Tenneco Oil Co. v. State Industrial Commission

BURKE, Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the District Court of Burleigh County affirming an order of the State Industrial Commission which denied the appellant, Tenneco Oil Co., an exception to the regular spacing pattern in Glenburn Oil Field in Renville County.

By its order No. 222, the Industrial Commission established 80 acre spacing in the Glenburn Oil Field. Since the field ran generally in a North and South direction, the regular spacing units ran in the same direction and were designated as the East Half or the West Half of the quarter sections. The order of the Commission,…