MARATHON OIL CO. v. UNITED STATES

Civ. No. A 83-208.

604 F.Supp. 1375 (1985)

MARATHON OIL COMPANY, Plaintiff, v. UNITED STATES of America; United States Department of the Interior, Donald Hodel, Secretary of the Interior; Esther Wunnicke, Commissioner of The Department of Natural Resources, State of Alaska; Cook Inlet Region, Inc., an Alaska Corporation, Defendants. COOK INLET REGION, INC., an Alaska Corporation, Counterclaimant, v. MARATHON OIL COMPANY, an Ohio Corp., Counterdefendant.

United States District Court, D. Alaska.

February 20, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert L. Richmond, Richmond & Associates, Anchorage, Alaska, Robert J. Kapelke, Gorsuch, Kirgis, Campbell, Walker & Grover, Denver, Colo., for plaintiff Marathon Oil.

Michael Spaan, U.S. Atty., Anchorage, Alaska, Peter Schaumberg, U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Michael W. Reed, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for federal defendants.

Steve C. Hillard, Munger, Tolles & Rickershauser, Anchorage, Alaska, William D. Temko, Munger, Tolles & Rickershauser, Los Angeles, Cal., for defendant Cook Inlet Region, Inc.

Mark P. Worcester, Asst. Atty. Gen., Dept. of Law, Anchorage, Alaska, for defendant State of Alaska.


JAMES M. FITZGERALD, Chief Judge.

Plaintiff Marathon Oil Company owns an undivided fifty percent working interest in certain oil and gas leases in the Kenai Field Unit in Alaska. Marathon and its working interest associate, Union Oil Company of California, discovered natural gas in the Kenai field in 1959, and production commenced in 1961.

During 1982, a representative year, the production of the Kenai field was delivered to a number of different purchasers...

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