article thumbnail

Texas Supreme Court Upholds Railroad Commission’s Regulation of Commingled Oil and/or Gas Drilling and Production

The Energy Law

03-0364, 2007 WL 1299163 (Tex. May 4, 2007), the Texas Supreme Court affirmed a decision by the Austin Court of Appeals upholding the Railroad Commission of Texas’ authority to regulate both drilling and production of commingled oil and/or gas deposits and to treat commingled deposits as one reservoir. Railroad Comm’n, No.

Oil 40
article thumbnail

Texas Supreme Court Holds that Add-Back Provision in Oil and Gas Lease Required Royalties to be Paid on Prices in Excess of the Producers’ Gross Proceeds

The Energy Law

The lessees owned working interests in certain oil and gas leases that were executed in 2007. The add-back provision in Sheppard was tethered to dispositions, contracts, and sales of oil or gas to a purchaser by the lessees. Sheppard , — S.W.3d 20-0904, 2023 WL 2438927 (Tex.

Royalty 98
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Oil and Gas Operators are Not Entitled to Reimbursement of Production Expenses from Unleased Landowners – Caldwell Lands, Inc. v. Cedyco Corp., 2007-1515 (La. App. 3rd Cir. 4/2/08), 980 So. 2d 827

The Energy Law

by April Rolen-Ogden This case involved a suit by an unleased landowner against an oil and gas unit operator seeking unpaid production proceeds. The landowner owned a portion of a small tract of property, which was included in an oil and gas production unit that was apparently being operated by the defendant, Cedyco.

article thumbnail

EPA Issues Final Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding

The Energy Law

497 (2007), in which the Supreme Court held that greenhouse gases were “pollutants” under the Clean Air Act and ordered EPA to determine whether greenhouse gases “may reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health or welfare” under Section 202 of the Act. See 74 Fed. 66496 (Dec. EPA, 549 U.S.

Gas 40
article thumbnail

MMS Proposed Notice of Central Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale 205

The Energy Law

Hunter MMS has issued a proposed notice scheduling Central Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale 205 for October 3, 2007. This will be the first sale in the newly configured Central Gulf of Mexico Planning Area, and is the first Central GOM sale to be held in MMS’ 2007 – 2012 Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program.

article thumbnail

Texas Appeals Court Interprets Mineral Conveyances

The Energy Law

04-05-00904-CV, 2007 WL 460648 (Tex. 14, 2007). By Anna Knull: In Hamilton v. Morris Resources, Ltd., Morris Resources, Ltd., Hamilton v. Morris Res., San Antonio Feb.

article thumbnail

Federal Court Upholds Mandatory Deep Water Royalty Relief

The Energy Law

The court ruled that Interior’s price threshold clauses unlawfully deprived Kerr-McGee of the statutory right to produce minimum volumes of oil and gas royalty-free, as mandated by Congress in the Outer Continental Shelf Deep Water Royalty Relief Act of 1995. CLICK here to view the decision

Royalty 40