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You Sold Your Interest in the Contract Area. Are You Still Liable?


by Patton Boggs LLP View Firm Credentials
Washington Office

April 3, 2008

Previously published on February 2008

Uncertain about liabilities under your operating agreement? You should be. The decision by the Texas Supreme Court in Seagull Energy v. Eland Energy, (Tex. 2006) continues to resonate through the industry. In essence, it held that a working interest owner continues to be liable under the operating agreement even after it no longer owns an interest in the Contract Area.


 

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