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MIT on Greenhouse Gasses
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Fasken v. Puig – Another Post-Production Cost Case
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Gill v. Hill — another chapter in due process law in Texas
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Railroad Commission Proposed New Waste Rules
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Who can enforce a pipeline burial covenant in an oil and gas lease?
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Ben F. Vaughan III — the Passing of a Giant
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Geysers of Injected Wastewater in West Texas
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Ammonite Oil & Gas v. Railroad Commission – Supreme Court opinion on MIPA
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The Osage Nation vs. the Wind Farm
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Hamilton v. ConocoPhillips – The first appellate opinion on Production Sharing Agreements
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Update on Opiela v. RRC
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First challenge to new “business courts” legislation filed in Supreme Court
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Texas Supreme Court once again rules against royalty owners in post-production costs case
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What Constitutes Production in “Paying Quantities”?
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DeVilliers Prevail in US Supreme Court
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There is still time to sign up for GDHM Landowner Seminar April 26
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Royalty on Federal Lands
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Disposal of Produced Water in the Permian Basin
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White v. Hilcorp – Heritage v. Nationsbank Again Rears its Ugly Head
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GDHM Land & Mineral Owner Seminar
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Two Cases on Royalty Fractions
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Gill v. Hill – Another Case on Due Process Requirements in a Tax Foreclosure
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Point Energy Partners Permian v. MRC Permian Company – did a force majeure event save the lease?
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Crane County salt water spill from overpressured zone used for water disposal
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GDHM Land & Mineral Owner Seminar next April
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Contrasting Philosophies of Lease Construction: Boulder County v. Crestone Peak (Colo. 2023)
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The New World of “Differentiated/Certified Gas”
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Iskandia Energy Operating vs SWEPI LP – The looming problem of contamination by salt water injection wells in the Permian
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Devillier v. State of Texas: An Important Case for Texas Landowners
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City of Dallas v. Trinity East Energy – Texas Supreme Court Refuses City’s Petition on Appeal of $33 million judgment
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World Electricity Sources in 2022
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Federal District Court Addresses Post-Production Costs in Light of Devon v. Sheppard
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Cactus Water Services v. COP Operating — Who Owns Produced Water?
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PBEX v. Dorchester — Adverse Possession of a Non-Operating Working Interest
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Carbon Contracts for Farmers and Ranchers
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Texas Leads US in Renewables
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Colors of Hydrogen
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Carbon Capture and Underground Storage
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A New Ad Valorem Tax Exemption for Minerals Owned by Charities
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Texas Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Appeal of MIPA Case
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Texas Leads in Solar and Wind Energy Projects in 2023
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“No form of energy is renewable.”
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Dr. Scott Tinker on the Future of Energy
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A Great Resource for New Mexico Oil and Gas Law
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EP Energy v. Storey Minerals – a $41 million most-favored-nations clause
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Damning Report from Environmental Integrity Project on TCEQ’s Failure to Hold Polluters Accountable
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World Energy Consumption by Source, 1900 to 2021
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Devon v. Sheppard — A Win for Royalty Owners
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Railroad Commission v. Apache – The Issue of Standing
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RBN Energy Blog Square One Series: Excellent Tutorial on Exploration and Production
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Betsy Webster v. T.J. Heard: The Story of a Secret Love, Slavery, and a Railroad Lawyer
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Van Dyke v. The Navigator Group – Double Fractions and the Presumed Grant Doctrine
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“whether or not in paying quantities”
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Davis v. JD Minerals: another fixed vs floating royalty dispute
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Year in Review: Significant Cases and Events
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Who wrote “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas”? The jury is still out
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Hahn v. ConocoPhillips — another case on fractional vs. fraction of royalty
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EnerVest v. Mayfield – another loss for royalty owners on post-production costs
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Does the Railroad Commission have to plug P-13 wells?
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Who owns rights to store oil in an underground salt cavern?
