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Texas Supreme Court Holds that Add-Back Provision in Oil and Gas Lease Required Royalties to be Paid on Prices in Excess of the Producers’ Gross Proceeds

The Energy Law Blog

Specifically, the lessors discovered that the lessees sold oil under contracts that calculated the sales price by taking an index price at market centers downstream from the point of sale and subtracting eighteen dollars per barrel for the purchaser’s anticipated post-sales costs. This became a point of contention with the lessors.

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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.