Bice v. Petro-Hunt, L.L.C.

CROTHERS, Justice.

[¶ 1] Plaintiffs, proceeding as a class, appeal from the district court’s order granting Petro-Hunt, L.L.C., summary judgment. We affirm, concluding the district court did not err in granting Petro-Hunt summary judgment.

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[¶ 2] The Little Knife Field was discovered in 1976 by Gulf Oil Corporation (“Gulf’). In the late 1970s, Gulf built the Little Knife Gas Plant to process the sour casinghead gas produced from the Little Knife wells. The Little Knife Gas Plant removes hydrogen sulfide and liquid hydrocarbons from the casinghead gas; the residue gas and other plant products…