20 Cited authorities

  1. HECI Exploration Co. v. Neel

    982 S.W.2d 881 (Tex. 1998)   Cited 510 times   3 Legal Analyses
    Holding that courts cannot make, or remake, contracts for parties
  2. Champlin Rfg. Co. v. Commission

    286 U.S. 210 (1932)   Cited 413 times
    Holding that unless it is evident that the legislature would not have enacted the valid provision without the invalid provision, "the invalid part may be dropped if what is left is fully operative as a law"
  3. Samson Resources Co. v. Corporation Com'n

    1985 OK 31 (Okla. 1985)   Cited 39 times
    Holding the Commission did not have jurisdiction under the "correlative-rights" doctrine to resolve a dispute between private parties concerning the appointment of a new unit operator
  4. Western Land Services, Inc. v. Department of Environment Conservation

    26 A.D.3d 15 (N.Y. App. Div. 2005)   Cited 4 times

    97694. November 23, 2005. (1) CROSS APPEALS from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Albany County, (Bernard J. Malone, Jr., J.), entered November 4, 2004, and (2) appeal from an order of that court entered March 10, 2005. The judgment partially granted petitioners' application, in a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78, to annul a determination of respondent Department of Environmental Conservation regarding the regulation of the drilling of wells for natural gas. The order denied certain parties'

  5. Cowling v. Board of Oil, Gas & Mining

    830 P.2d 220 (Utah 1992)   Cited 12 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Noting that the common law rule of capture is abrogated only to the extent that it conflicts with the Utah Oil and Gas Act
  6. Phillips Petroleum Co. v. Stryker

    723 So. 2d 585 (Ala. 1998)   Cited 4 times

    No. 1951920. May 22, 1998. Rehearing Denied October 16, 1998. Appeal from Washington Circuit Court. No. CV-92-025, Harold L. Crow, J. Fournier J. Gale III; C.C. Torbert, Jr., Wesley Pipes and Norton W. Brooker, Jr., S.J. Laurie, and J. Bryan Whitworth and Clyde Lea, for appellant. Alva C. Caine and Bruce J. McKee; William Scruggs and Allen Dodd and C. Robert Montgomery, for appellees. Oakley Melton, Jr., for amici curiae Sonat Exploration Company, Taurus Exploration, Inc., Smackco Ltd., and Longleaf

  7. Kingwood Oil Company v. Hall-Jones Oil Corp.

    1964 OK 231 (Okla. 1964)   Cited 17 times
    In Kingwood Oil Co. v. Hall-Jones Oil Corp., 1964 OK 231, 396 P.2d 510, the Oklahoma Supreme Court adopted the following definition of "correlative rights:"
  8. Chevron Oil Co. v. Oil Gas Cons. Comm'n

    435 P.2d 781 (Mont. 1967)   Cited 2 times
    In Chevron the Board authorized the applicants' drilling of an offset exception well but denied Chevron's request to limit production of the offset well so as not to violate Chevron's correlative rights, as Chevron was lessee of the adjacent lands being offset by the exception well. Chevron's request or an order limiting production from the new offset exception well was denied by the Board on the grounds that it lacked authority to restrict production in the absence of a showing of waste.
  9. Syverson v. North Dakota State Industrial Com'n

    111 N.W.2d 128 (N.D. 1961)   Cited 4 times

    No. 7933. August 10, 1961. Rehearing Denied October 18, 1961. Appeal from the District Court of Burleigh County, W. C. Lynch, J. Dean Winkjer, Williston, for appellants. Cox, Pearce Engebretson, Bismarck, for respondent. STRUTZ, Judge (On reassignment). This is an appeal by Clifford A. Syverson and Alice Syverson, landowners having certain mineral and royalty interests in the Tioga-Madison reservoir, from a judgment of the district court of Burleigh County affirming an order of the North Dakota Industrial

  10. R.R. Comm. v. Humble Oil Refining

    193 S.W.2d 824 (Tex. Civ. App. 1946)   Cited 13 times
    In Railroad Commission v. Humble Oil Ref. Co., 193 S.W.2d 824 (Tex.Civ. app. 1946, n. r. e.), the Commission's proration order for the Hawkins Field was based on a formula of 50 percent for the well and 50 percent for surface acreage. It was upheld as against many of the contentions advanced by Appellants here.
  11. Section 23-0901 - Compulsory integration and unitization in oil and natural gas pools and fields

    N.Y. Envtl. Conserv. Law § 23-0901   Cited 5 times

    1. Compulsory integration and unitization in oil pools and fields and in natural gas pools and fields shall be subject to the provisions of this section with subdivision 3 to be specifically applicable to integration within individual spacing units, and subdivisions 4 through 12 to be specifically applicable to unit operation of an entire pool or part thereof. 2. The department shall not make any order requiring the integration of interests in any spacing unit or requiring the development or operation

  12. Section 45-9-2 - Definition of terms

    S.D. Codified Laws § 45-9-2   Cited 3 times

    Terms used in this chapter mean: (1) "Board," the Board of Minerals and Environment; (2) "Condensate," liquid hydrocarbons that were originally in the gaseous phase in the reservoir; (3) "Developed area," a spacing unit on which a well has been completed that is capable of producing oil or gas, or the acreage that is otherwise attributed to a well by the board for allowable purposes; (4) "Field," the general area underlaid by one or more pools; (5) "Gas," all natural gas and all other fluid hydrocarbons

  13. Section 23-0101 - Definitions

    N.Y. Envtl. Conserv. Law § 23-0101   Cited 2 times

    As used in this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. "Buffer zone" means all that area outside and surrounding the underground gas storage reservoir which the department approves as appropriate to protect the integrity of the reservoir, no part of which shall be more than thirty-five hundred linear feet from the boundary thereof. 2. "Cavity" means an open or partially open space left after a salt has been solution mined. 3. "Commissioner" means the commissioner of environmental conservation

  14. Section 15-72-102 - Definitions

    Ark. Code § 15-72-102   Cited 2 times

    As used in this act: (1) "Commission" means the Oil and Gas Commission; (2) (A) "Field" means the general area which is underlaid or appears to be underlaid by at least one (1) pool. "Field" includes the underground reservoir or reservoirs containing crude petroleum oil or natural gas, or both. (B) (i) The words "field" and "pool" mean the same thing when only one (1) underground reservoir is involved. (ii) However, "field", unlike "pool", may relate to two (2) or more pools; (3) "Gas" means all

  15. Section 23-0501 - Well permits

    N.Y. Envtl. Conserv. Law § 23-0501   Cited 1 times

    1. a. This section shall not apply to (1) wells drilled, deepened, plugged back or converted in oil fields or pools which were discovered, developed and operated prior to January first, nineteen hundred eighty-one, and (2) wells drilled, deepened, plugged back or converted in natural gas fields or pools which were discovered, developed and operated prior to January first, nineteen hundred ninety-five and which are not being extended. b. As used in titles five, seven and nine of this article, unless

  16. Section 23-2101 - Interstate Compact to Conserve Oil and Gas

    N.Y. Envtl. Conserv. Law § 23-2101

    1. The Interstate Compact to Conserve Oil and Gas, as first enacted by chapter 501 of the laws of 1941, and as re-enacted by chapter 263 of the laws of 1963, is hereby continued as follows: INTERSTATE COMPACT TO CONSERVE OIL AND GAS ARTICLE I This agreement may become effective within any compacting state at any time as prescribed by that state, and shall become effective within those states ratifying it whenever any three of the states of Texas, Oklahoma, California, Kansas and New Mexico have ratified