( April 5, 2024, 1:24 PM EDT) -- DENVER — An oil company has appealed to the 10th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals asking it to reverse a lower court’s decision that the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) acted within its scope of authority when it denied oil companies’ attempts to drill a traverse well under a split estate, contending that the district court erred when it failed to hold that the BLM’s decision to require the company and its affiliate to file a federal application for permit to drill (APD) for a traversing well exceeded its statutory authority....