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Affirmative Defenses Are Insufficient to Rebut the Van Dyke Presumption

Producer's Edge

centered on whether a 1933 deed reserved a floating 1/4 royalty interest or a fixed 1/32 interest. Specifically, the deed’s language reserved “an undivided one-fourth (1/4th) of the usual one-eighth (1/8th) royalty.” Fasken Oil & Ranch, Ltd. , 11-22-00365-CV, 11-23-00001-CV, 2024 Tex.

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Elk Range Royalties follows Permian acquisition with 250,000 net acres from Oxy

Permian Basin Oil and Gas Magazine

billion in capital since its launch in 2020, including assets in Permian Basin and Eagle Ford in Texas. Elk Range Royalties buys mineral and royalty interests across multiple U.S. basins with a portfolio of more than 300,000 net royalty acres and interests in more than 23,500 producing wells.