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  • Read NARO Texas Chapter President Clinton Butler’s takeaways from the 2023 conference

    More than 300 mineral and royalty owners from across the state of Texas attended last week’s Annual Texas and New Mexico Conference hosted by the National Association of Royalty Owners-Texas (NARO-TX) at the Grand Hyatt in San Antonio.
    Clinton Butler, Chair of Langley & Banack, Inc.’s Oil, Gas & Energy practice group, was re-election as President of the Texas Chapter and will lead for another one-year term. He offered these takeaways from the 2023 conference.

  • The Future of the Oil and Gas Industry

    A CLOUDY CRYSTAL BALL A few weeks ago, I was sitting in my conference room with a client, his wife, and their son who was in his twenties.  We were…

  • Legal Ownership Interests of Oil and Gas

    Oil and gas interests are interests in real property and thereby have the same attributes as other real property such as a home or a ranch. Although the ownership of…

  • Texas Oil & Gas Law: The Basics

    Is oil and gas real or personal property?  It’s a question with a complex answer. While in the ground, oil and gas are classified as real property, i.e., oil and…