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Compulsory Unitization Undermines Texas Values (Rhetorically Speaking)

By Charles Sartain on March 12, 2013
Posted in Pooling and Unitization

With Travis Booher

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…

Compulsory Unitization is a Grand Idea (Rhetorically Speaking)

By Charles Sartain on February 15, 2013
Posted in Pooling and Unitization

Co-author Travis Booher

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…

What‘s in a Name? Is Texas House Bill 100 Really Forced “Pooling”?

By Charles Sartain on January 30, 2013
Posted in Pooling and Unitization

Co-author Travis Booher

“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet”. (This situation is more like the star-crossed lovers of this famous passage than you might think; let’s hope this session’s Act III doesn’t end the same way.)

We’ve been called to task because of…

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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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