NORTHWEST CENT. PIPELINE CORP. v. KANSAS CORP. COMM'N

Nos. 59,735, 59,738, 60,143, 60,187 (Consolidated)

241 Kan. 165 (1987)

734 P.2d 241

NORTHWEST CENTRAL PIPELINE CORPORATION, n/k/a WILLIAMS NATURAL GAS COMPANY, Petitioner-Appellant, v. THE STATE CORPORATION COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF KANSAS, MICHAEL LENNEN, Chairman, MARGALEE WRIGHT, Commissioner, KEITH R. HENLEY, Commissioner, and their respective successors in office, as members of the State Corporation Commission, et al., Respondents-Appellees.

Supreme Court of Kansas.

Opinion filed March 27, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark H. Adams, II, of Adams & McCarthy, of Wichita, argued the cause, and J.D. Steelman, Jr., associate general counsel, of Northwest Central Pipeline Corporation, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, was with him on the briefs for petitioner.

Kirby A. Vernon, assistant general counsel, argued the cause, and Brian J. Moline, general counsel, Kansas Corporation Commission, was with him on the brief for respondents.

John C. Lovett, of Cities Service Oil and Gas Corporation, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Stanford J. Smith and Stanford J. Smith, Jr., of Robbins, Tinker, Smith & Metzger, of Wichita, were on the briefs for appellee Cities Service Oil and Gas Corporation.

Steven D. Gough and Alan R. Pfaff, of Kahrs, Nelson, Fanning, Hite & Kellogg, of Wichita, were on the briefs for appellee Amoco Production Company.

N.E. Maryan, Jr., of Mobil Oil Corporation, of Denver, Colorado, and Jerome E. Jones, and Patricia A. Gorham, of Hershberger, Patterson, Jones & Roth, of Wichita, were on the briefs for intervenor Mobil Oil Corporation.

Neil O. Bowman, of Mesa Operating Limited Partnership, of Amarillo, Texas, J.A. Hannah, of Tenneco Oil Company, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and Richard C. Byrd, of Anderson, Byrd & Richeson, of Ottawa, were on the brief for intervenors Mesa Operating Limited Partnership and Tenneco Oil Company.


The opinion of the court was delivered by

McFARLAND, J.:

This consolidated case involves four appeals filed by Northwest Central Pipeline Corporation (Northwest Central) in cases where judicial review was being sought of certain actions by the Kansas Corporation Commission (KCC) relative to infill drilling in the Kansas Hugoton Field. Each of the four appeals was dismissed on procedural grounds by the respective district court and Northwest Central appeals...

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