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

The Energy Law

Ordinarily, royalties are free of production expenses for bringing the minerals to the surface but “usually subject to post-production costs, including taxes, treatment costs to render it marketable, and transportation costs.” Heritage Res., NationsBank , 939 S.W.2d 2d 118, 120-21 (Tex. Chesapeake Expl., Hyder , 483 S.W.3d 3d 870, 876 (Tex.

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Nigeria Oil Industry Overview

Drillers

While in the past it used to transport the most oil to the United States, now Nigerian oil goes mostly to Asia, Europe, and South America. During the first round of cuts, agreed in December 2016, Nigeria was exempted, along with Libya, because of the trouble it was having with the Niger Delta militants. million BPD as of November 2019.

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Louisiana’s Sabine River Authority Not Entitled To Sovereign Immunity

The Energy Law

Plaintiffs alleged that despite advance knowledge of the likelihood for significant downstream flooding, SRA-L decided to open spillway gates freeing water from the reservoir into the Sabine River to alleviate elevated reservoir volumes from a cataclysmic rain storm in March of 2016.

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