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GDHM Land & Mineral Owner Seminar November 18
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Ridgefield Permian v. Diamondback: To what interest does a tax lien on a royalty reserved in an oil and gas lease attach?
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The Disconnect Part 2
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Legal Humor
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Energy Switch, a New Documentary Series with Scott Tinker on Energy and Climate
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Should I Sell Carbon Credits? A Decision Guide for Ranchers
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John Warne Gates: Barbed Wire, Steel, Texaco, Port Arthur, and Horses
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Ownership of Pore Space – North Dakota Supreme Court Opinion Protects Surface Owners’ Rights
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Inflation Reduction Act Tackles Methane Emissions
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James V Allred and the Land Cut: Where is the Shore of the Laguna Madre?
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The Law of Fences
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Hlavinka v. HSC Pipeline Partnership – No Ordinary Condemnation Case
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Capitol Hill Hearing Technologies to Reduce Methane Emissions
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Recent Interesting Oil and Gas Cases
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Mitchell v. MAP Resources-Due Process Meets No-Extrinsic-Evidence Rule
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The Texas Railroad Commission’s Response (so far) to Winter Storm Uri
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Railroad Commission’s Appeal of Ruling on Allocation Wells to be Heard on April 27
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How Texas Can Reach Net Zero Carbon Emissions by 2050
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West Texas Earthquakes
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Updated:
The Cornerstone Speech
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The Boom in Carbon Capture and Storage – Another Source of Revenue for Texas Landowners
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Foote v. Texcel – Oil and Cattle Don’t Mix
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Exxon and “Lawfare”
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Oily Stuff
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Winter Storm Uri: The causes of the massive Texas power failure detailed in UT report
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Nettye Engler Energy v. Bluestone Natural Resources: Texas Supreme Court affirms ruling against royalty owner
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Texas Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Hlavinka v. HSC Pipeline – Important Eminent Domain Issues
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Mitchell v. Map Resources — collateral attack on tax foreclosure judgment
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Texas Riverbeds and the Mineral Interest Pooling Act
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Fallout from February 2021 Freeze Continues
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New Industry Group Forms to Promote Texas Geothermal Energy
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Two Texas Federal District Courts Weigh In On Post-Production Costs
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A Global Breakdown of Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Sector
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Railroad Commission Issues Substantially Revised Rule on Critical Infrastructure
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Countries’ Per Capita Carbon Emissions
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Are we in for another Uri?
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Solar Farms vs. Oil and Gas Development
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China’s Lead in Solar Power
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Excellent OpEd by Dr. Scott Tinker on UN Climate Conference and Critique of IEA Report “Net Zero by 2050: A Roadmap for the Global Energy Sector”
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Texas Senators Grill Railroad Commission Executive Director Wei Wang About Natural Gas Industry Winterization
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Something Completely Different: Fat Bear Week
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Report Out on Christi Craddick Conflicts of Interest at Texas Railroad Commission
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Excellent Report from Deloitte on Transitioning to Renewable Energy Sources
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Railroad Commission Issues Proposed Rule to Address Gas Supply Critical Infrastructure in the Wake of Winter Storm Uri
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Updated:
Mining Bitcoin a Solution to Gas Flaring?
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Two Developments in Efforts to Stem Climate Change
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Hunting Leases in Texas
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EIA Issues Report on Battery Storage in the US
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Abbott and Legislature Get Blowback on Fix of Texas Grid
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Facts About Eggs
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Christi Craddick and the February Freeze
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Something Every Texas Farmer and Rancher Should Know
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Bills Addressing Flaring in Texas Legislature
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BPX v. Strickhausen: When does acceptance of royalty constitute ratification of a pooled unit?
