EASON OIL v. HOWARD ENGINEERING

No. 72237.

801 P.2d 710 (1990)

EASON OIL COMPANY, a corporation, Atlantic Richfield Company, a corporation, Crawley Petroleum Corporation, a corporation, Devon Corporation, a corporation, States Marine Corporation, a corporation, Texas American Oil Corp., a corporation, Union Texas Petroleum Corp., a corporation, P & O Oil Corporation, a corporation, James S. Smith, executor of the Estate of Arnold D. Freese, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. HOWARD ENGINEERING, INC., a corporation, H. Boyd Howard, Linda Kay Howard, Nathan Bailey, a minor By and Through his legally appointed Guardian, Diane Bailey, Lynora Bailey, and Pamela L. Bailey, Defendants-Appellants.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

Rehearing Denied December 18, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James C. Lang, Brian S. Gaskill, Melinda J. Martin, Sneed, Lang, Adams, Hamilton & Barnett, Tulsa, and Lloyd Rowland, Rowland & Rowland, Bartlesville, for appellants.

Clyde A. Muchmore, Richard C. Ford, Judy Hamilton Morse, Crowe & Dunlevy, Oklahoma City, for appellees.


OPALA, Vice Chief Justice.

The dispositive first-impression issue this case presents for our review is whether the working interest ownership regime in a producing well completed under Corporation Commission spacing and compulsory pooling orders is altered when a subsequent order reduces the size of drilling and spacing units for the same common source of supply. We answer in the negative, holding that once production was...

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