Wick Phillips achieves wins for our individual and company clients in high-stakes oil and gas disputes. We strive to avoid litigation and seek peaceable resolution of disputes when possible. But when litigation is the only recourse, we offer years of experience in handling complex oil and gas litigation issues through trial and appeal.
Our experience includes the representation of royalty owners in disputes concerning royalty payment; exploration and production companies in contractual disputes, and energy service companies in all aspects of their business throughout Texas and other states.
Matters handled by the firm include disputes involving:
- Oil and gas leases, pricing, cost deductions, and termination
- Joint operating agreements, working interests, and lease operating costs
- Overriding royalties and non-participating royalties
- Gas purchase agreements (NAESB contracts)
- Surface agreements and surface damages
- Purchase and sale agreements
- Oilfield service companies
Case highlights include:
- Representation of a publicly-traded royalty trust in a dispute regarding allocation of costs
- Ongoing representation of royalty owners in disputes with lessees and operators concerning the deduction of costs from royalties and other issues of underpayment and non-payment of royalties, working interest owners in disputes over joint operating agreements, and non-participating royalty interest owners in disputes concerning fixed versus floating royalties
- Representation of royalty owners in Chesapeake Exploration, L.L.C. v. Hyder, 483 S.W.3d 870 (Tex.2016)
- Representation of royalty owners in a class action dispute over pricing and royalty calculation against Devon Energy involving substantial Barnett Shale acreage
- Representation of a drilling contractor in a dispute concerning drilling contracts for exploration in the Marcellus Shale
- Representation of a seismic contractor in numerous contract disputes and other matters nationwide.
- Representation of an oil and gas exploration company in more than twelve separate cases filed in six different counties with over 100 separate plaintiffs arising out of the largest wildfire in Texas history. In re Cano Petroleum Wildfire Litigation, No. 07-0593 (Tex. MDL 2008).
In addition to Dallas and Austin, Wick Phillips maintains an office in Fort Worth, in the center of the Barnett Shale and in close proximity to the Permian Basin and other oil and gas producing regions of Texas.
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