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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

2023), in which it held that lessees owed royalties in excess of their gross proceeds, specifically “adding back” costs incurred by third-party buyers that were enumerated in the sales contract and subtracted from the sales price. The leases contained the following royalty provisions: 3. Sheppard , — S.W.3d NationsBank”, 939 S.W.2d

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Trudging the Rocky Landscape of Royalty Dispute Litigation with the Texas Supreme Court Yet Again in BlueStone

The Energy Law Blog

With the prevalence of cases involving royalty disputes in Texas, the state’s Supreme Court has never hesitated to address these issues. But the Court’s sporadic holdings regarding royalty clauses, each so specific to the particular language of the lease, have left lessees on unsteady footing. Heritage Resources , 939 S.W.2d

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Who Owns the Rights to Salt Caverns?

Texas Oil & Gas Attorney

Underground Services Markham, LLC and United Brine Pipeline Co., 30, 2024), the Court also considered how a salt royalty should be calculated. Myers owns the surface and a 1/8 royalty in the minerals. In this case, Myers-Woodward, LLC v. 3d , 2022 WL 2163857 (Tex.Civ.App.Corpus ChristiEdinburgh 2022), pet. granted (Aug.

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U.S. House of Representatives Passes Energy Bill

The Energy Law Blog

Title I addresses the existing moratoria, future OCS access, exploration, production and royalty questions. per MMBtu, unless lease royalties were renegotiated with the Secretary , imposes Conservation of Resources Fee on nonproducing lease acreage of $3.75 House of Representatives passed Speaker Pelosi’s Energy Bill, H.R.

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Who Can Enforce Surface Provisions in an OGL?

Producer's Edge

LLC sought to enforce a provision in a 1948 mineral lease requiring Unitex WI, LLC and Unitex Oil and Gas, LLC (Unitex) to bury pipelines on the ranch land surface CT Land acquired in 2013. Minerals had been developed from the property over the years, and pipelines existed on the land when CT Land purchased it.

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Supreme Court Denies Relief to Oil Companies

The Energy Law Blog

. — (2006), the Supreme Court resolved a legal issue that has been at the center of federal royalty litigation for twenty years: viz. founded upon any contract,” applies to administrative royalty payment orders issued by the Minerals Management Service (MMS). whether 28 U.S.C. On appeal, the D.C. Amoco Production Co. Watson , 410 F.3d

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Nigeria Oil Industry Overview

Drillers

Pipeline vandalism, militant attacks on infrastructure, protests and lawsuits are among the issues that have plagued Nigerias oil industry for years. Recently, the Nigerian government demanded more than $60 billion in back royalties under a production sharing agreement with the supermajors operating in the country.

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