Richard F. Brown The following is not a legal opinion. You should consult your attorney if the case may be of significance to you. Americo Energy Resources, L.L.C. v. Moore, No. 13-08-0097-CV, 2008 WL 3984169 (Tex. App.—Corpus Christi Aug. 29, 2008, no pet.), holds that transporting oil or gas through an unauthorized pipeline is a […]
Richard F. Brown The following is not a legal opinion. You should consult your attorney if the case may be of significance to you. FPL Farming Ltd. v. Environmental Processing Systems, L.C., 351 S.W.3d 306 (Tex. 2011), FPL Farming Ltd. v. Envtl. Processing Sys., L.C., 383 S.W.3d 274 (Tex. App.—Beaumont 2012, pet. filed) […]
Richard F. Brown The following is not a legal opinion. You should consult your attorney if the case may be of significance to you. Rogers v. Ricane Enterprises, Inc., 884 S.W.2d 763 (Tex. App.—Amarillo July 24, 1996, ) was a decision written on remand under instructions to consider the conversion issues raised by […]
Richard F. Brown The following is not a legal opinion. You should consult your attorney if the case may be of significance to you. Longoria v. ExxonMobil Corp., 255 S.W.3d 174 (Tex. App.—San Antonio 2008, pet. denied) reviews party joinder issues in the context of trespass to try title and declaratory judgment claims. The […]
Richard F. Brown Fasken Land and Minerals, Ltd. v. Occidental Permian Ltd., S.W.3d , 2005 WL 1539260 (Tex. App.—El Paso 2005, pet. denied), addresses disputes involving a preferential right to purchase provision and a removal of operator provision. Occidental or its affiliates (“OXY”) were the operator and seller of a 75% interest in the MFU […]
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. Wilson v. United Texas Transmission Co., 797 S.W. 2d 231 (Corpus Christi 1990, no writ), reviews the liability of a gas purchaser to a royalty owner when the lessee […]
Richard F. Brown The following is not a legal opinion. You should consult your attorney if the case may be of significance to you. HECI Exploration Co. v. Neel, 982 S.W.2d 881 (Tex. 1998), is probably the most significant oil and gas case for oil and gas royalty owners in the past decade. It […]