Ghk Exploration Company, an Oklahoma Partnership v. Tenneco Oil Company, a Delaware Corporation

McKAY, Circuit Judge.

In GHK Exploration Co. v. Tenneco Oil Co., 847 F.2d 650 (10th Cir.1988), we ruled that the district court was without subject-matter jurisdiction to adjudicate a forced-pooling election issue raised in GHK Exploration Company’s (GHK’s) action for money judgment. Finding that the election issue was within the exclusive jurisdiction of the Oklahoma Corporation Commission (Commission), we reversed the district court judgment which resolved the election issue and directed the district court to dismiss the suit.

Subsequent to our direction to dismiss GHK’s suit, Tenneco claimed…