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Wrap-up of bills in Texas Legislature of interest to Texas land and mineral owners
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Texas Solar Energy Boom
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Winners and Losers from Historic Winter Storm
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Travis County Court Holds Railroad Commission Has No Authority to Issue Permits for Allocation and Production Sharing Wells
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Collateral Attacks on Tax Foreclosure Sales vs. Due Process — Two Cases from El Paso Court of Appeals
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Texas Legislature’s Overhaul of ERCOT Board Would Replace Experts With Political Appointees
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Key Laws Texas Landowners Need to Know
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Sundown Energy v. HJSA No. 3 Limited Partnership: Another Poorly Drafted Retained Acreage Clause
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Warren Buffett group lobbying Texas lawmakers for deal to build $8 billion worth of power plants for emergency use (from Texas Tribune)
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BlueStone v. Randle — A Win for Royalty Owners on Post-Production Costs
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Endeavor v. Energen: What does a court do if a lease retained acreage clause is ambiguous?
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What Happened to the Texas Electric Grid?
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Due Process and the No-Extrinsic-Evidence Rule: Challenges to Default Judgments When Service Was By Publication
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Solar Consumption per Capita by Country
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Toxic substance or water supply? Lawmakers to weigh whether wastewater from oil fields could replenish the state’s aquifers
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The Periodic Table of Commodity Returns
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Lyle v. Midway Solar: Solar farm meets accommodation doctrine
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After Five Years of Litigation, Texas Supreme Court Concludes that Lease’s Continuous Development Clause is Ambiguous
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Another Case on Post-Production Costs
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The Passing of a Judicial Giant
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Something Completely Different
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Another Bankruptcy Court Weighs In On Rejection of Gas Contracts
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Mineral Title Dispute Before Texas Supreme Court
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Exxon and Trump
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Democracy in America
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GDHM Land & Mineral Owner Webinars
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An Update: Dinosaur Fossils as “Minerals”
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Debate, Argument and the Rule of Law
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Consent-to-assign Provisions in Oil and Gas Leases – Mayo Foundation v. BP America
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EIA Data on US Energy Flow 2019
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Corpus Christi Court of Appeals Opines on Post-Production Costs
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Supreme Court agrees to hear BPX v. Strickhausen
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The Global Energy Mix
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Solar Energy in Texas and the Chadbourne Ranch
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Texas Reconstruction and the Semicolon Court
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Post-Production Costs Podcast
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Another Chapter in Jimmy McAllen’s Fight with Forest Oil
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TexNet is adding an earthquake monitoring station in Odessa
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The Saga of the Dune Sagebrush Lizard Continues
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Here’s An Interesting Graph on Shale Plays
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Chesapeake Bankruptcy – The Rise and Fall of a 21st Century Wildcatter
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Switch On – a New Documentary about Energy From Dr. Scott Tinker and the Switch Energy Alliance
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Pipeline Loses Condemnation Appeal – Hlavinka v. HSC Pipeline
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Recovery of the Oil Market
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Fifth Circuit Upholds Takings Claim Against Groundwater District
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Texas Supreme Court Acts on Two Significant Oil and Gas Cases
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Bush v. Lone Oak Club – Texas Supreme Court Once Again Dives Into the Arcane Law of Water Boundaries
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Texas Supreme Court Weighs In On Application of Rule Against Perpetuities to Overriding Royalty Reservations
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Solar, Wind, Oil and Coal
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Texas’ “Competitive” Retail Electricity Market
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The State of Crude Oil Inventory
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Sitton Drops Motion to Prorate
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Texas Railroad Commission: Commissioner Sitton’s proposed proration order to be considered May 5; Commissioner Christian opposed
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Proration at the Railroad Commission: Sitton’s motion to conditionally order Texas operators to reduce their oil production by 20% is tabled.
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To Prorate or Not to Prorate?
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Two New Studies from UT Austin on Shale Waste Water
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Who Is Responsible for the Oil Glut?
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Parsley and Pioneer Formally Ask RRC to Prorate Production.
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Royalty Owners’ Rights in Bankruptcy
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Thoughts on Social Distancing
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A Little History of Gas Flaring in Texas
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Oil in the Time of Pandemic
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A Review of World Oil Production and Consumption
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The Changing Dynamics of Mineral Sales
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The Future of Alternative Energy
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Boomtown!
