The Mineral Owners’ Rights to Use the Surface Sample Clauses

The Mineral Owners’ Rights to Use the Surface. Typically the granting clause of the oil and gas lease contains a broad grant of specific activities that the mineral lessee is authorized to conduct. Limitations may be placed on the mineral lessee’s right to use the surface of the leased premises by specific contractual terms. In addition to any contractual limitations that may be placed on the lessee’s activities, case law requires that the lessee must not use more land than is reasonably necessary to conduct its exploration and production activities, and the lessee must not be negligent in its use of the surface.32 Reasonable use includes the right to ingress and egress upon the land for exploration and production of oil and gas.33 Reasonable use further includes the right for the mineral estate owner to select the timing of drilling operations.34 Further, the mineral owner must not be negligent in its use of the surface. Absent some express contractual provision, the surface owner has no right to recover from the mineral lessee for surface damage unless the surface owner can prove either specific acts of negligence or that more of the land was used by the lessee than was reasonably necessary. In addition, the mineral lessee must exercise its rights to use the surface of the land with due regard to the existing rights and uses of the surface 29 Xxxxxxx v. State, 703 S.W.2d 187 (Tex. 1986). 30 Id. 31 Id. 32 Xxxxxx x. Xxxxxx, 176 S.W.2d 302, 305 (Tex. 1943).
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