WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A federal judge has fully adopted the recommendations of a panel of petroleum engineering experts on what Omaha-based Northern Natural Gas should pay for condemning nearly 9,200 acres in southern Kansas.

U.S. District Judge Monti Belot ruled Wednesday that the report from the court-appointed panel is fundamentally sound. He called it a fair resolution supported by the evidence and consistent with constitutional requirements of just compensation.

The panel had mostly sided with the gas company over what it should pay gas producers and owners of land surrounding the company’s underground storage facility. It affects property owners in Pratt, Kingman and Reno counties.

The panel had recommended the company pay $7.3 million for storage rights and for gas underlying the land, far below the more than $100 million property owners wanted.