Oil and Gas Lawyer

MARCH 26, 2025

I ran across a fascinating opinion from the 10 th Circuit Court of Appeals that provides a window into Wyoming history. Iron Bar Holdings v. Cape , No. 23-8043, decided March 18. The facts are these: Iron Bar Holdings owns a ranch in southwest Wyoming covering 50 square miles. But within its boundaries are some 11,000 acres of federal and state public lands, some of which are completely enclosed by Iron Bars lands.

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MARCH 18, 2025

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Oil and Gas Lawyer

MARCH 10, 2025

The Delaware Mountain Group is a group of formations including the Bell Canyon, Cherry Canyon and Brushy Canyon formations, deposits in ancient canyons filled in over the ages, and are productive of oil and gas. These formations lie above parts of the Wolfcamp formation in the Permian Basin. Disposal of produced water in the Permian has become a big problem, and the Texas Railroad Commission has granted permits for disposal wells that inject produce water into depths within the Delaware Mountain

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Oil and Gas Lawyer

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The podcast The Disconnect has begun Season Three, about the role of gas producers and pipelines in the Big Freeze of 2022., This is the third of a series by Mose Buschele , energy and environmental reporter at KUT and NPR. The first two episodes are out, and you can listen here. Mose has done a great job making the complex Texas grid understandable and calling out those responsible for the 2022 blackout.

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Oil and Gas Lawyer

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

I have been reading a biography of Roger Williams, the founder of Rhode Island, by John M. Barry: Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty. Williams was born in 1603 and as a young man became a friend and assistant to Lord Edward Coke, who at the time was sixty years of age. Coke is known by lawyers as a pillar of the development of the common law in England.

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Oil and Gas Lawyer

JANUARY 28, 2025

Our firm represented the Opielas in two cases involving a Magnolia horizontal well in Karnes County: a suit against Magnolia in Karnes County, and a suit against the Texas Railroad Commission in Travis County. In both cases the Opielas contended that Magnolia had no right to drill a horizontal well located partly on their land. Because this was a significant case addressing allocation and PSA wells, this post will go into the somewhat complex facts and history in some detail.

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Oil and Gas Lawyer

JANUARY 13, 2025

On the last day of 2024 the Texas Supreme Court issued its opinion in ConocoPhillips v. Hahn , No. 23-0024, putting to rest a long-running dispute between Kenneth Hahn and ConocoPhillips (COP). The opinion deals with a fixed vs. floating NPRI reservation, and a stipulation of interest addressing the reservation. Kenneth Hahn owned the surface estate and 1/4th of the minerals in 37 acres of land in DeWitt County.

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