Questar Exploration & Production Co. v. Woodard Villa, Inc.

|TThe lessors, Woodard Villa Inc. and its principal, Ernest Scott Woodard (collectively, “Woodard”), appeal a summary judgment declaring that the entirety of their mineral lease was maintained, at Haynesville Shale depth, by a well drilled by the working interest owner, Questar Exploration & Production (“QEP”), when the well was drilled off the lease premises and on land not unitized with the lease premises, but the well’s horizontal shaft entered the Haynesville Shale formation under the lease premises. For the reasons expressed, we affirm.

Factual and Procedural Background

On August 5, 2004,…