Claims for full royalty from a hypothetical offset well no longer hold under Texas law. After Coastal Oil, lessors must prove—through complex expert evidence—the specific royalty actually lost, not speculative windfalls, giving lessees significant leverage in drainage disputes.
The EPA’s November 2025 approval granting Texas primary enforcement authority over Class VI injection wells fundamentally changes who controls permitting of carbon capture and sequestration projects across the nation’s largest oil and gas state. For the 64 pending permit applications now transferring from federal to state oversight, this...
When your neighbor's wastewater tanks your oil wells, when exactly can you sue? A Texas court wrestles with a timing question reshaping industry battles.
El Paso Court of Appeals tells lessee that he cannot establish constructive production sufficient to hold a lease without bearing the risk and liabilities of exploration and production.
Armour Pipe Line v. Sandel Energy, 2022 Tex.App.LEXIS 7265 (Houston [14th Dist.] 2022, no pet. In this case, the 14th District Court of Appeals in Houston held that a purported reservation in favor of a stranger of title was void, and rejected the stranger’s argument that the...
A winning strategy in an assignment interpretation case often involves finding a persuasive harmonization between the form of assignment and the exhibit containing property descriptions.
