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The El Paso Court of Appeals tangled with the accommodation doctrine in Lyle v. ...
Texas courts are very reluctant to hold that oil and gas lease provisions are ambiguous. ...
Netty Engler Energy, LP has asked the Texas Supreme Court to review the decision of ...
Judge David Jones issued a memorandum opinion in opinion in Chesapeake Energy’s ...
The Texas Supreme Court will hear arguments in December in Concho Resources v. Ellison ...
The opinion addresses issues that, remarkably, have never been discussed by a Texas court ...
Plaintiffs’ leases provided for royalties on oil and gas to be based on gross proceeds of ...
I read recently that, because of increased wind and solar generation capacity in Texas ...
After failed efforts of the industry to self-police destruction of lizard habitat in the ...
The Court of Appeals ruled in favor off the Hlavinkas on two issues: first, it held ...
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has held that a landowner has stated a judiciable ...
The Court denied Chesapeake’s petition in Chesapeake v. Bell, construing an express ...
Nature sometimes does not cooperate with the laws created by humans to establish ...
The Texas Supreme Court issued its opinion in Yowell v. Granite Operating Company, again ...
Texas Railroad Commissioner Ryan Sitton announced today that he would ...
Commissioner Ryan Sitton has published his proposed conditional order imposing ...
The Texas Railroad Commission heard comments on the proposal from Pioneer ...
Another recent bankruptcy court ruling may bode ill for producers and royalty ...
As evidenced by the fight between Williams MLP Operating and EXCO Operating over ...
The oil and gas industry is at the beginning of a significant downturn. Oil and gas prices ...
The Court decided that, under Randle’s lease, Bluestone could not deduct post ...
In Texas Outfitters v. Nicholson, the Texas Supreme Court again addressed the duty ...
Happy New Year. The decade now ending was the decade of the Permian Basin. ...
Plaintiffs Kenneth Lyle and Linda Morrison have appealed the dismissal of their suit ...