Oil & Gas/Energy Litigation
Kelly Hart’s Oil & Gas/Energy attorneys represent oil and gas operators and producers, pipeline companies, landowners and royalty owners in all types of oil and gas/energy related litigation, including:
- disputes concerning operating agreements and development of producing properties between working interest owners
- pooling disputes, including bad faith pooling and Mineral Interest Pooling Act claims
- royalty disputes of all types, including class actions and audit disputes
- disputes concerning seismic trespass and the misappropriation of technical secrets and other confidential information
- disputes concerning inverse condemnation of mineral rights by a governmental entity
- disputes concerning the denial or revocation of municipal drilling permits
- lease termination disputes
- adverse possession claims affecting mineral interests and prescriptive easements
- disputes concerning master service agreements and shifting of liabilities under anti-indemnity legislation
- trespass claims, including subsurface and seismic trespass
- surface damage and environmental disputes, including claims of damage from hydraulic fracture stimulation and defense against Environmental Protection Agency suits and actions
- alleged nuisance claims related to oil and gas operations
- defense of oil and gas related personal injury claims
- tax suits affecting oil and gas interests
