Producer's Edge

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

The Texas Supreme Court heard oral arguments last week in a case that could substantially clarify, or even fundamentally reshape, the characterization and ownership of underground storage rights in Texas. The case was Myers-Woodward v. The case remains pending before the Texas Supreme Court on petition for review.

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Producer's Edge

MAY 19, 2025

May 16, 2025), the Texas Supreme Court resolved two significant issues affecting mineral owners and surface owners: (1) who owns the empty caverns created by salt mining operations, and (2) how to calculate royalty payments on produced salt. Despite this substantial production, USM did not pay Myers any royalty. Can a Cavern Be Owned?

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Producer's Edge

JUNE 2, 2025

This particular species of lease washouts is based on two recent cases from the El Paso Court of Appeals – Cimarex Energy Co. Cimarex instead chose to rely on production from several wells Anadarko drilled in 2011 and 2012. In a similar case, Cromwell v. Anadarko Petroleum Corp., 3d 73, 93 (Tex. 3d 860 (Tex.

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The Energy Law

JANUARY 18, 2011

Dunn-McCampbell Royalty Interest Inc. The case involved land in the Padre Island National Park, created in 1963. by: Megan J. Nat’l Park Serv. , 09-40187 (5th Cir.

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The Energy Law

OCTOBER 4, 2018

for a one-fourth (1/4) mineral royalty and as much as ten thousand ($10,000) dollars per acre bonus royalty.” In that case, the plaintiff-lessors argued, the lease should be rescinded based on their error. 2d 640, 641-43 (W.D. 9/22/10); 48 So. 3d 341, 342-43.

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The Energy Law

JUNE 12, 2017

1] In the case, a landowner sued its mineral lessees for: (1) failure to provide a recordable act evidencing the expiration of a mineral lease under Mineral Code articles 206-209 and (2) failure to pay royalties under Mineral Code articles 137-140. [2] in unpaid royalties and an additional double damages penalty of $484,058.52

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