Tellus Operating Group, LLC v. Maxwell Energy, Inc.

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI

CHANDLER, Justice,

for the Court:

¶ 1. In this case, we review a challenge to a Mississippi Oil and Gas Board pooling order force-integrating various owners’ interests in a proposed drilling unit. See Miss.Code Ann. § 53-3-7 (Rev. 2003). We hold that the Board’s order was supported by substantial evidence. We also find that one owner’s attempt to voluntarily integrate his interest within twenty days of the Board’s pooling order did not satisfy Section 53—3—7(2)(g)(iii).

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¶ 2. In 2006, Tellus Operating Group, LLC, sought to integrate the interests of…