Hall Jones Oil Corporation v. Claro

1 Parties will be referred to as they appeared in the trial court. Plaintiffs filed suit in the district court of Lincoln County on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated. Plaintiff is the owner of approximately 26 acres of undivided minerals in the NW/4 of Section 18-T13N-R2E, Lincoln County and the other parties in this class action are the remainder of the mineral owners in the 158.64 acres contained in the NW/4 of Section 18. Defendants are the owners of oil and gas leases on NW/4 of Section 18, and the operator of a gas well known as Kimmel No. 1, that is located on the SW/4 of Section 7, which together with the NW/4 of Section 18 forms a 320 acre gas spacing unit in the lower Skinner formation. Defendants are also the owners of leases and operators of an offset well known as Petchinsky No. 1, located on the E/2 of Section 13-T13N-R1E, which forms an adjacent gas spacing unit.