Amerada Hess Corp. v. Furlong Oil & Minerals Co.

PEDERSON, Justice.

Amerada Hess Corporation appeals from an order dissolving a temporary restraining order. We reverse and remand.

The K-119 Well, which is the subject of this controversy, was drilled in 1956 by Am-erada Petroleum Corporation, predecessor *131to Amerada Hess Corporation, pursuant to an oil and gas lease from Clifford and Alice Syverson. The well was completed in the Rival Zone of the Madison Pool and produced oil and gas until September 1969 when it was shut-in.1 Amerada released the oil and gas lease as to the Syversons’ interest in November 1974.

In November 1982, the Syversons…