Are Ohio’s oil and gas severance taxes too low?

In light of a new bill that could expand oil and gas drilling in Ohio state parks, many are questioning whether Ohio tax rates need to be increased. The post Are Ohio’s oil and gas severance taxes too low? appeared first on Shale Gas Reporter. This post appeared first on Shale Gas Reporter.

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Natural Gas – 100 Years Ago Today, February 10, 1923!

Natural Gas – 100 Years Ago Today, February 10, 1923! Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. …. ….  Natural gas news from a hundred years ago offers great perspective for discussing one of the cleanest sources of energy available then and still today. I thought it might be fun and illuminating to look back 100

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Natural Gas – 100 Years Ago Today, October 21, 1922!

Natural Gas – 100 Years Ago Today, October 21, 1922! Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. …. ….  Natural gas news from a hundred years ago offers great perspective for discussing one of the cleanest sources of energy available then and still today. I thought it might be fun and illuminating to look back 100

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Pa. Supreme Court decides consumer protection law can’t be used to sue oil and gas companies over leases

In a recent decision, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court decided the state attorney general’s office can’t invoke the state’s consumer protection law to sue Chesapeake Energy Corp. and Anadarko Petroleum Corp. on behalf of landowners who claim they didn’t get fair deals in leasing their mineral rights, according to Penn Live. The high court concluded only buyers

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Illinois Landowners Could Offer DRBC A Lesson on Regulatory Takings

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. . … Illinois landowners have gotten some attention with their Petition to the Supreme Court for Certiorari and the DRBC should be worried. The DRBC has spent a decade frustrating the efforts of landowners in the basin to develop their natural gas resources. It has done so with an illegal

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Russian Oligarchs Must Be Cheering Cuomo and Biden Energy Policies

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … Kevin Mooney cites Governor Cuorruptocrat as the model for anti-fracking policies apparently designed to appease Russian oligarchs. Kevin Mooney is out with another one of those pieces where he exposes the insanity of so many fractivists and the political left that has co-opted their cause. Or, is it just

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Drilling leases in Arctic wildlife refuge largely go to Alaska state agency

How often do royalty payments come? Depending on the company, royalty payments can arrive monthly or quarterly. Are my royalty payments transferable? Yes. If you plan on selling your property, notify the gas company that is leasing your land and your realtor. They will make arrangements to allow the royalty payments to transfer to a

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Trump admin auctions leases in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

The Trump administration began the process of auctioning off the development rights to parcels of land in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge on Nov. 16, according to Spectrum News. Oil and gas companies are now able to submit nominations for which parcel of land they’re interested in drilling within the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge’s roughly 1.5

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