Energetics, Ltd v. Whitmill’s Empirical Analysis

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2 district · 8 state decisions

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1. “The typical lease grants the lessee the exclusive right to enter the land to explore, drill, and produce oil and gas. 1 Williams & Meyers, Oil & Gas, § 202.1, p 21. The lessor retains a reversionary interest in the mineral estate. See 3A Summers, Oil and Gas, § 601, p 310; Lampman, Oil and Gas Royalty, 42 Mich. St B J 27 (March, 1963). At termination of such a lease, the oil and gas rights revert to “the grantors of the lease, their heirs or assigns.” Jupiter Oil Co. v. Snow, 819 S.W.2d 466, 468 (Tex.1991); Kaiser v. Love, 163 Tex. 558, 560 , 358 S.W.2d 586 (1962). It is evident that the transfer of an interest in oil and gas occurs both when a lease takes effect and when the leasehold interest reverts to the interest owner upon termination of the lease.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Frontier Energy, LLC v. Aurora Energy, Ltd. (In Re Aurora Oil & Gas Corp.)

2. “`in any land owned by any person other than the owner of the surface, which has not been sold, leased, mortgaged or transferred . . . for a period of 20 years shall, in the absence of the issuance of a drilling permit . . . be deemed abandoned.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Ricks v. Vap

3. “there would be nothing to prevent the owner of a severed interest from executing a lease with a primary term much longer than twenty years. Thus, a severed interest might be sheltered from the operation of the act for an indefinite period.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ricks v. Vap