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District Court Dismisses Challenge to West Virginia Unitization Act

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On March 20, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia dismissed Sonda v. West Virginia Oil and Gas Conservation Commission for lack of standing. The lawsuit was brought by mineral interest owners...more

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Can Retroactive Pooling and Unitization Revive An Expired Lease?

As we have written about before, a troubling issue facing landowners in the Marcellus Shale region is the practice of retroactive pooling and unitization. Retroactive pooling and unitization occurs when a driller records an...more

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Ohio's Fifth District Court Of Appeals Issues A Decision On Unitization

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On August 13, 2018, the Ohio Fifth District Court of Appeals issued a decision in Am. Energy-Utica, LLC v. Fuller, 2018-Ohio-3250, holding that an order unitizing the landowner’s parcel under R.C. 1509.28 after the landowner...more

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Ohio Supreme Court denies writ of mandamus in dispute involving ODNR

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The Supreme Court of Ohio on January 30, 2018 issued an opinion in State ex rel. Kerns v. Simmers, Slip Opinion No. 2018-Ohio-256, denying a writ of mandamus seeking to compel the Chief of the Ohio Department of Natural...more

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Unitization: Specific Considerations for LNG Export Projects

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Unitized Gas to LNG Export - A number of global LNG export projects – existing, under construction and planned – process (or will process) natural gas produced from unitized gas fields. Gas produced from unitized gas...more

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Oil and Gas Unitization: Specific Considerations for Cross-Border Unitization

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Setting the Scene - There are more than twenty bilateral unitization Treaties and Joint Development Agreements (JDAs) in place today between governments that share an international (usually maritime) boundary. These...more

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