Supreme Court of Texas
ANADARKO PETROLEUM CORP. v. THOMPSON, 01-0261
A well that is capable of production sustains a gas mining lease, even where actual production ceases longer than sixty days, thus such cessations did not terminate the lease.
Appellate Information
- Argued 03/06/2002
- Decided 07/03/2002
- Published 07/03/2002
Judges
- Justice BAKER delivered the opinion of the Court.
Court
- Supreme Court of Texas
Counsel
- For Appellant:
- Eric Anthony Hillerman,Harlow Sprouse, Charles Wade Miller, Sprouse Smith & Rowley, Amarillo, J. Kyle McClain, Anadarko Petroleum Corp., David M. Gunn, Hogan Dubose & Townsend, L.L.P., Houston, for Petitioner.
- For Appellees:
- Joe L. Lovell, Lovell Lovell & Newsom, Amarillo, Donald M. Hunt, Mullin Hoard Brown Langston Carr Hunt & Joy LLP, Lubbock, J.R. Lovell, Lovell & Lyle, Dumas, for Respondents.