In Darville v. Germany, No. 5:20-cv-00180 (S.D. Miss. Mar. 1, 2021), Robert H. Darville and wife Joe Ann Crawford Darville as well as other plaintiffs filed suit alleging that they are the owners of undivided royalty and mineral interests in oil and gas production in the McComb Field Unit, a compulsory unitized field in Pike County, Mississippi. The parties do not dispute that one of the unit's unitized intervals, the "C" sand, was not included in the tract participation factors in a Mississippi State Oil and Gas Board (Board) order issued in 1998 but was purposefully excluded by agreement of the parties. In Mississippi, compulsory unitization determines the interests of all parties in accounting for 100 of production through unit tract participation factors.
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