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Production in Paying Quantities: Second Circuit Holds Lower Courts Must Consider All Relevant Factors, Not Just Profit

The Energy Law

The Middleton plaintiffs filed suit in 2013 claiming that three mineral leases maintained by a unit well had terminated because the well failed to produce in paying quantities for a 41-month period from August 1991 to December 1994. Ultimately, the Second Circuit reversed the district court’s judgment on other grounds.