Stuart C. Hollimon
Partner
stuarthollimon@andrewskurth.com

600 Travis
Suite 4200
Houston TX 77002
P: 713.220.4033
F: 713.238.7212

1717 Main Street
Suite 3700
Dallas TX 75201
P: 214.659.4400

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Stuart is a former Chairman of the Oil, Gas and Mineral Law Section of the State Bar of Texas. His practice is devoted exclusively to oil and gas litigation and transactions and focuses primarily on the upstream and midstream segments of the industry. Stuart routinely represents producers, processors and pipelines in a wide range of matters, including royalty litigation, lease termination cases, disputes arising under operating agreements, gas contract litigation, implied covenant litigation and disputes arising under gas purchase contracts and gas processing agreements. He has been lead counsel in major energy litigation in state and federal courts throughout Texas, and has extensive arbitration experience as well. In addition, Stuart regularly represents producer clients in acquisitions of producing properties.

Representative Experience

Some of Stuart’s representative litigation and transactions include the following matters:

• Obtained favorable decision in the landmark oil and gas case of Sun Exploration and Production Company v. Jackson establishing that there is no implied obligation to explore an oil and gas lease in Texas.
• In 2007, obtained "take nothing" defense decision for major producer in arbitration relating to client's alleged failure to reassign certian federal leases situated in the Deepwater Region of the Gulf of Mexico.
• In 2007, represented Sellers in divestment of $48 million of producing properties in the Overtion Field in Texas.
• In 2006, defeated attempt to enjoin major oil company client from drilling Barnett Shale Prospect on Comanche Peak Ranch.
• In 2006, represented Houston-based producer in $140 million acquisition of producing properties situated in Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi.
• In 2005, defended independent producer in South Texas litigation for royalty on pooled unit production.
• In 2005, obtained unanimous arbitration award for a Houston-based producer in a multimillion dollar voting-rights dispute under an operating agreement covering a producing field located offshore West Africa.
• In 2005, represented producers in four separate acquisitions of producing properties having total value of $700 million.
• In 2004, defended a large independent producer in West Texas litigation alleging that the client was responsible for the royalty burdening the client’s non-consenting working interest in a producing well.
• In 2004, obtained favorable arbitration award for Houston-based producer in a $3.2 million dispute concerning whether a title defect created by the termination of a Term Assignment had been cured by the seller’s tender of a farmout agreement covering the acreage.
• Defended independent producer in South Texas litigation against claims of trespass, field-wide drainage, failure to reasonably develop the lease and failure to pay market value gas royalty.

Professional / Civic Affiliations

Member

• State Bar of Texas
  • Oil, Gas and Mineral Law Section
• Houston Bar Association
  • Energy Law Section
• Dallas Bar Association
  • Energy Law Section
• American Bar Association

Honors

• Named "Top Notch Lawyer" (Oil and Gas) by Texas Lawyer in 2007.
• Named Texas Super Lawyer (Oil and Gas) 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008 
• Chairman, Oil, Gas and Mineral Law Section, State Bar of Texas (1990-1991)

Headline News

• Thirty-Five Andrews Kurth Partners Named in Texas Super Lawyers 2008 (October 3, 2008)
• Stuart Hollimon Joins Andrews Kurth (July 21, 2005)

Industries

• Energy
• Energy Litigation
• Energy Transactions
• Oil and Gas Natural Resources

Practice Areas

• Energy
• Litigation

Education

• JD, 1975, Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law, Southwestern Law Journal, Articles Editor
• BA, 1972, cum laude, Saint Olaf College

Admitted

• Texas 1975
  US District Courts for the Northern, Southern and Western Districts of Texas
  US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit