Richard F. Brown The following is not a legal opinion. You should consult your attorney if the case may be of significance to you. Transocean Offshore Deepwater Drilling, Inc. v. ENI U.S. Operating Co., Inc., 957 F.Supp.2d 836 (S.D. Tex. 2013) applied admiralty law to interpret the risk of loss provisions in an […]
Richard F. Brown The following is not a legal opinion. You should consult your attorney if the case may be of significance to you. Sonerra Resources Corporation v. Helmerich & Payne Intern. Drilling Co., No. 01-11-00459-CV, 2012 WL 3776428 (Tex. App.—Houston [1st Dist.] Aug. 30, 2012, pet. denied) (mem. op.), held that under […]
Richard F. Brown The following is not a legal opinion. You should consult your attorney if the case may be of some significance to you. Dresser Industries, Inc. v. Page Petroleum, Inc., 853 S.W. 2d 505 (Tex. 1993) reviews the effectiveness of contractual language releasing in advance oil well service companies from liability for […]
Richard F. Brown The following is not a legal opinion. You should consult your attorney if the case may be of significance to you. Primrose Operating Company, Inc. v. Jones1 holds that the standard form drilling contract used by the parties did not provide that all operations conducted after the well exceeded the footage […]
Richard F. Brown Mission Resources, Inc. v. Garza Energy Trust [166 S.W.3d 301 (Tex. App. – Corpus Christi 2005, pet. filed)] imposes $10,000,000 in punitive damages in a case involving subsurface trespass, bad faith pooling, and breach of the implied covenants to develop and to protect against drainage. The case arose in South Texas where […]
Richard F. Brown The following is not a legal opinion. You should consult your attorney if the case may be of significance to you. Springer Ranch, Ltd. v. Jones, 421 S.W.3d 273 (Tex. App.—San Antonio 2013, no pet.) held that royalties from present and future horizontal wells must be allocated based on the […]
Richard F. Brown The following is not a legal opinion. You should consult your attorney if the case may be of significance to you. Cmty. Bank of Raymore v. Chesapeake Exploration, L.L.C., 416 S.W.3d 750 (Tex. App.—El Paso 2013, no pet.) construes the operation and relationship of the habendum clause, continuous development clause, […]