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Follow Me With an RSS Feed
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Can a Gathering Agreement Survive the Bankruptcy of the Producer?
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ConocoPhillips v. Ramirez – Devise of “all right, title and interest in and to Ranch ‘Las Piedras” did not include decedent’s mineral estate
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Bluestone v. Randle – Another Case to Watch – Post-Production Costs
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Significant Oil & Gas Cases in 2019, and Pending Cases to Watch in 2020
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End of a Decade: Rise of the Permian
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More Focus on Environmental Consequences of Methane Emissions
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Lyle v. Midway Solar – Solar Farm Meets Accommodation Doctrine
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Record Settlement in Citizens’ Suit against Formosa Plastics for Contamination in Texas Waters
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The Economics of Flaring
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Fight Over Flaring in the Eagle Ford
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Two Fun Resources
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How Fracking Works
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The Railroad Commission and the Coal Industry
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Arkansas Case On Post-Production Costs
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Study Concludes Some Earthquakes in West Texas Likely Caused by Fracing
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When is a contract provision a liquidated damages clause, and when is a liquidated damages clause an unenforceable penalty?
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Cimarex v. Anadarko – Is a lease held by production if the lessee does not participate in the well and there is no operating agreement?
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Produced Water Supersystems
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Texas Supreme Court Opines on Consent-to-Assign Provision
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Chesapeake v. Bell – Another Decision Construing an Express Drainage Offset Clause
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Unit-Line Allocation Wells
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Energy – the Big Picture
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North Dakota Supreme Court Decides for Royalty Owner on Post-Production Costs
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ConocoPhillips v. Ramirez – What is the effect of an oil and gas lease signed by the owner of a life estate?
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Flaring in the Permian
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Solar Leases
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Administrative Hearings in Texas: Three Recent Cases
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Trial v. Dragon – The Duhig Doctrine and Estoppel by Deed
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How to Identify and Resolve Your Oil and Gas Royalty Underpayments
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Juneteenth
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What Happens to Unclaimed Royalties?
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Burlington v. Texas Crude – another Supreme Court Case on Post-Production Costs
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Death of Eminent Domain Bill and Other Legislative Maneuvers
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The TPLT Proxy War
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Texas Railroad Commission Sued to Force Regulation of Pipeline Route
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Increased Gas Flaring in the Permian
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Players in the Permian
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Strickhausen v. Petrohawk – Ratification of Pooled Units
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Texas Outfitters v. Nicholson and the Duty of the Holder of the Executive Right
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The Law of Hydraulic Fracturing
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Net Royalty Acres Defined
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San Antonio Court of Appeals interprets an express offset clause in an oil and gas lease
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Herein of mineral interests, royalty interests, working interests and overriding royalty interests
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Great post by Tiffany Dowell on Eminent Domain
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Gas Flaring in the Permian
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Big Oil and Climate Change
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Exxon and Chevron in the Permian
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Eminent Domain and the Right to Survey
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The Geopolitics of Oil
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EIA Working During Shutdown
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A Tsunami of Crude Exports?
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Endeavor v. Discovery Operating on rehearing
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Takeaway Capacity in the Permian and Reflections on Judicial Elections in light of Murphy v. Adams
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9th Circuit Court of Appeals holds that dinosaur fossils are “minerals” under Montana law
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The cost of electricity
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Miller on Negotiating Oil and Gas Leases
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Murphy v. Adams – What is an “offset well”?
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Huddleston on Shale Plays in Texas
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Vote for Me!
