Majority of the Working Interest Owners in the Buck Draw Field Area v. Wyoming Oil & Gas Conservation Commission

CARDINE, Justice.

After an administrative proceeding, the Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (commission) ordered that the interest owners shut-in their oil wells in the Buck Draw North Oil and Gas Field until they agreed upon a unitization plan for secondary recovery operations. A majority of the working interest owners filed a petition for review in the district court, and the case was certified directly to this court. Several of the working interest owners, Kerr-McGee Corporation (Kerr-McGee), Marathon Oil Company (Marathon), and Louisiana Land and Exploration Company (LL & E),…