Chesapeake Exploration, L.L.C. v. Oil & Gas Commission

{¶ 1} This is an action for a writ of prohibition to prevent respondents, the Ohio Oil and Gas Commission and three of its five members, from exercising jurisdiction in an appeal from the issuance by the chief of the Ohio Division of Oil and Gas Resources Management of a permit to relator, Chesapeake Exploration, L.L.C. (“Chesapeake”), to drill an oil and gas well, and to vacate the commission’s actions in the appeal. Because the commission patently and unambiguously lacks jurisdiction over the appeal from the chiefs issuance of the permit, we grant the writ.

Facts

{¶ 2} In 2004, Summitcrest,…