2017 OIL & GAS CASE LAW UPDATE CHRISTOPHER KULANDER, DIRECTOR AND PROFESSOR, HARRY L. REED OIL & GAS LAW INSTITUTE SOUTH TEXAS COLLEGE OF LAW HOUSTON† I.
DENBURY GREEN PIPELINE-TEXAS, LLC V. TEXAS RICE LAND PARTNERS, LTD. .............................................................................. 281 A. Texas Rice I ............................................................................ 282 B. Texas Rice II ........................................................................... 284 II. BP AM. PROD. CO. V. LADDEX, LTD. ................................................ 289 III. DAVIS V. MUELLER .......................................................................... 296 IV. FOREST OIL CORP. V. EL RUCIO LAND & CATTLE CO. .................... 299 V. LIGHTNING OIL CO. V. ANADARKO E&P ONSHORE LLC.................. 305 VI. SAMSON EXPL. V. T.S. REED PROPS. ................................................ 309 VII. WENSKE V. EALY .............................................................................. 314 VIII. HIGH MOUNT EXPL. & PROD. LLC V. HARRISON INTERESTS, LTD. .. 320 IX. RING ENERGY, INC. V. TREY RES., INC. ............................................ 323 X. ARUBA PETROLEUM, INC. V. PARR. .................................................. 327 XI. REED V. MALTSBERGER ................................................................... 331 XII. TEXAS OUTFITTERS LTD. V. NICHOLSON ........................................... 334 XIII. CHIEFTAN EXPL. CO. V. GASTAR EXPL., INC. & CUBIC ASSETS ........ 336 XIV. XTO ENERGY V. GOODWIN .............................................................. 339 XV. BOERSCHIG V. TRANS-PECOS PIPELINE ........................................... 344
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DENBURY GREEN PIPELINE-TEXAS, LLC V. TEXAS RICE LAND PARTNERS, LTD.1
On January 6, 2017, the Supreme Court of Texas reversed the judgment of the Beaumont Court of Appeals (Ninth District) and reinstated the judgment of the trial court.2 The court held that because the summary judgment evidence produced by Denbury Green Pipeline-Texas, LLC † B.S. (Geology) and M.S. (Geophysics), Wright State University; Ph.D., Texas A&M University (Petroleum Seismology); J.D., University of Oklahoma. The author wishes to thank Aaron Epstein, Pierre Grosdidier, Donald Jackson, Kyle Kemp, Cameron Shepherd, and Rachel Schiller for their assistance with this paper. © 2017 Christopher Kulander. All rights reserved. 1. Denbury Green Pipeline-Tex., LLC v. Tex. Rice Land Partners, Ltd., 510 S.W.3d 909 (Tex. 2017). 2. Id. at 911.
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