Louisiana Land & Exp. v. Oil & Gas Cons. Com'n

This appeal provides a geographical and geologically related conflict to the oil and gas well production controversy considered in ANR Production Co. v. Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Com'n, 800 P.2d 492 (Wyo. 1990). We are presented with, following a June 1989 hearing, a Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (Commission) shut down order for a producing oil and gas well drilled by petitioner, Louisiana Land and Exploration Company (LL & E), to the Second Bench of the First Frontier Formation in the Powell Unit. The basic issue pursued on appeal is the Commission's procedure in denial of a motion for rehearing based on newly discovered evidence or, alternatively, this court's authority to remand for additional evidence to be produced to provide a supplemental record. We remand for additional hearing.