BURLINGTON RESOURCES OIL & GAS v. DEPT. OF INTERIOR

No. Civ.A. 96-1936.

21 F.Supp.2d 1 (1998)

BURLINGTON RESOURCES OIL & GAS COMPANY, f/k/a Meridian Oil, Inc., Plaintiff, v. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, Defendant.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

July 16, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles L. Kaiser, Davis, Graham & Stubbs, L.L.P., Denver, CO, for Burlington Resources Oil & Gas Company, fka Meridian Oil Inc., plaintiff.

Donna S. Fitzgerald, U.S. Department of Justice, Environment & Natural Resources Division, Washington, DC, for United States Department of the Interior, federal defendant.

Jill Elise Grant, Nordhaus, Haltom, Taylor, Taradash & Frye, Washington, DC, for Jicarilla Apache Tribe, movant.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

JACKSON, District Judge.

This case is brought to determine the extent of certain obligations of plaintiff Burlington Resources, Inc. ("Burlington")1 as lessee under a number of oil and gas leases of various Indian tribal and allotted lands2 from which Burlington produces natural gas. Defendant United States Department of the Interior ("DOI"), principally through its agent...

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