Oh, what a year 2020 has been. Not only did Covid-19 hit our shores earlier than we realized, its impact on the oil and gas industry was, to say the least, challenging. Leasing activity took a nosedive in Southeast Ohio.
Read MoreOn January 3, 2018 the Ohio Supreme Court, in Alford v. Collins-McGregor Operating Company, 2018-Ohio-8, again supported oil and gas well developers and pounded one more nail in the landowner’s coffin.
Read MoreOn September 15, 2016, the Ohio Supreme Court in Corban v. Chesapeake Exploration L.L.C., 2016-Ohio-5796 ruled that the 1989 version of the Ohio Dormant Mineral Act (“DMA”) did not operate automatically to allow severed oil, gas and mineral rights to be deemed abandoned and vested in a surface owner.
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