What are “Drilling Operations”?
By EsqSocial Corporation 15/04/21
As Humpty Dumpty would have said to Alice if he were Justice Dumpty of the Texas Supreme Court, the term means whatever the parties to an oil and gas lease say it means, neither more nor less. In Sundown Energy LP, et al. v. HJSA No. 3, Ltd. P’ship the definition of “drilling operations,” meant that activities other than spudding-in new wells were sufficient to satisfy a continuous operations clause....
By: Gray Reed