Oil and Gas

Lease washouts occur when operators release or allow a current lease to expire in order to get a “clean slate.” These “clean slates” take the form of a new lease that... Read More

It has become increasingly common for modern oil and gas lease forms and addenda to include a “cost-free” royalty provision – but... Read More

In our last post, we discussed the GLO’s announcement of the formation of the Texas Defense Task Force (“Task Force”), which was organized to... Read More

On February 8, 2021, Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush announced the formation of the Texas Defense Task Force, designed “to identify federal overreach and to fend off threats... Read More

Recent litigation in Pennsylvania threatened to open the door for mineral trespass claims arising from fracking operations. Success in this endeavor would have created a significant and potentially influential minority rule governing the extraction of... Read More

In Part Two of our examination of Pennsylvania title wash issues, we consider several recent cases which particularly apply to the lands... Read More

In BP America Production Co. v. Red Deer Resources, LLC, the Texas Supreme Court considered the establishment of production in paying quantities in relation to the... Read More

In McGirt v. Oklahoma, (1) the United States Supreme Court ruled that a large portion of eastern Oklahoma is included in the Creek Nation Reservation. Therefore, this land is subject... Read More

In our final installment of “Understanding Adverse Possession” we examine how the existence of a co-tenancy can affect a claim of adverse... Read More

As we determined in Part Two of this series, once the surface and mineral estates in a tract of land have been severed, possession of the... Read More