Oil & Gas Law
Cotten Schmidt & Abbott provides legal services and advice to business organizations and individual property owners concerning oil-and-gas related matters including drafting and negotiating mineral leases, handling royalty disputes, and surface-damage claims arising from drilling and production operations. We also provide legal counsel and advice to landowners faced with an eminent domain action brought by a pipeline company seeking an easement through land. The firm’s legal services include representation of landowners at eminent domain Special Commissioners’ Hearings and the appeal of Special Commissioners’ awards.
Cotten Schmidt & Abbott also offers legal representation to businesses and landowners in negotiating and drafting highly technical oil-and-gas leases with a focus on not only bonus and royalty payments, but also surface-estate owner’s rights including the location of drilling-pad sites, flow line placement, road access, surface- water use, and noise issues.
Our attorneys additionally provide legal advice to landowners concerning estate-planning problems arising from oil-and-gas leases.
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