Last week, the Pennsylvania Board of Game Commissioners announced it had cut two different deals with Pennsylvania General Energy (PGE). Both deals involve land swaps with the prospect of new shale drilling by PGE on the way in both Lycoming County and Sullivan County. The Game Commission’s remit is “to protect, propagate, manage and preserve…
Read More...In January, Ohio House Bill (HB) 507 became law with the signature of Gov. Mike DeWine (see OH Gov. Signs Bill Expanding Drilling in State Parks, NatGas “Green”). The new law allows shale drilling under (but not on top of) Ohio state-owned land, including state parks. HB 507 encourages (pushes for) more drilling under state-owned…
Read More...Two Marshall County, WV landowners with the same last name (obviously related) sued Southwestern Energy (SWN), accusing the company of “well bashing,” in March of this year (see WV Mineral Owners’ Lawsuit Accuses Southwestern of ‘Well Bashing’). The landowners seek to have the lawsuit certified as a class action. Well bashing happens when drilling a…
Read More...Yesterday we told you about a new $2 billion hydrogen project coming to West Virginia (see $2B Hydrogen Project Announces for WV – FidelisH2 in Mason Co.). Fidelis New Energy announced it had selected Mason County for a “net-zero” hydrogen production facility and low carbon microgrid, which it has dubbed The Mountaineer GigaSystem. The Fidelis…
Read More...Last week MDN told you that WhiteHawk Energy, headquartered in Philadelphia with ownership of mineral and royalty interests for 850,000 gross unit acres and over 2,500 producing horizontal shale wells between the Marcellus and the Haynesville, had proposed marriage to PHX Minerals, based in Fort Worth, Texas, owner of 75,000 leased mineral acres principally located…
Read More...At the end of May, WhiteHawk Energy, headquartered in Philadelphia with ownership of mineral and royalty interests for 850,000 gross unit acres and over 2,500 producing horizontal shale wells between the Marcellus and the Haynesville, sent a letter to the board and management of PHX Minerals, based in Fort Worth, Texas, owner of 75,000 leased…
Read More...For years we’ve railed against what we consider the theft of royalties and bonus payments by the state of Pennsylvania from landowners with creeks and rivers running through their leased (for shale drilling) property. The Pennsylvania Dept. of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) claims that under a centuries-old law, the state of PA “owns” the…
Read More...In 2021, U.S. District Judge Lee H. Rosenthal, Chief Judge for the Southern District of Texas, approved deals for Chesapeake Energy to pay $6.25 million to class members of the three royalty lawsuits brought by Pennsylvania landowners (roughly 15,000 class members) and another $2.9 million to the lawyers involved (see Texas Judge OKs Chesapeake Royalty…
Read More...Cindy Adams Dunn has been, and continues to be, a major disappointment as Secretary of the Dept. of Conservation and… Continue reading The post PA DCNR Sec. Dunn’s Anti-Gas Bias Evident for All to See first appeared on Marcellus Drilling News. This post appeared first on Marcellus Drilling News.
Read More...Yeah, you read the headline correctly. Encino Energy offered the State of Ohio $1.8 BILLION (estimated) to drill for natural… Continue reading The post Encino Offered OH $1.8B Deal to Drill Under Salt Fork State Park first appeared on Marcellus Drilling News. This post appeared first on Marcellus Drilling News.
Read More...The Pennsylvania Game Commission (PGC) owns and manages more than 1.5 million acres of state game lands throughout the Commonwealth…. Continue reading The post PA Generates Record $370M from Game Land Leases & Drilling first appeared on Marcellus Drilling News. This post appeared first on Marcellus Drilling News.
Read More...In a case initially filed last summer in Ohio, a Belmont County mineral rights owner alleges that Rice Drilling (now… Continue reading The post OH Lawsuit Filed Against Utica Fracker Accuses Subsurface Trespass first appeared on Marcellus Drilling News. This post appeared first on Marcellus Drilling News.
Read More...On February 15, 2023, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania agreed to hear the case Dressler Family, LP v. PennEnergy Resources,… Continue reading The post PA Supreme Court to Address Royalty Post-Production Deduction Issue first appeared on Marcellus Drilling News. This post appeared first on Marcellus Drilling News.
Read More...We have a second article today dealing with post-production deductions in Pennsylvania oil and gas leases. Although this is an… Continue reading The post Using PA “Free Gas” Clause in Leases to Refute Royalty Deductions first appeared on Marcellus Drilling News. This post appeared first on Marcellus Drilling News.
Read More...Last April, MDN introduced readers to the developing issue of landowners being approached to lease “pore space” rights (see M-U… Continue reading The post WV Bill Passes Expanding DNR Power to Lease State-Owned Pore Space first appeared on Marcellus Drilling News. This post appeared first on Marcellus Drilling News.
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