Texas--Oil & Gas

摘要

As reported in Vol. XXVI, No. 2 (2009) of this Newsletter, the Texas Supreme Court in early 2009 decided the companion cases of Exxon Corp. v. Emerald Oil & Gas Co., L.C., No. 05-1076,52 Tex. Sup. Ct. J. 467, 2009 WL 795668 (Mar. 27, 2009) (not reported), superseded by Exxon Corp. v. Emerald Oil & Gas Co., L.C., No. 05-0729, 52 Tex. Sup. Ct. J. 462, 2009 WL 795760 (Mar. 27,2009) (not reported). The cases involved claims by mineral owners and their lessees in the O'Connor Field in Refugio County, Texas, that Exxon, the prior lessee that had developed the field, had damaged them by deliberately sabotaging wellbores in the process of plugging its wells and by filing false plugging reports.