Oil & Gas Mineral Interest Disputes
We represent Mineral Interest Owners in Oklahoma and Texas
If you own mineral interests, you have a legal right to be paid properly for your share of the oil and gas produced. Energy companies routinely reduce royalties that belong to mineral interest owners by taking improper deductions, not paying interest on late payments, or otherwise violating their contractual and/or statutory obligations to mineral interest owners. At Baldwin Law, we help mineral interest owners recover what they are owed.
During her tenure at her prior firm, Lisa Baldwin worked alongside talented colleagues for over a decade representing working interest and royalty interest owners in individual and class action disputes against oil and gas producers, recovering hundreds of millions of dollars in unpaid and underpaid royalties. She worked with leading experts in petroleum engineering and economic damages modeling, reviewed tens of thousands of oil and gas leases, obtained class certification in state and federal courts in Oklahoma, and litigated cases from initial investigation through trial and appeal.
Lisa was instrumental in establishing key rulings for Oklahoma royalty owners in Pummill v. Hancock Exploration, LLC — precedent-setting decisions that continue to protect mineral interest owners across the State of Oklahoma.
At Baldwin Law, we represent mineral interest owners in a wide range of disputes, including:
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Post-production cost disputes (deductions from royalties for gathering, processing, transportation, compression, dehydration, treating, and marketing
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Failure to pay royalties on gas used off the lease as fuel in gas gathering and processing plants
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Lease interpretation, negotiation, and breach of contract claims
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Recovery of interest on late royalty payments required by statute.