Samson Exploration, LLC (Formerly Samson Lone Star, L.P.) v. T.S. Reed Properties, Inc.

In this dispute involving mineral interests pooled for natural gas production, lessors and other stakeholders allege the lessee underpaid royalties owed to them under their mineral leases and pooling agreements. 1 One group of stakeholders asserts claims arising from the amendment of a pooled-unit designation that changed the unit’s boundaries and withdrew a producing well from that unit (the Unpooling Stakeholders). Another group seeks to enforce a contractual obligation to pay royalties on a pooled unit that indisputably encompasses two producing wells, but -one of those wells had already…