WILLIAMS NATURAL GAS v. MESA OPER. LTD.

Nos. 87CA0101, 87CA0111.

778 P.2d 309 (1989)

WILLIAMS NATURAL GAS COMPANY, formerly Northwest Central Pipeline Corporation, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. MESA OPERATING LIMITED PARTNERSHIP, formerly Mesa Petroleum Co., Defendant-Appellant, and The Oil and Gas Conservation Commission of the State of Colorado, Defendant-Appellee. NORTHWEST CENTRAL PIPELINE CORPORATION, n/k/a Williams Natural Gas Company, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. The OIL AND GAS CONSERVATION COMMISSION OF the STATE of Colorado, Defendant-Appellant, and Mesa Petroleum Corporation, Defendant-Appellant.

Colorado Court of Appeals, Div. II.

Rehearing Denied July 6, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Shaw, Spangler & Roth, William Bruce Thompson, Denver, for plaintiff-appellee Williams Natural Gas Co. formerly Northwest Cent. Pipeline Corp.

Richard H. Bate, Denver, for defendant-appellant Mesa Operating Ltd. Partnership formerly Mesa Petroleum Co.

Duane Woodard, Atty. Gen., Charles B. Howe, Chief Deputy Atty. Gen., Richard H. Forman, Sol. Gen., Adonis A. Neblett and Timothy J. Monahan, Asst. Attys. Gen., Denver, for defendant-appellee The Oil and Gas Conservation Com'n of the State of Colo.


METZGER, Judge.

Mesa Operating Limited Partnership (Mesa) and the Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (commission) appeal the trial court judgment reversing the commission's order which denied Williams Natural Gas Company (Williams) the opportunity to participate in a gas well spacing hearing conducted pursuant to the Oil and Gas Conservation Act, §§ 34-60-101, et seq., C.R.S. (1984 Repl.Vol. 14) (the Act). We affirm.

In 1979, the commission entered...

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