Justice.
This is an appeal from Order No. 148243 of the Corporation Commission of the State of Oklahoma dated January 3, 1979. That order vacated eighty-eight 640-acre drilling and spacing units, and established 160-acre drilling and spacing units. One hundred eleven applicants joined in the application which produced this order, and in that application they alleged that the prior orders of the Corporation Commission...
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