Source: https://www.ryanclinton.org/oil-gas-and-energy-appeals/
Timestamp: 2019-04-22 04:41:35+00:00

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Ryan Clinton has handled a wide variety of oil, gas, and energy-law appeals.
Since returning to private practice in 2008 after a six-year stint as an Assistant Solicitor General for the State of Texas, Ryan Clinton has practiced appellate law primarily in the oil, gas, and energy arena. Ryan and his colleagues at Davis, Gerald & Cremer have developed a deep understanding of the novel and complex legal challenges facing the Texas oil-and-gas industry, and Ryan's appellate experience continues to benefit the firm and its energy clients. Ryan has represented clients in a wide variety of oil, gas, and energy disputes on subjects including retained-acreage clauses, lease-termination claims, farmout agreements, surface-estate usage, trespass, executive rights, royalty disputes, property damage, personal injury, and arbitration appeals.
Victories in two retained-acreage-clause cases in the Texas Supreme Court. Endeavor Energy Resources, L.P. v. Discovery Operating, Inc., 554 S.W.3d 586 (Tex. 2018); XOG Operating, LLC v. Chesapeake Exploration Ltd. P’ship, 554 S.W.3d 607 (Tex. 2018).
The vacatur of a $125,000,000.00 artibration award based on “evident partiality.” Tenaska Energy, Inc. v. Ponderosa Pine Energy LLC, 437 S.W.3d 518 (Tex. 2014).
The reversal of a multi-million dollar award and rendition of a take-nothing judgment in a lease-termination dispute involving a farmout agreement. Clayton Williams Energy, Inc. v. BMT O&G TX, L.P., 473 S.W.3d 341 (Tex. App.--El Paso 2015, pet. denied).
The reversal of a multi-million dollar award and rendition of a take-nothing judgment in a gas-royalties dispute potentially affecting hundreds of millions of dollars in royalties. Occidental Permian Ltd. v. Helen Jones Foundation, 333 S.W.3d 392 (Tex. App.—Amarillo 2011, pet. denied).
The End of the Leasehold as We Know It: Termination, Forfeiture, & Repudiation, State Bar of Texas, Oil and Gas Disputes, January 11, 2019.
To Drill or Not to Drill: The Repudiation Doctrine, State Bar of Texas, Advanced Oil, Gas & Energy Resources Law CLE, September 2017.
Revisiting an Old Friend: Retained-Acreage Clauses in Oil-and-Gas Contracts, State Bar of Texas, 34th Annual Advanced Oil, Gas & Energy Resources Law CLE, September 2016.
Oil & Gas Damages, State Bar of Texas, 7th Annual Damages in Civil Litigation CLE, February 2015.
Ryan Clinton can be reached by e-mail at rdclinton@dgclaw.com or by phone at 512.493.9600.
On March 22, 2018, the highly respected and influential Texas Oil and Gas Association filed amicus briefs supporting Davis, Gerald & Cremer's clients in two high-profile Texas appeals currently pending before the Texas Supreme Court.
On January 9, 2018, Ryan Clinton presented oral argument to the Texas Supreme Court in the case of XOG Operating, LLC v. Chesapeake Exploration Ltd. P’ship, Cause No. 15-0935.

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