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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 -

Update on Pennsylvania Subsurface Trespass

Gray Reed on 6/12/2024

Briggs v. Southwestern Energy Production Company, LLC is good news for Pennsylvania mineral owners bringing claims for subsurface trespass by fracking. In 2018 in “Briggs 1”, the Briggs family sued SWN for subsurface...more

Texas Jury Awards Damages for Fracking Nuisance Claim for the Second Time

BakerHostetler on 5/29/2014

Last Friday, a Texas jury awarded a Tarrant County couple $20,000 in damages after finding activities at a natural gas drilling site located 165 feet from their property constituted a temporary private nuisance. The verdict...more

Texas Family Awarded $2.9 Million in Damages from Fracking Nuisance Claims

BakerHostetler on 5/7/2014

On April 22, 2014, a Dallas County, Texas jury awarded a family $2.9 million dollars for personal injury and property damages arising out of their suit against Aruba Petroleum, Inc. The jury’s verdict includes damage awards...more

Pa. Litigation Update

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC on 8/31/2013

This summer was anything but a sleepy period for decisions from Pennsylvania courts on issues important to the oil and gas industry. Here are summaries of four cases issued in July and August - one from the Third Circuit...more

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Fracking › Damages

Update on Pennsylvania Subsurface Trespass

Texas Jury Awards Damages for Fracking Nuisance Claim for the Second Time

Texas Family Awarded $2.9 Million in Damages from Fracking Nuisance Claims

Pa. Litigation Update

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