Summary

Hunter Company v. McHugh — Opinion of the Court

The statute defines a drilling unit as 'the maximum area which may be efficiently and economically drained by one well'.
Section 9 (a) provides that where a drilling unit embraces separately owned tracts the owners may agree to pool their interests, but provides that in default of such agreement 'the Commissioner shall, if found by him to be necessary for the prevention of waste or to avoid the drilling of unnecessary wells, require such owners to do so and to develop their lands as a drilling unit'
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Hunter Company v. McHugh — Opinion of the Court

It held that the order was a valid exercise of state power to prevent future waste of a natural resource of the state and that under the provisions of § 9 (a) of the Act and of the order appellant was entitled to retain its proportionate share of the gas, and to reimburse itself from the proceeds of all the gas for the proportionate share of the cost of drilling and operation chargeable to the other landowners in the drilling unit.
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