Seagull Energy E & P, Inc. v. Railroad Commission of Texas

TEXAS COURT OF APPEALS, THIRD DISTRICT, AT AUSTIN

NO. 03-02-00352-CV

Seagull Energy E & P, Inc., Appellant

v.

Railroad Commission of Texas, Appellee

FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF TRAVIS COUNTY, 201ST JUDICIAL DISTRICT

NO. GN101433, HONORABLE F. SCOTT McCOWN, JUDGE PRESIDING

O P I N I O N

This case is an appeal from a Railroad Commission ("the Commission") order denying an exception to the well spacing and density field rules in the Waskom (Cotton Valley) Field. See Tex. Gov't Code Ann. § 2001.174 (West 2000). Seagull Energy E & P, Inc. ("Seagull") chose to shut in its gas well, which produced from only…