The Energy Law Blog
MAY 5, 2023
2023), the Texas Supreme Court held that the lessee could not invoke a force majeure clause to save its oil and gas leases when it inadvertently scheduled its operations to begin after the requisite deadline. The lessee, MRC Permian Company, received four identical oil and gas leases from certain lessors in 2014.
The Energy Law Blog
JUNE 21, 2022
The carbon credit market continues to evolve as oil and gas companies face increasingly stringent regulations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The EPA estimates that there are over 3 million known abandoned and orphaned oil and gas wells (AOOG wells) in the United States. million vehicles per year.
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The Energy Law Blog
AUGUST 10, 2017
Many oil and gas properties have (a) unconventional shale formations that may be exploited with horizontal wells and hydraulic fracturing and (b) conventional formations that may be exploited with traditional vertical wells. The Five Lessons 1. Take advantage of the geology.
The Energy Law Blog
MARCH 30, 2017
In Petro-Chem Operating Co., Flat River Farms, L.L.C. , the Louisiana Second Circuit addressed issues affecting the creation and preservation of mineral servitudes and payment of court costs in a concursus action. [1] Flat River Farms, L.L.C. , 12] In its analysis, the Court first looked to the pertinent language of La.
The Energy Law Blog
APRIL 30, 2020
A well was spud on March 28, 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. Cannisnia Plantation, LLC v.
The Energy Law Blog
JULY 20, 2018
Gulf Oil Corp. , [1] for determining whether a contract to perform services related to oil & gas exploration on navigable waters is maritime, the Fifth Circuit took up In re Larry Doiron, Incorporated [2] earlier this year in an effort to streamline the test and bring clarity to an area of the law mired in uncertainty.
The Energy Law Blog
MARCH 2, 2009
Smith”) was the operator of the Bloomberg oil and gas lease, whose operations were governed by two JOAs. By Kevin Connolly On an issue of apparent national first impression, the Houston Court of Appeals, in XTO Energy Inc. Smith Production Inc., 14-07-0069-CV, 2009 WL 442003 at *1 (Tex. Houston [14th] 2009, no pet.
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