Raymond L. Kysar Patsy Sue Kysar Kysar Family Trust v. Amoco Production Company, New Mexico Farm & Livestock Bureau, Amicus Curiae

HENRY, Circuit Judge.

This case arises from a dispute over access to a gas well. The Kysar family owns a ranch on the Animas River in San Juan County, New Mexico. Amoco is the lessee under various leases of mineral estates under the Kysars’ ranch as well as to lands owned by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), adjacent to and just north of the Kysars’ property. Several oil and gas wells drilled and operated by Amoco are on these properties. This litigation centers around one Amoco well, the Sullivan Gas Com E Well (the “Sullivan E well” or “the well”). See attached schematic (Att.l). The well…