Source: https://www.stinson.com/Resources/Newsletters/2014_Newsletters/Oil___Gas_Newsletter,_February_2014.aspx
Timestamp: 2019-04-25 14:20:57+00:00

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Below are recent industry developments and cases of interest from the last quarter.
Federal fracking regulation effort continues. Momentum to increase royalty rates on federal lands has stalled ... read more.
State and city fracking developments include more regulations, challenges to other regulations, seismic investigations and more industry-sponsored websites ... read more.
North Dakota regulators considering rules imposing additional requirements to drill on nearly one million acres of private land ... read more.
Kansas Corporation Commission directs KCC Staff to discuss possible statutory or regulatory changes relating to responsibility for plugging orphan wells ... read more.
Environmental issues impacting oil and gas development and production continue to intensify. Three trending issues highlight some of the latest concerns ... read more.
Kansas Supreme Court grants review of pro-royalty owner decision by the Kansas Court of Appeals ... read more.
North Dakota Supreme Court finds that simple interest, rather than compound interest, is appropriate under the North Dakota unpaid royalties statute. Van Sickle v. Hallmark & Assoc., Inc., 2013 ND 218 (N.D. 2013) ... read more.
North Dakota Supreme Court holds that mineral and life estate reservations in the same deed were not ambiguous. Rolla v. Tank, 2013 ND 175 (N.D. 2013) ... read more.
North Dakota federal court finds the pre-drilling operations sufficient as a matter of law to hold the leases under the habendum clauses. Wold, et al. v. Zavanna, LLC, et al., 2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 181631 (D.N.D. December 31, 2013) ... read more.
North Dakota Supreme Court rules that, unless specifically conveyed by the State, North Dakota owns Missouri riverbed minerals up to the high watermark. Reep v. State, 2013 ND 253 ... read more.
Texas federal district court determines shut-in royalties were not timely paid and production in paying quantities after the primary term did not prevent the leases at issue from expiring. EnerQuest Oil & Gas, LLC v. Plains Exploration & Production Co., 2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 159802 (D. Tex. Nov. 7, 2013) ... read more.
Texas appellate court finds overriding royalty interests do not survive partial termination of the underlying leasehold absent express language to the contrary. Sutton v. SM Energy Co., 2013 Tex. App. LEXIS 13859 (Tex. App. Nov. 13, 2013) ... read more.
Texas Court of Appeals interprets horizontal Pugh and severance clauses. Community Bank of Raymore v. Chesapeake Exploration, L.L.C., 2013 Tex. App. LEXIS 13698 (Tex. App. Nov. 6, 2013) ... read more.
Colorado Court of Appeals finds that the use of an access road was permissive and, thus, denies the operator's prescriptive easement. Maralex Resources, Inc. v. Chamberlain, Case No. 12CA2575, 2013 CO 182, 2014 Colo. App. LEXIS 3 (Jan. 2, 2014) ... read more.
Colorado Supreme Court rules against holders of vested water rights inside and outside of an Indian reservation who challenged the authority of the Colorado State Engineer to designate certain groundwater formations in Colorado as nontributary, as part of the process of issuing permits for the extraction of groundwater by wells used for oil and gas operations. Pawnee Well Users, Inc. v. Wolfe, Case No. 12SA13, 2013 CO 67, 2013 Colo. LEXIS 865 (Nov. 25, 2013) ... read more.
West Virginia federal court interprets Tawney requirements strictly to find that lessees have a duty to bear all costs incurred until gas reaches the downstream, third-party market. W.W. McDonald Land Co, v. EQT Production Co., 2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 165427 (S.D. W. Va. November 21, 2013) ... read more.

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