Hunt Oil Co. v. Batchelor

FOIL, Judge.

This is an appeal from a trial court judgment reversing two administrative orders issued by the Commissioner of Conservation of the Department of Natural Resources of the State of Louisiana (Commissioner), which concerned the method of partition and accounting for the gas production from units that were revised retroactively by two prior orders. The issue before us is whether the trial court erred in reversing the Commissioner’s orders which mandated a partition in kind, and instead ordering a cash accounting to correct the production imbalance. We affirm the judgment of the trial…