Raw Hide Oil & Gas, Inc. v. Maxus Exploration Co.

PIRTLE, Justice.

This action involves a title and ownership dispute between the gas rights owner and the oil and casinghead gas rights owner, under two separate mineral leases on a tract of land situated in Moore County, Texas. Throughout this opinion, gas belonging to the owner of the gas rights will be referred to as “gas rights gas,” whereas gas belonging to the owner of the oil and casinghead gas rights will be referred to simply as “casinghead gas.”

Diamond Shamrock Exploration Company, now known as Maxus Exploration Company (both generally referred to as Maxus), the gas rights owner,…