Prevails over what, you ask? In Gladney v. Anglo-Dutch Energy, LLC, a conditional allowable from the Office of Conservation didn’t supersede lease royalty obligations.
How did we get here?
Anglo-Dutch completed a gas well on the Gladneys’ lease and then filed a pre-application notice for a compulsory drilling and production unit
Texas’s proposed Oil and Gas Majority Rights Protection Act(House Bill 100) has many detractors whose reasons are intense and varied. Here are some of them:
It’s About Liberty
It’s my property that I’ve worked for years to develop (or not, but that’s my concern and not yours). I should be able
There are plenty of reasons why compulsory unitization is good for Texas, say the proponents of Texas House Bill 100, the Oil and Gas Majority Rights Protection Act.
More production = more money
The foremost benefit of fieldwide unitization is enhanced production. Oil and or gas that would otherwise be left