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Nigeria Oil Industry Overview

Drillers

Recently, the Nigerian government demanded more than $60 billion in back royalties under a production sharing agreement with the supermajors operating in the country. The government has been fighting the illicit refineries for years. The government had little choice but to try and negotiate peace with the militants.

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Trudging the Rocky Landscape of Royalty Dispute Litigation with the Texas Supreme Court Yet Again in BlueStone

The Energy Law

Heritage Resources holds only that the effect of a lease is governed by a fair reading of its text.” El Paso 2014, pet. Further, Justice Hecht writes, “ Heritage Resources does not suggest, much less hold, that a royalty cannot be made free of postproduction costs. In 2019, the Court heard Burlington Res. Oil & Gas Co.

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