Railroad Commission v. Shell Oil Company

CULVER, Justice.

This suit was brought by Shell Oil Company, Amerada Petroleum Corporation, and Sun Oil Company, challenging the validity of an order of the Railroad Commission prorating the production in four separate oil reservoirs on the Quitman structure in Wood County on the basis of 50% per well and 50% on the acreage assigned to the well. The owners of two separate tracts, C. A. Green and R. J. McMurrey, intervened seeking to have the Commission’s order upheld. C. A. Green owns a. one-acre tract on which one well was drilled in December, 1960, and McMurrey has a well on a 2.03-acre…