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Who Owns the Void? Oral Arguments at SCOTX Regarding Underground Storage Rights

Producer's Edge

The deed severed the mineral estate from the surface estate, with Myers-Woodward LLC (“Myers”) now owning the surface estate and a 1/8th non-participating royalty interest in minerals. ” The Fifth Circuit, applying Texas law in  Dunn-McCampbell Royalty Interest, Inc. 3d 39 , 47 (Tex.

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Louisiana Second Circuit Finds Holder of Mortgage Encumbering a Mineral Lease Solidarily Liable with Mineral Lessees for Damages Under the Louisiana Mineral Code

The Energy Law Blog

The mortgagee directed the mineral lessees to perform specific workovers and completions on other properties collateralized in the mortgage. As a condition of Wells Fargo releasing the mortgage, Tauren assigned a 10% interest in its shallow rights interest in the lease to Wells Fargo. 10] See id. at 22-33. [11] 11] See id.

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EPA and BSEE Team Up to Resolve Offshore Environmental Violations

The Energy Law Blog

Recently, when there was talk about Houston-based ATP Oil and Gas’ (ATP) legal problems, it was inevitably about its bankruptcy and its effort to bring the overriding royalty interests it had conveyed back into the bankrupt estate as debt instruments. The consent decree neither defines the term “responsible corporate official.”