The Energy Law

MAY 5, 2023

The lessee, MRC Permian Company, received four identical oil and gas leases from certain lessors in 2014. In compliance with that obligation, MRC created a drilling schedule listing June 2, 2017 as the spud date of a new well based on its belief that the deadline to spud that well was June 19, 2017. MRC Permian Company , — S.W.3d

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The Energy Law

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

The Fourth Court of Appeals recently held that surface owners control the matrix of the underlying earth; thus, a surface owner can give permission to drill through the subsurface to an adjacent lease. Anadarko E&P Onshore, No. 04-14-00903-CV , 2014 Tex. In Lightning Oil Co. Lexis 8673 (Aug. Lexis 8673 (Aug.

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Drilling rig E&P Oil E&A 40

The Energy Law

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

3d 550, a three-judge panel of the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal held on August 14, 2020, that seaman status under the Jones Act may apply to an injured welder on a jack-up oil rig adjacent to an inland pier. Its employees work at its shop and yard and occasionally on jacked-up drilling rigs, often docked to inland piers.

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Casing Drilling rig Offshore E&A 40

The Energy Law

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

3d 550, a three-judge panel of the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal held on August 14, 2020, that seaman status under the Jones Act may apply to an injured welder on a jack-up oil rig adjacent to an inland pier. Its employees work at its shop and yard and occasionally on jacked-up drilling rigs, often docked to inland piers.

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