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Top Hand 2024: Honoring Our Own

Permian Basin Oil and Gas Magazine

He founded Summit Petroleum with his son Matt in 2007 and oversaw planning and development of the familys recently completed Summit Center, a 20-acre office/retail/park complex in north Midland. Summit runs two-to-three drilling rigs and has a capital budget of about $250 million.

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OCS Lease Expiration: MMS Denial of Suspension of Operations Upheld

The Energy Law

Due to weather conditions and the limitations of ATP’s contracted drilling rig, ATP was unable to get a well drilled prior to the lease expiration date. In denying ATP’s request for an SOO, the MMS relied upon its Notice to Lessees No.

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Louisiana Second Circuit Addresses: (1) Creation of Mineral Servitudes Via Notarial Acts of Correction; (2) Obstacles Suspending the Prescription of Nonuse from Running Against Mineral Servitudes; and (3) Payment of Court Costs in Concursus Actions

The Energy Law

The first tract, which covered 63 acres, was transferred through a series of agreements including an act of exchange and a subsequent cash sale in 2007. [8] 25] In addition, the operator was unable to move a drilling rig onto the wellsite due to weather in February 2004, and as a result, the operator had to pay standby time for the rig. [26]

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