Oil, Gas, & Energy

Prichard Bevis handles a wide variety of business disputes with a primary emphasis in commercial litigation, transactions and appeals in the oil, gas and energy sector. He has successfully represented exploration and production companies, mineral and royalty owners, surface owners, national banks and defrauded oil and gas investors.

Areas of Practice

Oil & Gas Litigation
Mineral Leasing and Deeds
Easements
Lease Termination
Farmout Agreements
Operating Agreements
Royalties and Bonuses
Title Disputes
Deed Construction
Executive Rights
Energy Loans

Delay Rentals
Self-Development Mineral Rights
Joint Ventures
Condemnation
Mineral Severance
Mineral Reservation
Surface Damages
Salt Water Disposal Wells
Overriding Royalties
Restrictive Covenants Against Mineral Development

Representative Experience

Represented eighteen surface owners in oil and gas litigation in the Texas Supreme Court involving mineral reservation, the conveyance of the executive rights, and the duty of the mineral executive rights holders to the non-executive mineral rights owners including claims of failure to lease, self-dealing by favoring the surface estate, the right of the non-executive mineral owners to self-develop the mineral estate, and a demand for deed reformation due to mutual mistake.
Represented the heirs of a mineral owner against a Fortune 500 energy company involving the strip-and-gore doctrine.
Represented a farmor in a dispute with the mineral owner and various vendors in a case involving a farmee who failed to drill a well as required by the farmout agreement.
Represented twenty investors in oil and gas fraud case in which total investments exceeded $6 million.
Represented clients in more than one hundred appeals in Texas appellate courts, including the representation of a developer in a $4 million lawsuit against an international real estate firm in a dispute involving the interpretation of reciprocal easements and the terms of a purchase and sale agreement.