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Texas Oil & Gas Lease Feud Turns On Meaning Of And
Law360 (January 28, 2021, 4:37 PM EST) The El Paso appellate court debated Thursday whether the use of and in describing two noncontiguous sections of land covered by Delaware Basin oil and gas leases combined them into one tract and precluded mineral owners from re-assigning the leases for one section after their terms expired.
Oil and gas producer Tier 1 Resources Partners and 13 mineral owners have asked the Eighth Court of Appeals to reverse a Reeves County District Court s February 2020 finding that a prior operator, Delaware Basin Resources LLC, still holds valid leases to two sections of land because its leases only required it to begin.