Lawsuit

An environmental organization that has long opposed shale gas development in Pennsylvania has filed to intervene in a lawsuit challenging the Delaware River Basin Commission’s (DRBC) ban on horizontal hydraulic fracturing in the 13,539-square mile watershed.

More than 30 small oil and natural gas producers have filed a lawsuit against Dominion Transmission Inc. (DTI) and affiliates in West Virginia, claiming that the companies breached their fiduciary duties by forcing the producers into unprecedented long-term, fixed-fee contracts for a pipeline project completed years ago.

A Western Pennsylvania common pleas court has again dismissed a landowner lawsuit filed against two environmental organizations and local residents for their efforts to oppose oil and gas development.

Chesapeake Energy Corp. and Barnett Shale partner Total E&P USA agreed Monday to pay $52.5 million to settle lawsuits with more than 13,000 people who had claimed they were underpaid royalties for natural gas leases.

Hostilities have climbed further in the once-friendly merger of Energy Transfer Equity LP (ETE) and the Williams Companies Inc. as the latter announced another lawsuit against its now-retreating suitor.

Hostilities have climbed further in the once-friendly merger of Energy Transfer Equity LP (ETE) and the Williams Companies Inc. as the latter announced another lawsuit against its now-retreating suitor.

A water authority in Southwest Pennsylvania has filed a lawsuit against Consol Energy Inc. and Noble Energy Inc., alleging the operators are wrongfully deducting natural gas post-production costs from royalties and those of private landowners nearby.

A water authority in Southwest Pennsylvania has filed a lawsuit against Consol Energy Inc. and Noble Energy Inc., alleging the operators are wrongfully deducting natural gas post-production costs from royalties and those of private landowners nearby.

Oklahoma producers on Monday fired back at environmental groups in a legal tussle in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma, asking for dismissal of a lawsuit over alleged oil/natural gas injection well-induced earthquakes in the state.