SMNR: Oil & Gas: Current Issues

Semester: Fall 2014
Course ID: 397S
Credit Hours: 3
Unique: 30010

Course Information

Course Type: Seminar
Grading Method: Pass/Fail Allowed (JD only)

Registration Information

Upperclass-only elective

Meeting Times

Day	Time	Location
MON	3:45 - 5:35 pm	JON 6.206

Evaluation Method

Type	Date	Time	Location
Paper

Description

As the name of the seminar indicates, we will focus on current issues in oil and gas law. These include, but are not limited to: Fracking litigation and regulation in Texas and throughout the country; the pros and cons of the highly controversial TransCanada Keystone Pipeline,including the common carrier issue; the explosion of litigation over mineral titles, including especially construction of grants and reservations in deeds executed when it was almost universally assumed that the lease royalty would always be 1/8; Railroad Commission decisions involving the allocation doctrine and grants of forced pooling against unleased tracts; interpretation of horizontal severance clauses in leases and lease assignments; litigation involving whether contracts to lease or assign a lease are or are not binding; modifications of the accommodation doctrine, and other issues that may arise during the course of the semester.

Textbooks ( * denotes required )

Cases & Masterials on Oil and Gas Law *

Lowe, Anderson, Smith, Pierce & Kulander

West , edition: 6th
ISBN: 978-0-314-28516-4

Forms Manual to Accompany Cases & Materials on Oil & Gas Law *

Lowe, Anderson, Smith & Pierce

West , edition: latest

Instructors

Smith, Ernest E. III