Harmeyer v. Mason

Kennedy, Judge.

The issue presented for review is whether appellee, Donald L. Mason, Chief, Division of Oil and Gas, pursuant to R.C. 1509.12 and 1509.072(B), can order appellant, Richard Harmeyer, a lessee under an exclusive right to produce oil and gas from a one-hundred-sixty-acre tract of land in Lake Township, Wood County (“McClarren Lease”), to plug all eight oil and gas wells on the property when the lease contemplates only five wells on the leased property.

The McClarren Lease granted to appellant the exclusive right to produce oil and gas from the one hundred sixty acres. The lease…