Legal Opinion
Walls v. Arkansas Oil & Gas Commission
Court of Appeals of Arkansas
Decided February 1, 2012No. CA 11-620PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DOUG MARTIN, Judge.
| ]Zelda Walls and Richard Gawenis seek reversal of a circuit court order upholding a ruling by the Arkansas Oil & Gas Commission (the Commission). We affirm in part and dismiss in part.
The primary issue on appeal concerns the amount of compensation awarded to appellants for the forced integration, or pooling, of their mineral interests in a natural-gas drilling unit. Under Arkansas law, the Commission has the authority to designate a single governmental section as a drilling unit and to oversee the number and placement of wells within the unit. Ark.Code Ann. §…
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