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U.S. Court of Appeals Holds Assignments of Overriding Royalty Interests Do Not Attach to Utica Shale/Point Pleasant Formation
Vorys attorney Casey Valentine authored an article titled "U.S. Court of Appeals Holds Assignments of Overriding Royalty Interests Do Not Attach to Utica Shale/Point Pleasant Formation" for the Institute for Energy Law's September 2024 Oil & Gas E-Report.
The article examines a recent decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals in Sabre Energy Corp. v. Gulfport Energy Corp., et al., which analyzed the language in an assignment of overriding royalty interests to determine whether the overriding royalty interests attached to the defendants’ horizontal wells drilled into the Utica Shale/Point Pleasant formation.
