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Sep 4, 2016

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The Ownership in Place Rule

Commercial development of oil in the United States began in 1859 with the first producing well drilled by Colonel E.L. Drake in Titusville, Pennsylvania. At the...

Jul 24, 2016

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Subsurface Mineral Rights

West Virginia grants expansive implied property rights to owners of subsurface mineral estates. Such rights can be expansive. In West Virginia and other states with rich...