True Oil LLC v. BLM is a recent opinion by the Wyoming Federal District Court, based on the appeal of an order out of the BLM Rawlins Field Office. At issue was whether a fee surface.
Iskandia Energy Operating, Inc. v. SWEPI LP is the latest installment in a growing line of Texas cases addressing various forms of subsurface trespass. Iskandia recognizes the.
Underground salt caverns are commonly used for the storage of liquids including liquefied hydrocarbons. These caverns are created by solution mining of salt from inside underground salt.
Case law has been unsettled on ownership of the storage rights associated with underground salt caverns. In Myers Woodward v. Underground Servs. Markham, the Corpus Christi Court of Appeals held the surface owner owns the subsurface of the property including salt mining caverns.