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Viper’s Royalty Model: Worth a Look

Permian Basin Oil and Gas Magazine

Its royalty-focused, asset-light model stands out versus traditional E&Ps like Diamondback, offering high efficiency and lower risk. Viper’s reliance on Diamondback, which operates over 70 percent of its Midland Basin royalty acres, introduces concentration risk and could limit flexibility if Diamondback’s priorities shift.

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Texas Supreme Court Holds that Add-Back Provision in Oil and Gas Lease Required Royalties to be Paid on Prices in Excess of the Producers’ Gross Proceeds

The Energy Law

2023), in which it held that lessees owed royalties in excess of their gross proceeds, specifically “adding back” costs incurred by third-party buyers that were enumerated in the sales contract and subtracted from the sales price. The lessees owned working interests in certain oil and gas leases that were executed in 2007. 2d 118 (Tex.

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