One of the key lessons in Fasken Oil, as in all of the Texas Supreme Court’s royalty opinions, is that producers and royalty owners should strive to ensure that their royalty agreements plainly say exactly what they intend for them to mean.
The National Environmental Policy Act is continuing to undergo a period of structural recalibration. A combination of judicial decisions, executive policy direction and proposed legislation reflects a sustained effort to shorten permitting timelines for energy and infrastructure projects while preserving NEPA's core function as a procedural environmental review statute.
GableGotwals is pleased to announce that Travis Lee has joined the Firm’s Tulsa office as an Associate.
GableGotwals advised Integrated Utility Services (IUS) in its acquisition of Paragon Industries, a long-standing Oklahoma-based manufacturer of high‑quality steel pipe products.
The transaction provides the capital, operational expertise, and industry relationships necessary to restart operations, retain and create jobs, and re-establish Paragon as a leading supplier of high-quality steel pipe products to energy, utility, infrastructure, and industrial customers throughout North America.
The Department of Justice has renamed its Environment and Natural Resources Division (ENRD) the Energy and Natural Resources Division. The rename is not just a branding exercise. It aligns DOJ’s environmental and natural resources litigation shop with the Administration’s broader energy program.
GableGotwals is pleased to announce the return of Motahareh H. Nickel to the Firm's Oklahoma City office, where she will serve as Of Counsel.
On May 6, Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt signed H.B. 1371, enacting the most significant amendments to the state's Production Revenue Standards Act, or PRSA, since its adoption in 1980.
