There is a “Rorschach” way to examine your thinking about the controversy over fossil fuels and global warming.
Psychologists use the Rorschach test to examine a person’s personality characteristics and emotional functioning. It’s been employed to detect underlying thought disorder, especially disorganized thinking as evidenced by disorganized speech. Try this on yourself.
Here is
Vestiges of the early Haynesville Shale land rush remain.
Imagine: The lease is about to expire. Lessee (Mecom) offers lessor (Henderson) $90 per acre for an extension, telling him, “I could extend for two more years without consent so I’m giving you free money.” He explains his intention to drill more Cotton
Ever the schoolyard bully, the EPA has been pushing its agenda against the will of the states, at least until the principal intervenes.
A minority (that’s the Republicans) report by the U. S. Senate Committee on the Environment & Public Works asserts that the EPA is in violation of “cooperative federalism”, in which the EPA
The Bureau of Land Management released a new Instructional Memorandum 2013-151, clarifying the re-evaluation of bonds required for operations on federal lands. The purpose was to clearly define the terms and conditions now set out in the regulation governing the subject: 43 CFR § 3104.5(b). Here is a brief summary of
Even if you aren’t the actual plaintiff in a lawsuit you can still be personally liable for breach of a covenant not to sue. It’s easy! Sign a release in your individual capacity, cause an entity you control to bring a lawsuit, and then financially support the suit. And you can share the liability with
As another college football weekend approaches, let’s talk whiskey. All work and no play might save Jack’s liver from decaying into a bile-filled mass of diseased tissue, but the oil man needs a break from the burden of termination clauses, stolen trade secrets, and – as revealed by Yoko and Shawn – desecration of Mother
The fellow on the right is after your lease. The result in Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation v. Healey, LP was so bad for the lessee I’m going directly to …
The Takeaways
Landmen: First, when offered a lease with automatic termination language, run away like you’re chased by an Obamacare Navigator who hasn’t undergone
How is a producer to deal with a demanding and formidable lessor’s insistence on stringent surface protection? How about demands from environmental groups and government entities? One way might be to educate himself and his fellow stakeholders.
One group at the forefront of education efforts is Texas A&M University-Kingsville’s Caesar Kleberg Wildlife
By Jim Reed and David Leonard
The Fifth Circuit has taken steps to fine-tune the interpretation and implementation of the agreement BP negotiated to settle its massive liabilities arising from the April 2010 oil spill following the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon. Interpretation of the 1,000- plus-page settlement agreement—which the court described as one
Consider this while celebrating the resurrection of Big Tex: When a lease prohibits post-production cost deductions, can a lessee deduct those costs from a lessor’s royalty? Yes, says Potts v. Chesapeake Exploration, L.L.C. In a market value lease, where lessee sells the gas “at the well” and the court applies the netback approach to calculating