Vorys Energy

OCTOBER 31, 2022

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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The Energy Law Blog

MARCH 7, 2023

In the 1920s—the time the deed at issue was executed—lessors commonly reserved a one-eighth royalty interest when they executed oil and gas leases. In support of that notion, the Court cited the 1957 Texas Supreme Court case Garrett v. Dils Co. , 2d 904 (Tex. Element Petroleum Props., 11-21-00103-CV (Tex.

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The Energy Law Blog

APRIL 4, 2023

The current proposed bill, however, would require operators to remit all royalty payments directly to the lessors on behalf of nonparticipating working interest owners prior to well payout, i.e., during the recoupment of costs, and the statutorily authorized risk charge.

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The Energy Law Blog

JANUARY 25, 2008

CXY Energy, Inc. , 12/19/07), the court addressed the payment of royalties and penalties under Mineral Code article 212.23(c) In exchange, the defendant agreed to transfer an overriding royalty interest in the subject prospect to the plaintiff in the event defendant acquired an interest in the prospect. 31:212.21).

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The Energy Law Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

Dunn-McCampbell Royalty Interest Inc. The case involved land in the Padre Island National Park, created in 1963. Nat’l Park Serv. , 09-40187 (5th Cir.

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The Energy Law Blog

MARCH 15, 2023

The Texas Supreme Court recently released its opinion in Devon Energy Production Company, L.P. 2023), in which it held that lessees owed royalties in excess of their gross proceeds, specifically “adding back” costs incurred by third-party buyers that were enumerated in the sales contract and subtracted from the sales price.

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The Energy Law Blog

MAY 10, 2010

—Tyler 5/5/2010), the Tyler Court of Appeals upheld a trial court’s findings of fact and conclusions of law with respect to the termination of an oil and gas lease for failure to pay shut-in royalty payments to the proper party. The case involved a dispute between the original lessee and a top lessee. In 1976, Karin H.

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