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Louisiana Second Circuit Provides Guidance as to Good Faith Required When Conducting Operations Necessary to Interrupt Prescription of Mineral Servitude

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The well was a dry hole, however, and was therefore plugged and abandoned on April 21, 2006. At trial, the mineral servitude owner testified that in 2005, the Cotton Valley drilling activity was ramping up and other operators near the servitude successfully drilled gas wells. A well was spud on March 28, 2006. 1] 53,252 (La.

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Casing Controversy: Does the Comparative Fault Codal Article Cover Contract Claims?

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The appellate court also affirmed the trial court’s award of lost profits under the turnkey contract as consequential damages – rendering a decision that criticized defendants’ hypothesis that “some unknown and speculative intervening cause, i.e. a phantom hole in the formation ,” resulted in shutting in the well before completion.

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