Legal Opinion
Oenga v. United States
United States Court of Federal Claims
Decided December 21, 2010No. 06-491LPublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
FIRESTONE, Judge.
I. INTRODUCTION
This action concerns a lease (the “Oenga lease”) entered into between the plaintiffs,1 owners of a forty-acre Native Allotment on Aaska’s North Slope, and BP Exploration *482(Alaska) Inc. (“BPX”).2 The Oenga allotment is located on a peninsula known as Heald Point that juts out into the Beaufort Sea and is strategically located for directional drilling into state oil and gas leases owned by the defendant-intervenors. The Oenga lease was approved by the United States Department of the Interior (“DOI”) Bureau of Indian Affairs (“BIA”) under 25 U.S.C. § 415(a)…
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