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Seeligson v. Devon – Plaintiffs (Almost) Get Class Certification
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Dr. Scott Tinker’s New Project
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Rational Decision-making in the Post-Rational World
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Devon v. Apache – Royalty and the Non-Consenting Co-Tenant
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Oil and Gas News
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Three Supreme Court Cases to Watch
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5th Annual GDHM Land & Mineral Owner Seminar November 9
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TLMA Members Meeting
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News from the Railroad Commission
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“Royalty Lease” – Lessor Beware
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The EPA and the Rule of Law
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The Relation Between Lease Contracts and Forced Pooling Statutes
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Lindemann Properties v. Campbell – the Scope of Easements
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Can Surface Owner force Lessee to Buy his Groundwater?
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Battle of the Nueces
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Nueces County vs. San Patricio County: Texas’ Jarndyce v. Jarndyce
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Diverting Flared Gas for Atmospheric Water Harvesting
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Water Wars in the Permian?
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Texas Supreme Court Decides Another Fraction-of-Royalty Case
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Happy 4th
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Railroad Commission Jurisdiction Over Groundwater Contamination
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Supreme Court to Weigh In On Duty of Holder of Executive Rights
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Another Retained Acreage Clause Case Arrives in Supreme Court
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Two Charts
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NARO Texas Convention July 18-20 in San Antonio
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Royalty Owners and Cotenancy: Devon Energy Production Co. v. Apache Corporation
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Reservations vs. Exceptions
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EIA US Energy Flow
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Texas Anti-SLAPP Statute Used in Oil & Gas Lease Dispute
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Texas Supreme Court Opines on Retained Acreage Clauses
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Superior Court of Pennsylvania Disagrees with Texas Supreme Court on Whether Rule of Capture Applies to Hydraulic Fracturing
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MD America’s Remarkable Use of Allocation Wells
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When Does No Warranty Mean No Warranty?
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ConocoPhillips v. Koopmann: does a reserved term royalty interest violate the Rule Against Perpetuities?
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The Kildays’ Adventure in Cambodia
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Challenge to Devon Allocation Well
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Has the Oil Market Fundamentally Changed?
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Liquidated Damages and Penalties
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Production Sharing Agreements
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Retained Acreage Clauses
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The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
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Hooks v. Samson – The Last Chapter
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Pecos County is Center of Solar Power Boom
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Mega Pads
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Art Berman on the Permian
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Should I Sell My Minerals?
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Lawrence Wright, “The Dark Bounty of Texas Oil”
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My Favorite Holiday Card
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Checklist for Negotiating an Oil and Gas Lease
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Three Recent Arguments in Texas Supreme Court: Offset Clauses, the Rule Against Perpetuities, and the Duhig Rule
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Mont Clair, Reeves County
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Dragon v. Trial: the Duhig Rule Reigns
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A Saga of Texas Land and Oil Law, by Edgar Freeman Smith
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Flaring in the Permian
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No. 500
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Cases to Watch in Texas Supreme Court
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House and Senate Interim Charges Issued
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Publius
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UT Earthquake Website Up and Running
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H.L. Hunt Estate Fee Dispute Lands in Texas Supreme Court
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Courts Reject Trump Administration Efforts to Delay Implementation of Obama Methane Emission Rules
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Texas Supreme Court Denies Motion for Rehearing in BP America Production Co. v. Red Deer Resources, LLC
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Supreme Court Considers Two Cases on Retained Acreage Clauses
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Permian Basin Well Density
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New Challenge to Pipeline Eminent Domain Powers
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U.S.-Mexico Energy Trade
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Texas Outfitters v. Nicholson – the Duty of the Holder of the Executive Right to Lease
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Shrinking Sands
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Monitoring Lease Compliance
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Double-Pooling? Samson Exploration v. T.S. Reed Properties, Inc.
