There are also some older leases and older Texas cases where the same thing occurred and exists. And there is a very well known and discussed (among oil and gas lawyers) set of recent cases by our Texas Supreme Court involving Exxon in South Texas, where the lessors refused to renegotiate or extend a set of old leases with some of those similar terms, and in retaliation, Exxon intentionally destroyed or damaged the drainhole piping in the long time producing wells before it left the leases, so that the new lessee who was coming in could not use the existing wellbores. Texas Supreme Court in the past 5-10 years has written several opinions on various facets of those cases.
I wonder what ever happened here? It's too bad threads like this don't have the conclusion posted.