HUNT OIL CO. v. BATCHELOR

No. CA 92 2097.

633 So.2d 259 (1993)

HUNT OIL COMPANY, NWM/H-1982 Ltd., and Energy Development Corporation, v. Hon. J. Patrick BATCHELOR, Commissioner of Conservation and Assistant Secretary of the Department of Natural Resources of the State of Louisiana.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

Writ Granted March 18, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert T. Jorden, Charles B. Griffis, Lafayette, for plaintiff-appellee Hunt Oil Co., et al.

Michael R. Mangham, and Herman E. Garner, Jr., Lafayette, for defendant-first appellant Intervenor-Tex/Con Oil and Gas Co.

W. Miguel Swanwick, Lafayette, Darryl J. Hebert, Eunice, for second appellants Hon. J. Patrick Batchelor, State of Louisiana, et al.

Before FOIL, PITCHER and PARRO, JJ.


FOIL, Judge.

This is an appeal from a trial court judgment reversing two administrative orders issued by the Commissioner of Conservation of the Department of Natural Resources of the State of Louisiana (Commissioner), which concerned the method of partition and accounting for the gas production from units that were revised retroactively by two prior orders. The issue before us is whether the trial court erred in reversing the Commissioner's orders which mandated...

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