May 24, 2023 | Drill Deeper Blog
In Louisiana, a person can acquire ownership of immovable property (generally, land and its component parts) by simply possessing the property for a period of time. This is known as “acquisitive prescription.” The periods of time for Louisiana’s acquisitive... 
Sep 27, 2021 | Drill Deeper Blog
The Louisiana Supreme Court recently held that no cause of action exists for damages arising under verbal promises to obtain additional loan security when those promises were not contained in any written loan documentation, finding the verbal promises to be...Dec 27, 2016 | Drill Deeper Blog
Can a landowner in Louisiana whose land is burdened by a mineral servitude sell the land and reserve the reversionary mineral rights or sell the reversionary rights to another? Although almost no jurisprudence addresses these issues, the Louisiana Third Circuit did...Jun 30, 2016 | Drill Deeper Blog
By a vote of 4-3 on Friday, June 17, 2016, the Louisiana Supreme Court denied writs in reviewing the First Circuit’s decision upholding the Commissioner of Conservation’s permit to Helis Oil & Gas Company, LLC to drill an oil and gas well in St. Tammy Parish over...Jan 27, 2016 | Drill Deeper Blog
On December 8, 2015, the Louisiana Supreme Court tossed out the 3rd Circuit’s shocking award in Hayes Fund for First United Methodist Church of Welsh, LLC v. Kerr-McGee Rocky Mountain, LLC. Much to the dismay of many of us in the oil and gas community, the 3rd Circuit...