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STATE DNR v. ARCTIC SLOPE REG. CORP.

Nos. S-3400, S-3416 and S-3437.

834 P.2d 134 (1991)

STATE of Alaska, DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES; and Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, Appellants, v. ARCTIC SLOPE REGIONAL CORPORATION, an Alaska corporation, Appellee/Cross-Appellant, and Standard Alaska Production Company, a Delaware corporation; and Chevron U.S.A. Inc., a Pennsylvania corporation, Appellees/Cross-Appellants.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

Motion to Stay Judgment Denied April 29, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert E. Mintz, Asst. Atty. Gen., Anchorage, and Douglas B. Baily, Atty. Gen., Juneau, for appellants State of Alaska, Dept. of Natural Resources and Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Com'n.

Stephen M. Ellis and Marc D. Bond, Delaney, Wiles, Hayes, Reitman & Brubaker, Inc., Anchorage, for cross-appellants Chevron U.S.A. Inc. and Standard Alaska Production Co.

David C. Crosby, Council & Crosby, Juneau, and Steven T. Seward and James Wickwire, Wickwire, Greene & Seward, Seattle, Wash., for appellee Arctic Slope Regional Corp.

Before MATTHEWS, C.J., and RABINOWITZ, BURKE and COMPTON, JJ.

OPINION

COMPTON, Justice.

In this appeal we are asked to decide whether the statutory requirement that oil drillers submit well data to the Department of Natural Resources constitutes an unconstitutional taking of property. We conclude that it does not; therefore, we reverse.

I. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

A. State Regulation of Oil and Gas Activities

The drilling for and production of oil and gas in Alaska was first regulated...

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