The Texas Lawbook

11 hours ago | texaslawbook.net | Janet Elliott

The Texas Supreme Court on Friday settled a first-of-its-kind dispute over ownership of “produced water,” ruling in favor of the drilling operator over the surface estate holder in a Reeves County case. “We hold that a deed or lease using typical language to convey oil-and-gas rights, though not expressly addressing produced water, includes the substance as part of the conveyance whether the parties knew of its prospective value or not.

1 week ago | texaslawbook.net | Alexa Shrake |Michelle Casady

BIG SPRING — During a daylong hearing in Martin County Friday, a judge was told Pioneer Natural Resources had “fabricated” the basis for its lawsuit seeking $534 million in damages from a smaller competitor that it accused of interfering with its West Texas leases. Pioneer, which was acquired last year by Houston energy giant ExxonMobil, filed suit against Pony in 2021.

1 week ago | texaslawbook.net | Janet Elliott

The Austrian manufacturer of an allegedly defective airplane engine cannot be sued in Texas by a woman who was severely injured in a small plane crash at an airport in Addison, the Texas Supreme Court said Friday. The court, in a unanimous opinion, dismissed the lawsuit against BRP-Rotax GmbH & Co. KG filed by Sheema Shaik and her husband, who witnessed the crash. It found that Texas courts have no specific personal jurisdiction over Rotax. Writing for the court, Justice Evan A.

1 week ago | texaslawbook.net | Michelle Casady

Some of the families of those who died in Boeing 737 MAX crashes have asked U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor to remove a lawsuit against The Boeing Company from the U.S. Department of Justice’s hands and instead appoint a “disinterested” special prosecutor “who will pursue justice without regard to institutional conflicts.” The families’ request was lodged Wednesday in the criminal fraud case the government brought against Boeing in January 2021 in the wake of two plane crashes in 2018 and...

1 week ago | texaslawbook.net | Allen Pusey

In what they described as a “transformative transaction” to strengthen Canadian “economic resilience,” Calgary-based Keyera Corp announced Tuesday that it has agreed to acquire virtually all Canadian NGL assets owned by Plains All American Pipeline and its parent company, Plains GP Holdings, for $3.75 billion (CD$5.15 billion). Plains AA will retain NGL assets in the U.S. and all its crude oil assets in Canada.