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Overview Ohio's dormant minerals act (DMA) is designed to rejuvenate abandoned oil and gas reservations by granting them to the surface owner (a more detailed explanation of the DMA can be found here). A basic DMA process with one oil and gas...
Below are the materials the National Business Institute asked me to prepare for a seminar on Oil and Gas law. LEASE / OWNERSHIP CHALLENGES, DISPUTES AND NEGOTIATIONS A. Recent case law and litigation trends Though Ohio was one of the earliest...
This article discusses situations arising when several people own the same piece of land, and only some of them sign an oil and gas lease. Resolving this issue requires a discussion of basic property ownership principles. Types of Land...
Ohio has so many pipelines that if I tried to put them all on one map, you wouldn't be able to see much. What I've done here is shown what I consider to be the major, state-wide pipelines. All of these lines are interstate (crossing into at least...
I sold my property but did not reserve the mineral rights. Why am I still receiving royalty checks? If you did not reserve mineral rights when you sold your property, you are almost certainly not entitled to royalty checks anymore. The reason the...
I bought property with an existing lease on it. What do I do? How do I get an oil and gas company to update their records and add me as the current owner? Most oil and gas leases (even really old ones) contain some variation of this phrase: “No...
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