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Insights

What Realtors Should Verify Before Listing Oil and Gas Property
Selling a property connected to oil and gas activity requires more than checking square footage, school districts, and recent comparable sales. A lease can…
Mapping Water Withdrawal Permits Near New Pad Sites
A new shale pad site can look ready on a drilling map while still carrying unresolved water-supply questions. Hydraulic fracturing may require substantial…
How Gathering Lines Shape Shale Lease Offer Values
A lease offer for mineral rights reflects far more than acreage, geology, and recent drilling activity. Infrastructure can determine whether a promising tract…
Finding Large Consolidated Mineral Holdings in Shale Plays
Identifying mineral owners with substantial, concentrated holdings requires more than locating a single tract with an active well. The most valuable prospects…
How To Understand Parent And Child Well Spacing Rules In The Permian
Parent-and-child well spacing is a central issue in Permian Basin development. A parent well is an existing producer, while a child well is drilled later into…
HBP Status in Shale Asset Evaluations
Held by Production, commonly abbreviated HBP, is a central concept in evaluating oil and gas leases. It describes a lease that remains active because…
Utica drilling permits and the signals shaping winter planning
A sharp increase in drilling permits across the Utica shale can look like an immediate sign of accelerating natural gas activity. For winter planning, however,…
How to Cross-Reference Pipeline Rights-of-Way With Tax Parcels
Pipeline development rarely follows the clean boundaries shown on a single map. A proposed route may cross several tax parcels, overlap an existing easement,…
A Field Guide to the Marcellus Shale’s Core and Tier 2 Counties
The Marcellus Shale is one of the largest natural gas formations in the United States, stretching beneath much of Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, and New…
Why Royalty Buyers Favor Some Shale Plays Over Others
Royalty buyers rarely evaluate a shale opportunity by looking at production volume alone. They study the durability of that production, the cost of replacing…


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