Colorado - Oil & Gas

摘要

Federal District Court Finds Union Pacific's Reservation of the Right to Use So Much of Land as May Be "Convenient or Necessary" Allows Use Convenient to the Mineral Lessee In A-W Land Co. v. Anadarko E&P Co., No. l:09-cv-02293, 2015 WL 4464414 (D. Colo. July 22, 2015), the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado interpreted language in deeds from Union Pacific Railroad Company (Union Pacific) reserving oil, coal, and other minerals and certain rights to use the surface to mine and remove oil, coal, or other minerals. The court was interpreting Colorado law in this ongoing case.