Historically, the oil and gas business has been a major element of commerce in Texas. New technology, as demonstrated in the “Barnett Shale Play,” combined with a world wide increase in energy demand, has brought a surge of natural gas development along with the attendant wealth and inevitable issues among the players. The intricate interplay among energy companies (global and local), mineral interest owners and surface owners brings opportunities for significant wealth to all participants and raises the stakes if transactions and disputes are not concluded quickly and intelligently.
Whitaker Chalk offers the expertise and experience to meet the complex challenges of new wealth and the many points of potential friction among stakeholders from lease acquisition to delivery of product to the market. Our attorneys have the legal and practical business experience, and the technical backgrounds to provide comprehensive solutions that take into consideration the entire spread of concerns from the environmental to the aesthetic, from negotiating the lease to the remediation of surface damage, from title opinions to estate planning and tax planning to patenting oilfield and drilling inventions and innovations.
Our attorneys have decades of experience in oil and gas property transactions and disputes, as well as experience as executive level managers of energy companies and the capitalization of international petroleum ventures. We deliver cost-effective title opinions, lease and easement negotiations, energy transportation issues solutions, estate planning and tax planning to minimize local, state and federal taxes. And when issues cannot be resolved except through litigation or alternative dispute resolution, we have experienced attorneys to handle cases from title issues to operator liability.
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