Northern Natural Gas Co. v. L.D. Drilling, Inc.
United States District Court for the District of Kansas
759 F. Supp. 2d 1282 (D. Kan. 2010)
Relevant factsFree
Northern held storage rights in the Cunningham field, while the defendants drilled native-gas wells in an adjacent expansion area that Northern was separately trying to condemn; gas-composition, seismic, and pressure evidence, corroborated by a 2010 FERC finding, showed defendants' wells were producing substantial percentages of Northern's stored gas, uncontradicted by the defendants.
IssueFree
Whether the production of storage gas from a nearby well outside of the gas-storage field can constitute a nuisance if the gravity of the harm outweighs the utility of the outside producer's conduct.