Post-Production

The West Virginia Supreme Court has sided with EQT Production Co. in a dispute over natural gas royalty payments, ruling that producers can deduct post-production costs in calculating the price at the wellhead.

The Ohio Supreme Court has decided that landowners that challenge natural gas producers about post-production costs deducted from royalty checks will have to keep heading to trial courts to resolve the issues on a case-by-case basis.

A bill that would protect Pennsylvania landowners from natural gas drilling post-production costs has again stalled in the General Assembly, which has only days left in this year’s legislative session.

A small Northeast Pennsylvania township in one of the epicenters of the Marcellus Shale passed a resolution late Tuesday to limit natural gas production because angry landowners contend that some operators are deducting “exorbitantly” high post-production costs from royalty checks.

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.

The Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) has discovered that some Marcellus Shale operators could be wrongly deducting post-production fees from royalties paid to the state under land they have leased in public forests, according to a department representative.