Texas Oil & Gas Attorney
AUGUST 29, 2023
COG Operating LLC , was faced with the issue of who owns the water produced by a hydraulic fracturing operation: the oil and gas company operating the well or the surface owner and the company the surface owner leased its water rights to?
The Energy Law
SEPTEMBER 17, 2013
Dicharry On July 20, 2013, the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources amended its reporting and disclosure requirements for hydraulic fracturing stimulation operations. By Sarah Y. 1824 (July 20, 2013). Before the amendment, the regulation did not specify a reporting deadline.
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The Energy Law
MARCH 31, 2020
In January of this year, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania tackled an issue that has been confronted by few other courts—whether the rule of capture precludes a claim for subsurface trespass due to hydraulic fracturing. [1] Southwestern operated several wells on the leased tract, several of which were hydraulically fractured.
The Energy Law
APRIL 20, 2012
By Stephen Wiegand On April 17, 2012, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) and National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP) for natural gas wells that are hydraulically fractured.
The Energy Law
OCTOBER 3, 2011
The new Subpart OOOO would include operational standards for completions of hydraulically-fractured gas wells. Non-exploratory and non-delineation wells would need to use reduced emission completion, commonly referred to as “green completion,” while exploratory and delineation wells would be allowed to use pit flaring.
The Energy Law
AUGUST 10, 2017
In these transactions, the Drilling Party pays for or “carries” all or a substantial portion of the Lease Party’s share of the costs of drilling and completing one or more wells on the leases (“Earning Wells”). Many carry provisions end when the Earning Well is completed as a well is capable of producing hydrocarbons.
The Energy Law
MAY 12, 2016
According to the complaint, the harm allegedly includes the “potential carcinogenic effects of hydraulic fracturing flowback water” and the “increasing earthquakes” allegedly linked to injection wells used for oil and gas wastewater disposal.
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