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October 25, 2016

Gearing up for an intra-industry fight: Texas Mineral Owners vs. oil and gas industry

What’s triggering the beef between these 2 groups? Whether companies can drill horizontal wells that reach across different lease lines

From the Texas Mineral Owners’ side: Mineral Leases often prohibit pooling. Pooling is seen as:

tramples property rights
upends negotiated contracts

From the oil and gas side: companies have histroically pooled adjoining leases

San Antonio Express News | Fight brewing between Texas mineral owners, oil and gas industry