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New Report Criticizes TCEQ Enforcement Policies
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Texas and Pacific Railway and Texas Pacific Land Trust – a History of Railroads in Texas
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Denbury-Texas Rice Fight Continues
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End of the Road for DISH
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85th Legislature – Legislation of Interest to Land and Mineral Owners
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TAMEST Report on Impacts of Shale Development in Texas
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Beware the Blanket Conveyance Clause in a Mineral Deed
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Oil and the Navy
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In Honor of Memorial Day
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BP America v. Red Deer Resources – the Shut-in Royalty Clause
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Railroad Commission: Follow Pennsylvania’s Lead
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Lightning Oil v. Anadarko – Supreme Court Rules on Subsurface Trespass Claim
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Post-Production Costs after Hyder
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Petrodollars in the Texas Legislature
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Another Great Graph from EIA
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Fourth Annual GDHM Land and Mineral Owner Seminar May 12
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What Constitutes “Reworking Operations” under an Oil and Gas Lease?
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Black Sunday
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Great Permian Graphic
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The Rise of Solar Power
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Judge Strikes Down Dimock Verdict
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EIA Report on Energy Production and Consumption
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Consent-to-Assign Provisions in Oil and Gas Leases
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Lightning Oil v. Anadarko Set for Oral Argument in Supreme Court
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Texas Supreme Court Declines to Address Injunctive Relief as Remedy to Prevent Groundwater Contamination in ExxonMobil v. Lazy R Ranch
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Burlington v. Texas Crude – Another Post-Production Cost Case
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What Does the Country Really Think About Global Warming?
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What Landowners Need to Know about Field Rules
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TAMU Energy Law Symposium
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Jack Pope, Former Chief Justice of Texas Supreme Court, Dies at age 103
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Railroad Commission Enforcement Data Online
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High Tech to detect pipeline leaks
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Texas Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Three Cases of Interest to Land and Mineral Owners
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Permian Basin Deals
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Russia Today
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Landowners Lose in Denbury v. Texas Rice Land Partners
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Happy New Year
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Protest Camps in Reeves County?
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Can a Division Order Modify Lease Provisions?
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Cowboys and the Law – the “Cowboy Way”
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The Problem of Abandoned Wells
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Forest Oil v. El Rucio Land and Cattle Company, No. 14-0979, Texas Supreme Court
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Texas Agriculture Law Blog
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OPEC and Crude
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Quakes and the Commission
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The Permian Boom
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Harold Hamm, Donald Trump, and Earthquakes
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Pennsylvania Appellate Court Dismisses Landowner’s Claim Against Range Resources of Water Well Contamination
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Texas Sunset Advisory Commission to Vote on Final Recommendations for Railroad Commission Sunset Legislation
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Will Rogers and Politics
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Two Sanchez Oil & Gas Deals in the Eagle Ford
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Two New Cases: Fractional Royalty, Fraction of Royalty, or Mineral Interest?
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Royalty Owner Revolt Against Chesapeake in Pennsylvania
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What Does The Texas Railroad Commission Do?
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Fracking and Water Use in Arid Regions of the U.S.
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Regmund v. Talisman – Class Action for Royalty Underpayments in Eagle Ford
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Apache’s “Alpine High”
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Second Appeal of Denbury v. Texas Rice Land Partners Argued Before Texas Supreme Court Today
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Houston Chronicle Endorses RRC Libertarian Candidate Mark Miller
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Another Oklahoma Earthquake Causes Shut-down of 54 Disposal Wells
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Texas Supreme Court Agrees to Consider Three Oil and Gas Cases
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EPA Grades Railroad Commission on Regulation of Injection Wells
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More on Railroad Commission Sunset Review
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Public Hearing Set to Hear Comments Concerning Sunset Report on Texas Railroad Commission
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Chesapeake Exits Barnett Shale
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Memes Promote Fracking
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Another Chesapeake Royalty Suit: Addax Minerals Fund v. Chesapeake, No. DC-16-07867, Dallas County
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Debate over Allocation Wells Continues
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Texas Oil & Gas Bankruptcies filed in Texas 2016
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Landowners Continue to Fight Trans-Pecos Pipeline
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Crosstex North Texas Pipeline v. Gardiner – a Treatise on the Law of Nuisance
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Two Good Websites for Shale Plays from Norton Rose Fulbright
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Great graphic from the Energy Information Administration
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