Posts By: Doug Clark

All Things Marcellus®: Upcoming Landowner Seminar, Expiring Leases, and Lease Provisions (5/15/16)

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Doug announces landowner ONLY seminar for Wednesday, June 15, 2016 at the Dean Center in Wellsboro, Tioga County.  Landowners must pre-register and non-registered landowners will not be admitted.  Doug discusses his statewide representation of Pennsylvania oil and natural gas rights’ owners and the various oil and gas attorney services provided by The Clark Law Firm, PC.

Doug addresses the importance of understanding your existing oil and gas lease when considering future offers and development contracts, including but not limited to…

All Things Marcellus® GEM 104, KZFM 96.9, KC 101.5 FM, and 1250 AM The Answer
Air Date: May 15, 2016

All Things Marcellus®: Pennsylvania’s Oil & Gas Conservation Law and Extend/Amend Lease (5/8/16)

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Doug explains his oil and gas practice across Pennsylvania and landowner only representation.  Doug introduces listeners to Pennsylvania’s Oil and Gas Conservation Law and its applicability to the Utica Shale formation.  Doug jumps on his soap box to beg landowners to “STOP SIGNING” oil and natural gas agreements without knowledgeable and experienced legal counsel.  Doug again reminds listeners that when gas companies stop drilling expensive horizontal wells in a low natural gas price market opportunities may arise to negotiate new leases or to negotiate landowner friendly addendum terms when extending or modifying your oil and gas lease.

All Things Marcellus® GEM 104, KZFM 96.9, KC 101.5 FM, and 1250 AM The Answer
Air Date: May 8, 2016

All Things Marcellus®: Identifying Oil and Natural Gas Right Owner “Opportunities” (5/1/16)

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Doug dedicates this All Things Marcellus show to identifying oil and natural gas right owner “opportunities” when they are approached for new agreements, including but not limited to gas lease extensions and modifications, extensions of pipeline agreements, and all other natural gas related agreement extensions.  Doug walks listeners through a sample consultation and review with a landowner with a pending request by the gas company to extend their expiring oil and gas lease.  Doug introduces how the landowner contacted the office to begin the consultation and review process and what actually goes into the initial review and consultation when landowners send in their oil and gas lease and related documents to the office for a detailed in-office or telephone conference call.

All Things Marcellus® GEM 104, KZFM 96.9, KC 101.5 FM, and 1250 AM The Answer
Air Date: May 1, 2016

Gas Lease Terminations and Lease Extensions

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Question: When Does My Oil and Gas Lease Terminate and Should I Enter Into an Agreement or Top Lease to Extend my Expiring or Terminated Gas Lease?

What Must a Drilling Company do to “hold” My Gas Lease Beyond 5 Years?

The Impact of Low Natural Gas Prices on Drilling and Expiring Leases

Beware of Companies Crying Poor and Offering Little Financial Incentive to enter into a Gas Lease Extension or Top Lease

Should I Extend My Existing Lease or Enter into a Top Lease at this Time?

Lease Extensions and Top Leases as a Second Bite of the Leasing Apple

Lease Extension and Modification Reviews and Consultations

All Things Marcellus®: Lease Termination, Pugh Clauses, & Depth Severance (4/17/16)

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Doug discusses oil and gas lease termination language and when do gas leases terminate.  What is “held by production” and how can I tell if my gas lease has ended?  Doug discusses what energy companies and drilling companies have to do to continue a gas lease beyond the primary term.  Can a natural gas company park a truck on my property or must they drill and pay me royalties to extend my lease, or is the answer somewhere in the middle.  Doug breaks down a typical 5 year gas lease and when a lease will terminate or continue beyond 5 years.  Doug also begins the Pugh Clause discussion and how non-unitized acreage can be released under certain circumstances.

All Things Marcellus® GEM 104, KZFM 96.9, KC 101.5 FM, and 1250 AM The Answer
Air Date: April 17, 2016

All Things Marcellus®: Learning from Landowner Mistakes (3/27/16)

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Learning from mistakes.  What factors should landowners be considering in order to avoid entering into bad agreements with energy companies. Explanation of the impact of low natural gas prices on Pennsylvania landowner’s royalty payments. Doug discusses his oil and gas websites and natural gas blogs for landowner information.   Why oil and gas right owners must consider low gas prices when evaluating any outstanding gas lease offers, gas lease extension offer or any other natural gas contract.   Does it make sense to enter into contracts with gas or pipeline companies when the companies tell the landowners that they do not have money and they are not drilling at this time?  Doug addresses the importance of specific legal counsel and advice for each landowner’s individual situation.  If you are presented with an offer to extend or modify an existing oil and gas lease, you must fully review your options and not extend terrible agreements for many years or decades into the future.  Landowners must stop signing bad legal contracts and must start seizing and maximizing opportunities and second chances.

All Things Marcellus® GEM 104, KZFM 96.9, KC 101.5 FM, and 1250 AM The Answer
Air Date: March 27, 2016

Why Are Gas Companies in Tioga County and across Pennsylvania Aggressively Requesting Oil and Gas Lease Extensions, Modification and Amendments for very Little Financial Compensation?

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Many leases in Pennsylvania are set to expire in 2016 or shortly thereafter and Southwestern Energy and other gas companies across Pennsylvania are aggressively seeking to extend existing gas leases for little to no compensation. Given today’s low natural gas prices, Southwestern Energy and many gas companies across Pennsylvania are seeking to extend existing Oil and Gas Leases to avoid drilling expensive horizontal wells into the deeper Marcellus and Utica Shale formations. Property and gas rights owners must be very cautious when considering any extension, modification or amendment of their existing gas lease as these extensions or other changes generally benefit the gas company and not the landowner.

All Things Marcellus®: Gas Lease Extension Overview

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Doug explains how The Clark Law Firm, PC represents landowners and oil and gas right owners across Pennsylvania and clients across the country. Doug addresses why he has been hired by gas and pipeline company employees and Landman to represent them on their own personal property and gas right ownership.  Why do company representatives and employees hire knowledgeable oil and gas attorney’s to represent them in private affairs?  Landowners must recognize that the gas company Landman is out to negotiate the best possible deal in favor of the company they work for, and not you, the landowner.  No gas company or pipeline company Landman goes to the landowner’s house and tells them that they are working for the company and they are out to get the best deal for the company and give the landowner the worst terms possible.  Even company representatives and Landman know the benefits and will often hire attorney’s to work for them in their own private matters involving gas and pipeline companies.

All Things Marcellus® GEM 104, KZFM 96.9, KC 101.5 FM, and 1250 AM The Answer
Air Date: March 20, 2016

Should Landowners Enter Into Oil and Gas Leases Given Today’s Low Natural Gas Prices?

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Pennsylvania landowners must carefully consider how the current low natural gas price market may negatively impact Oil and Gas Lease offers by energy companies. As I often say on All Things Marcellus, gas companies are very smart and their landman understand how to present gas lease and other offers to landowners in order to secure signatures. One very common company landman technique at the present time is to use low natural gas prices as a tool to convince landowners to sign bad gas leases and other agreements.