Oklahoma - Oil & Gas

摘要

In Whisenant v. Strat Land Exploration Co., No. 115,660, slip op. (Okla. Civ. App. Apr. 10,2018), the plaintiff, as a royalty owner in a gas well in Beaver County, Oklahoma, brought a class action composed of 88 wells located in western Oklahoma operated by Strat Land Exploration Co. (Strat Land), claiming as common questions (1) whether the raw gas was in marketable condition at the meter run for the gathering line inlet, (2) whether Strat Land deducted amounts to place the gas in marketable condition before paying royalty to the royalty owners, (3) whether Strat Land paid royalty to the royalty owners for all gas constituents, and (4) whether Strat Land's uniform practice of paying royalties based on the net rather than the gross gas contract value constituted a breach of its lease obligations to the royalty owners.