Austin represents Texas operators and non-operators in complex issues and disputes. He seeks practical solutions to avoid litigation, but adopts aggressive courtroom strategies when necessary.
High risk, high reward. We in the oil and gas industry have been toughened; have been forced to learn to traverse the risk, and to reap the rewards. Heck, oil and gas exploration and production is practically as synonymous with the "American Dream" as we can get. The...
Farmout Agreements are one of the most widely used agreements in the oil and gas industry.((Special thanks to Professor Lowe for his excellent article on this subject, Analyzing Oil and Gas Farmout Agreements, Sw. L.J. 759 (1987).)) However, there is no largely adopted model form. As such, they...
"Common" Oil and Gas Law As time passes, the "academic minds" have recognized more and more that Oil and Gas Law is not simply a mixture of advanced property law and advanced contract law. To the contrary, the advent and progression of the energy era as...
Who owns the void left behind after millions of tons of salt are mined - and can it be used for someone else’s storage business? The Texas Supreme Court just drew the line.
