Anadarko Production Co. v. Taylor

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

(As Revised by Order 3/16/82)

KELLY, District Judge.

Pending before the Court are a partial summary judgment motion filed by the plaintiff, Anadarko Production Company (Anadarko), and a crossing partial summary judgment motion filed by some of the defendants jointly. The remaining defendants support the plaintiff’s motion, and all of the parties seek the Court’s interpretation of various natural gas leases and agreements. At issue here is the applicability of a natural gas unit agreement controlling gas production from a well since 1944 to a second and much newer well…