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Market Value at the Well Trumps Free-Use Clause

By Charles Sartain on October 26, 2022
Posted in Contract Disputes, operations, Royalty Disputes
Co-author, Gray Reed partner Jim Reed

The common thread throughout the myriad oil and gas royalty cases decided recently by Texas courts could be “harmony”, the reading of different, seemingly conflicting, contract provisions so as to give meaning to all.

In Enervest Operating, LLC v. Mayfield and Ingham the Fourth Court of Appeal harmonized a…

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I have been helping clients of all types resolve their commercial disputes for most of my 35 years as a lawyer. Of the many industries in which I have worked, the energy business is the most fascinating…More

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