Pennzoil Exploration & Production Co. v. Lujan

CHRISTENSEN, Judge.

This is an appeal by plaintiff-appellant Pennzoil Exploration and Production Company (“Pennzoil”) from summary judgment of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana upholding an assessment of royalty by the Department of Interior (“DOI”) on an offshore mining lease as against Pennzoil’s contention that a Department of Energy (DOE) incentive program under the Emergency Petroleum ' Allocation Act operated to reduce the amount of that royalty.

Agreeing with the district court’s ruling “that the DOE incentive program [did not] implicitly overrule the…