Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Co. v. Corp. Comn

1 The above styled and numbered appeals are so related that they have been considered and will herein be dealt with together, as if consolidated. They all involve an area of sixteen thousand acres of land in Townships 5 and 6 North, Ranges 21 and 22 East, near the Kansas-Oklahoma line in Beaver County, found by this States Corporation Commission, in its Cause CD 4695, to overlay a common source of supply of natural gas called the "Upper Morrow Sand." By its order No. 27771, entered in said cause, said body (hereinafter referred to merely as "The Commission") established spacing units of 640 acres each, bounded as shown by the heavy lines on the plat incorporated in this opinion. Under the order only one well could be drilled and produced on each of the well-spaced units; and the wells that were then producing gas from said sand on certain of the units (which well locations are approximately indicated by small double circles "- " on the plat) were designated as the wells for the respective units in which they were located. From said order the two above-styled appeals docketed under Nos. 36312 and 36501, were perfected by Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Company, hereinafter referred to merely as "Pan-East", and Estella M. Humiston, respectively.