PNP Petroleum I, LP and PNP Management, Inc. v. Edna Earnest Taylor and Elizabeth Earnest Herbst.

OPINION

Opinion by:

CATHERINE STONE, Chief Justice.

This appeal arises from a dispute over whether the term of an oil and gas lease was extended by a payment made by the lessee. After the parties concluded their negotiation of the lease terms, the lease provided that the lessee could pay a “shut-in well royalty payment” to extend the term of the lease “[i]f, at the expiration of the primary term there is located on the leased premises a well or wells not producing oil/gas in paying quantities.” After sustaining objections to the lessee’s summary judgment evidence, and applying the generally…