If an operator or nonoperator owns only a partial interest in the well or oil and gas and the operator or nonoperator pays a larger proportion of the cost of plugging the well than his proportionate interest in the well or oil and gas, he has a cause of action against the other operators and nonoperators for their proportionate shares of the cost of plugging.
Tex. Nat. Res. Code § 89.081
CAUSE OF ACTION FOR DISPROPORTIONATE SHARE OF COST
Acts 1977, 65th Leg., p. 2554, ch. 871, art
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