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Louisiana Legislature to Consider Amendments to Forced Pooling Regime Requiring Operators to Pay Lessors of Nonparticipating Working Interest Owners Directly

The Energy Law Blog

While 30:10 was amended during the 2022 legislative session, the amendment preserved the limited obligation of remitting the royalty and overriding royalty burdens to the nonparticipating owner for the benefit of the royalty and overriding royalty owners.

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The Continued Struggle to Rebut the Van Dyke Presumption

Producer's Edge

Additionally, the court considered that the deed used the word “Grantors” in other parts of the document but switched to “landowner’s usual 1/8 royalty” in the granting clause. But generally, the royalty interests at issue affected over 300 individuals. By way of background, in 1955 J.D.

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Texas Court Subjects Override to Non-Consent Penalties

The Energy Law Blog

James Boldrick is an assignee of an overriding royalty interest in property subleased to BTA. BTA, the assignor and creator of Boldrick’s interest, elected non-consent status regarding the well at issue, proposed and drilled by Chevron. The District Court granted summary judgment in favor of BTA and Boldrick appealed.

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Texas Supreme Court Holds that References to “One-Eighth” in Old Oil and Gas Conveyances Presumptively Refer to the Entire Mineral Estate

The Energy Law Blog

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. That rationale led to the Court’s holding that the mere use of one-eighth in a double fraction is some evidence that the parties were operating under the estate misconception theory.

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Investing in Oil and Gas Royalties Explained

Aresco

Here’s how it generally works and some considerations to keep in mind: How Oil and Gas Royalties Work (Oil and Gas Royalties as Investments): Ownership Rights : When you own oil and gas royalties, you own a percentage interest in the revenue generated from the production of oil and gas on a specific property.

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

Producer's Edge

This case presents two critical questions: Who owns subsurface caverns created by salt mining operations, and How should in-kind royalties be calculated for salt production? ” The Fifth Circuit, applying Texas law in  Dunn-McCampbell Royalty Interest, Inc. Part I: The Battle Over Subsurface Storage Rights A.

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Texas Court Upholds Lease Cancellation for Failure to Pay Shut-In Payments To Proper Party

The Energy Law Blog

Ultimately the original lessee lost its lease because it made shut in payments to its lessee, rather than the current royalty owner, to whom those payments were owed. Van Hovenberg (“Van Hovenberg”) conveyed by royalty deed to O.B. Mobley (“Mobley”) “her entire 8/8 Royalty Interest” in a 105.8 In 1976, Karin H.

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