Oil And Gas Litigation And Regulatory Counsel
We represent energy companies, independents, midstream operators, and mineral and royalty owners in high-stakes disputes and commission matters across Texas and North America.
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Decades Of Courtroom And Commission Experience
Law Oil represents major integrated energy companies, independent operators, midstream entities, and mineral and royalty owners in high-stakes disputes ranging from single-property ownership matters to multi-county litigation and nationwide class actions. Although the firm is relatively new to the legal services market, its attorneys bring decades of combined experience before courts and regulatory agencies on complex issues involving unconventional resource development across Texas and North America, including the Permian Basin, Eagle Ford, Haynesville, and Bakken plays.
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The practice regularly engages with the Texas Railroad Commission (RRC), the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ), the North Dakota Industrial Commission (which regulates oil and gas) and the Colorado Department of Natural Resources, Oklahoma Corporation Commission, New Mexico Department of Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources, Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality, municipalities, special districts, and water authorities.
Our lawyers have extensive experience in litigation involving
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Mineral rights and royalty disputes
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Joint operating and accounting agreements
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Surface use and damage claims
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Groundwater and produced-water matters
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Easements, pipelines, and gathering system take-out
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Pooling and unitization, including allegations of unfair pooling
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Oil and gas lease agreements, including termination and loss of rights
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Royalty underpayment, valuation, and pricing disputes
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Brine disposal and induced seismicity claims
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Environmental liability, emissions, and remediation
Trade Secrets And Unfair Competition Backed By Deep Technical Expertise
The firm also advises on trade secret protection, non-competition agreements, and unfair competition issues affecting oil production and transportation technologies.Our oil and gas and environmental attorneys excel at translating complex technical evidence into clear, persuasive arguments. With backgrounds that span geology and geophysics, petrophysics and logging analysis, drilling and well completion, field development and production engineering, pipeline and gas plant operations, rock mechanics, and hydrology, we ensure that judges, juries, regulators, and counterparties understand the facts that drive outcomes.
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New Mexico
Colorado
Oklahoma
Alaska
Utah
Louisiana
Wyoming
California
Texas
North Dakota