Legal Opinion
Lightning Oil Co. v. Anadarko E&P Onshore, LLC
Texas Supreme Court
Decided May 19, 2017No. 15-0910PublishedCited by 229 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Johnson
This case concerns whose permission is necessary for an oil and gas operator to drill through a mineral estate it does not own to reach minerals under an adjacent tract of land.
Anadarko E&P Onshore, LLC, entered into an oil and gas lease that restricted its use of the surface estate and required it to drill from off-site locations “when prudent and feasible.” As a result, Anadarko planned to locate well sites on the surface of adjacent tracts and use horizontal drilling to produce minerals from its lease. Briscoe Ranch, Inc., owned an adjacent surface estate and agreed that Anadarko could…
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