BENCH JUDGMENT: $400,000 stipulated damages awarded to gas producer for breach of common law duty of common carrier inherent in grant of BLM easement by failing to accept gas for transport, operate gathering system on non-discriminatory basis, increase line pressures in adjacent field, and by establishing conditions that reduced production and flow of gas, injunctive relief denied, in case in which facts as to common law duty are sui generis… Strong. [Read more…]