11/12/2025 8:53:40 PM Podcast: All’s Well that Ends in a Well: Drilling Contracts By Liskow In this episode of “Energy Law This Week,” hosts Matt Jones and April L. Rolen-Ogden discuss significant legal cases affecting the energy...
6/4/2025 3:18:47 PM Podcast: Royalty: The Price of Production By Liskow In this episode of “Energy Law This Week,” hosts Matt Jones and April L. Rolen-Ogden discuss recent cases in energy law, focusing...
4/16/2025 12:32:50 PM Fifth Circuit Provides Rare Overview of the Doctrine of Equitable Recoupment By Jana Grauberger Margaret Chavez James Kittrell When an operator mistakenly overpays a royalty owner, it can recoup the overpayment from future royalties. While this is a common...
6/6/2024 8:58:37 PM Texas Supreme Court Determines That Off-Lease Fuel is Deductible from Royalties Valued at the Well By Sam Allen Jana Grauberger James Kittrell On May 17, 2024, the Texas Supreme Court held that when a lease requires royalties to be paid on all gas sold or used off the...
7/10/2023 3:56:07 PM Louisiana State Mineral Board to Consider Retaining Third Party Counsel to Pursue Underpayment of Royalty Claims Associated with Natural Gas Production on State Lands and Waterbottoms By Jeff Lieberman The Louisiana State Mineral & Energy Board (“Mineral Board”) is the body tasked with overseeing the mineral resources owned by the State...
4/4/2023 6:29:31 PM Louisiana Legislature to Consider Amendments to Forced Pooling Regime Requiring Operators to Pay Lessors of Nonparticipating Working Interest Owners Directly By Michael Ishee April Rolen-Ogden Brittan Bush Liskow +1 more... Show less On Friday, March 31, 2023, Representative Larry Bagley of Louisiana’s District 7 proposed amendments to Louisiana Revised Statutes §...
3/15/2023 8:14:40 PM 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 By Sam Allen Jana Grauberger Alma Shields James Kittrell +1 more... Show less The Texas Supreme Court recently released its opinion in Devon Energy Production Company, L.P. v. Sheppard, — S.W.3d —, No. 20-0904, 2023...
3/10/2023 8:22:00 PM Lithium Extraction May Soon Turn Produced Water Into Produced Profits By William Heaton Jamie Rhymes As a key component of most batteries, lithium is ubiquitous in our daily lives. From the moment your alarm on your cell phone goes off in...
3/7/2023 5:23:40 PM Texas Supreme Court Holds that References to “One-Eighth” in Old Oil and Gas Conveyances Presumptively Refer to the Entire Mineral Estate By Sam Allen Alma Shields James Kittrell The Texas Supreme Court recently released its opinion in Van Dyke v. Navigators Grp., No. 21-0146, 2023 WL 2053175 (Tex. Feb. 17, 2023),...
2/28/2023 7:09:26 PM Louisiana Supreme Court Holds That Payment of Mineral Royalties Judgment Against LDNR is a Matter of Legislative Discretion, Reversing Grant of Mandamus By William Heaton In Crooks v. State of Louisiana through the Department of Natural Resources, 22-0625 (La. 1/1/23), ___ So. 3d ___, 2023 WL 526075, the...
3/31/2022 7:18:53 PM Long-Awaited Victory on the Proper Deductibility of Post-Production Costs from Unleased Mineral Owners – The Western District of Louisiana Reverses Course By April Rolen-Ogden Brittan Bush Michael Ishee Paul Adkins Liskow +2 more... Show less For nearly three years, unit operators in Louisiana have waited to see whether the Western District of Louisiana would change course or...
7/1/2021 7:40:06 PM New Developments in Shocking Case Before the Texas Supreme Court Regarding Construction of Novel Oil & Gas Royalty Term By Liskow Devon Energy Production Company, L.P. v. Sheppard is a royalty dispute between several lessees, Devon Energy Production Co., L.P., et....