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Wasted Gas, Wasted Royalties – How Common-Sense Climate Policy Can Put Money Back in People’s Pockets

Energy Central

By EDF Blogs By Aaron Wolfe, Ari Pottens , and  Scott Seymour EDF economic analysis found that in 2022 oil and gas operators across Alberta wasted $671 million in natural gas, costing the provincial government over $120 million in lost royalties and uncollected corporate taxes.

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Fixed vs. Floating Royalty Considered by Texas Supreme Court

Texas Oil & Gas Attorney

Whether a royalty granted or reserved in a deed is a “fixed” or “floating” royalty has resulted in a lot of litigation in Texas. 3d , 2022 WL 17351596 (Tex.Civ.App.Corpus Christi 2022, pet. The question is: does the stipulation of interest change the original fixed royalty into a floating royalty?

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Interest Paid on Past Due Royalties

Texas Oil & Gas Attorney

The Texas Supreme Court is going to hear a case in which the issue is whether the interest to be paid on past due royalties is simple or compound interest. App.Beaumont 2022, pet. The specific language in the lease is: Continue reading The post Interest Paid on Past Due Royalties appeared first on Texas Oil and Gas Attorney Blog.

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Louisiana Legislature to Consider Amendments to Forced Pooling Regime Requiring Operators to Pay Lessors of Nonparticipating Working Interest Owners Directly

The Energy Law Blog

While 30:10 was amended during the 2022 legislative session, the amendment preserved the limited obligation of remitting the royalty and overriding royalty burdens to the nonparticipating owner for the benefit of the royalty and overriding royalty owners.

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Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms District Court Decision on Royalty Calculations

Vorys Energy

On February 1, 2022, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit affirmed the lower court’s decision in Zehentbauer Family Land, LP, et al. The Court held that the lessees’ payment of royalties based on amounts they received from sales to their affiliates at the well was proper and followed the language of the lease.

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7th District Court of Appeals Issues First Decision Addressing the Enforceability of “Anti-Washout” Provision in Assignments of Overriding Royalty Interests

Vorys Energy

Ohio’s Seventh District Court of Appeals recently held that an “anti-washout” provision found in multiple assignments of overriding royalty interests covering leases that subsequently expired was not binding on the original lessee’s assignees, which had taken new leases to those same lands, as there was no privity of contract.

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Who Owns the Rights to Salt Caverns?

Texas Oil & Gas Attorney

In 2022, in a case decided by the Corpus Christi Court of Appeals , the issue was who owns the right to use underground salt caverns: the mineral owner or the surface owner? 3d , 2022 WL 2163857 (Tex.Civ.App.Corpus ChristiEdinburgh 2022), pet. 30, 2024), the Court also considered how a salt royalty should be calculated.

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