In a 33 page decision issued yesterday, February 29, 2012, North Dakota federal district court judge Dan Hovland clarified some important North Dakota legal issues that will have significant implications for North Dakota surface rights owners, especially those in the Bakken oil field. Landowners and oil developers will likely have to consider Judge Hovland's decision in negotiating damages payments for allowing drilling rigs on land with severed mineral rights.
By way of background, there is a federal court case pending in the North Dakota federal district courts that originated out of a disagreement between a Bakken-area surface rights owner and Enron Oil & Gas (EOG), an oil company that does a lot of business in the Bakken.
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Judicial Decision Affecting (Positively) Surface Rights Owners -- The Williston Basin, North Dakota, USA
Link here to NorthDecoder.com, a site with which I am not familiar. A reader alerted me to it.
