Callon (Permian)  LLC & Callon Petroleum Operating Company, now a subsidiary of Apache, Court of Appeals; Eighths District of Texas

Represented Callon (now Apache) in a title dispute where plaintiffs were claiming that they owned certain overriding royalty interests in the Delaware Basin based on correction deeds that they had filed long after the interests had been transferred. Callon had purchased a portion of these valuable oil and gas interests prior to the correction deeds being filed. Following an appeal in the El Paso Court of Appeals, the firm secured a total win for Callon, reversing the trial court’s judgment in favor of the plaintiffs and confirming Callon’s full ownership of the interests in dispute.

Type of Case: Title Disputes, Appellate Litigation

Trinity Royalty Partners, LP v De Midland III, LLC & Pioneer Natural Resources USA, Inc., in the 385th Judicial District Court, Midland County, Texas

Represented non-operator Trinity Royalty Partners in lawsuit involving a complex title dispute and over the operator's development of depth-severed working interest. Filed suit to confirm Trinity's ownership of additional working interest that operator refused to recognize. Also filed claims over operator's development of depth-severed working interests. Case is ongoing. 

Type of Case: JOA Disputes, Title Disputes

Marathon Oil Permian, 5th Judicial District Court, Lea County, New Mexico

Represented Marathon Oil Permian in defending a title lawsuit related to an unrecorded overriding royalty interest assignment. Plaintiff alleged that the Defendants' predecessor had reserved an override in certain leases through an unrecorded letter agreement. After the parties filed cross motions for summary judgment, the parties entered a confidential settlement.

Type of Case: Title Dispute