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BakerHostetler

Pore Space Update: Texas Joins the Majority American Rule, but Accommodation Issues Remain at Play

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Texas is the latest in a growing number of states to tackle the issues related to ownership and severability of the pore space underneath land as carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) remains a relevant tool in CO2...more

Houston Harbaugh, P.C.

Creating a Chasm or Filling a Void?

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If you drive around Pennsylvania, you are likely not going to encounter a “For Sale” sign offering a cavern in the ground. But the voids, pore spaces, and cavities in the subsurface can be quite valuable now and in the...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Currents - Energy Industry Insights - March 2019 #2

West Virginia Supreme Court Hears Oral Arguments in EQT Doddridge County Trespassing Case - "The state Supreme Court will decide if a lower court judge got it right when he ruled natural gas production company EQT trespassed...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Currents - Energy Industry Insights - January 2019 #2

WV Supreme Court Mulls Marcellus Shale Mass Litigation Case from Harrison, WV - "While the case centers on Harrison County, where the surface owners live and the Marcellus Shale operations are underway, the case could have...more

Blank Rome LLP

Drill on Through to the Other Side: No Trespass When Drilling Through Mineral Estate with Surface Use Agreement

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Action Item: The Texas Supreme Court annunciated two critical points in Lightning Oil Co. v. Anadarko E&P Onshore: (1) unauthorized interference may be a trespass only when it impacts the mineral lessee’s ability to exercise...more

Gray Reed

Texas Subsurface Trespass Law Clarified

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We know that in Texas the mineral owner has the right to explore for and produce the minerals. What does that leave for the surface owner? In Lightning Oil Company v. Anadarko E&P Onshore, LLC the Texas Supreme Court tells us...more

Bennett Jones LLP

B.C. Supreme Court Sets Aside B.C. Surface Rights Board Rent Review

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In reasons released on May 30, 2014, the B.C. Supreme Court set aside the B.C. Surface Rights Board’s compensation award to a landowner in northern B.C. and remitted the case back to the Board for reconsideration: Progress...more

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