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Fracking is a non-technical term for Hydraulic Fracturing. Fracking or Hydraulic Fracturing is a method for retrieving, otherwise inaccessible, natural gas and petroleum by injecting pressurized fluid and chemicals into underground rock causing fissures. The fissures widen and expand allowing petroleum and gas to escape and flow to areas where it can be retrieved. less -

Pennsylvania Rule of Capture Still Bars Subsurface Trespass Claim

Gray Reed on 1/20/2021

After a trial court order, two appellate opinions, a dissent, and another appellate opinion, the tension between a well operator and an adjacent mineral owner over whether hydraulic fracturing can constitute a subsurface...more

Currents - Energy Industry Insights - June 2019

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC on 6/10/2019

Supreme Court Sides with Property Owners; Companies have No Right to Get Natural Gas Without Permission - "The Supreme Court said, 'A mineral owner or lessee has an implicit right to use the overlying surface to access...more

Can Natural Gas Drillers Drink Your Milkshake?

Tucker Arensberg, P.C. on 4/19/2018

The fight over the historical concept of the “Rule of Capture” as applied to gas rights in Pennsylvania continued recently as the appellees in the matter of Briggs v Southwestern Energy Prod. Co. recently requested a...more

Currents - Energy Industry Insights - January 2018 - Issue 4

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC on 1/26/2018

West Virginia Surface, Mineral Rights Owners Say Details Will be Key to Getting Co-Tenancy Bill Passed - "Surface and mineral rights owners most affected by co-tenancy legislation say they're wary of jumping on the...more

Understanding Mineral Rights and the Impact on the Value of Your Property

Miles & Stockbridge P.C. on 7/3/2017

The United States is one of a handful of countries in which private real property owners can hold and own subsurface mineral rights. In a majority of countries, only the government can own and benefit from these rights. ...more

Texas Supreme Court to Decide Whether Groundwater Estate Should Be Granted Accommodation Status Similar to Mineral Estate

BakerHostetler on 10/26/2015

On October 14, 2015, the Texas Supreme Court heard argument in a case styled Coyote Lake Ranch, LLC v. The City of Lubbock, which dealt with the question of whether the accommodation doctrine should apply when a groundwater...more

Paradigm Shift: Hydraulic Fracturing, Shale Development and Energy Abundance

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC on 10/22/2015

As is commonly held by energy sector experts, the game-changing development of the shales and the resurgence of natural gas as a virtually new, huge, versatile, long-term fuel, with a shrinking environmental footprint, is...more

Drilling at depth – proposed changes to subterranean rights

Dechert LLP on 9/17/2014

The government’s consultation on underground drilling access for the extraction of gas, oil and geothermal energy came to an end on 15 August 2014. The consultation sought views on the government’s proposal to introduce new...more

The Accommodation Doctrine Revisited: A Question of "Fairness to Both Parties"

Jackson Walker on 7/22/2014

As Texas holds tight to its position as the nation's number one oil and natural gas producing state, the Texas Supreme Court's decision to revisit the over forty-year-old accommodation doctrine, which requires oil and gas...more

UK Shale Exploitation: Securing Subsurface Access Rights

King & Spalding on 4/10/2014

In February, King & Spalding was invited to participate in an access rights workshop run by UK oil and gas regulator, the Department for Energy & Climate Change ("DECC"). The purpose of the workshop was to invite...more

Hydraulic Fracturing Land Lease Negotiations - Energy Company and Landowner Rights

Jackson Walker on 4/2/2014

The objective of this presentation is to provide an overview of the main issues and documents related to the challenges confronting mineral owners in the negotiation of contracts with energy companies. In addition the paper...more

The Fracking Debate Is Not Unique To The United States

Gray Reed on 5/30/2013

I spent the better part of last week surrounded by foreigners … which is to be expected because I was in a foreign country, the Netherlands to be precise....more

Longmont Sued By Colorado Oil and Gas Association

BakerHostetler on 12/18/2012

Last week we reported that the state of Colorado would not directly sue the town of Longmont to challenge the ban on hydraulic fracturing that town voters enacted in the November election....more

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