Considerations for Landowners as Oil & Gas Activity Heats Up
- July 11, 2022 | By Alan D. Wenger | Oil & Gas
Here are some considerations for landowners in northeastern Ohio as oil & gas activity heats up.
What’s With Those EAP/Encino 1099 Forms?
- February 28, 2020 | By Alan D. Wenger | Oil & Gas
Lawyer cautions landowners about confusing information on 1099 MISC forms from EAP/Encino.
Proceed Carefully in Requests for Consent to Chesapeake-Encino Lease Assignments
- August 8, 2018 | By Alan D. Wenger | Oil & Gas
HHM lawyer Alan Wenger discusses the response Chesapeake lessors should take when approached by Chesapeake Exploration, L.L.C. about receiving consent to its lease assignments.
Oil & Gas: Protecting Landowners as Foxes Take Over Henhouses
- September 18, 2017 | By Alan D. Wenger | Oil & Gas
HHM lawyer Alan Wenger discusses concerns with oil and gas rights leasing, pipeline easements and sales of parcels used by companies for compression and other production and transportation purposes.
Ohio’s Dormant Mineral Act: Questions After Corban
- November 8, 2016 | By Alan D. Wenger | Oil & Gas
A recent Ohio Supreme Court finally gives direction for the many lower court cases pending on issues related to the Ohio Dormant Minerals Act. But the ruling raises uncertainties for some lessors and lessees.
Class Action Lawsuits Over O&G Royalties: 6 Issues to Consider
- November 9, 2015 | By Alan D. Wenger | Oil & Gas
Many royalty recipients are convinced they are being underpaid by a lessee because of improper cost deductions and sale prices tilted through schemes involving companies related to the lessee. Lessors face many roadblocks if they seek redress: royalty claims are…
Take Caution When Severing Ownership of Land & Mineral Rights
- March 16, 2015 | By Thomas G. Carey | Oil & Gas
Landowners these days are increasingly involved in transactions with severed mineral rights. A seller may wish to transfer ownership to a piece of land but retain the rights to future oil and gas development on that land. Sloppy language in…
Supreme Court Ruling Leaves Door Open to Local Regulation of Oil & Gas Development
- February 17, 2015 | By Alan D. Wenger | Oil & Gas
Headlines seem to say that the Ohio Supreme Court has upheld the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) statewide preemption over local municipal governments’ regulating oil and gas development within their municipal boundaries (read the ruling here). A majority of…
Left Behind: Is Valley Missing Royalty Rapture?
- June 4, 2014 | By Alan D. Wenger | Oil & Gas
From 2010 through 2012, the Mahoning Valley experienced a mad rush of oil and gas companies tying up drilling rights. This included thousands of new leases as well as thousands of already leased “deep rights” being assigned by conventional lessee…
Local Governments May Have Some Authority Over Oil & Gas Infrastructure
- April 29, 2014 | By Alan D. Wenger | Oil & Gas, Public Sector
The oil and gas industry and its acolytes want everyone to believe that anything remotely related to oil and gas development is preempted by state law. State law does give the Ohio Department of Natural Resources exclusive jurisdiction over some…