NORTHERN MICHIGAN EXPLORATION CO. v. PSC

Docket No. 78273.

153 Mich. App. 635 (1986)

396 N.W.2d 487

NORTHERN MICHIGAN EXPLORATION COMPANY v. PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided August 4, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dykema, Gossett, Spencer, Goodnow & Trigg (by Alan R. Dominick and Richard N. LaFlamme), and William H. Stephens III, for plaintiff Northern Michigan Exploration Co.

George G. Gronewald, for plaintiffs Reef Petroleum Corporation and Empire National Bank and Trust Company.

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Louis J. Caruso, Solicitor General, and Don L. Keskey and R. Philip Brown, Assistant Attorneys General, for the Public Service Commission.

Foster, Swift, Collins & Coey, P.C. (by David W. McKeague), for Shell Oil Company.

Lynch, Gallagher & Lynch (by Byron P. Gallagher), for defendants Miller Brothers Oil Corporation, et al.

Before: MacKENZIE, P.J., and HOOD and J.E. MIES, JJ.


J.E. MIES, J.

This is an appeal as of right from an April 26, 1984, opinion and order of the Ingham Circuit Court which affirmed a June 29, 1982, natural gas well proration order by the Michigan Public Service Commission.

The controversy involves drilling rights in the Cleon 22 natural gas field which is located in the Salina-Niagaran reef in Cleon Township, Manistee County. Two drilling units own the oil and gas leases pertaining to Cleon 22. Both are operated...

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