Richfield Oil Corp. v. Crawford

This appeal involves the interpretation and application to certain parcels of land of section 3600 of the Public Resources Code regulating the spacing of oil and gas wells. The accompanying diagram shows the relationship of the parcels and the wells thereon.

All oil wells are producing from the Colgrove formation in the Cuyama oil field. The dotted line across the diagram represents the Hadley-Stone fault, running in a northwest-southeast direction. This fault acts as a barrier to oil and gas and thus limits production to that portion of the Col-grove formation north and east of the fault.

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