Posts By: Doug Clark

All Things Marcellus® – Not a Problem Until They Become a Problem (11/22/15)

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Doug explains how signing bad natural gas and pipeline agreements are not a problem until they become a problem.  Discussion regarding how company friendly contracts can come back to bite the landowner in the future.  Doug emphasizes the importance of experience in oil and gas issues.  Also, discusses estate planning issues and the importance of having a specific plan in place to benefit your beneficiaries and heirs.

All Things Marcellus® GEM 104 and KZFM
Air Date: November 22, 2015

All Things Marcellus® – Future Gas (12/20/15)

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Doug discusses well pad and well site agreements as surface use agreements which supersede the terms of an oil and gas lease.  Doug explains the need for liability protection and indemnification language in future contracts and surface use agreements.  Doug offers examples of how landowners can be sued and lose indemnification and hold harmless protection by failing to put necessary language in the future surface use agreement.

All Things Marcellus® GEM 104 and KZFM
Air Date: December 20, 2015

All Things Marcellus® – Learn from Mistakes and Gas Prices and Deductions Expanded (11/15/15)

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Doug discusses gas and pipeline company’s landmen’s pitch of a “partnership” to landowners.  Doug provides an example of landowners who signed documents upon company representations only to be extremely disappointed when their property is turned into an industrial zone.

All Things Marcellus® GEM 104 and KZFM
Air Date: November 15, 2015

All Things Marcellus® – Gas Price Impact on Royalty Deductions (11/8/15)

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Doug touches on natural gas royalty deductions and percentage of deconditions relative to royalty payments; the need to have individual representation for estate planning.  Why every landowner should have at least a review and consultation with Attorney Clark before entering into any agreements to sell any oil, gas or mineral rights to any third party.

 

All Things Marcellus® GEM 104 and KZFM
Air Date: November 8, 2015

All Things Marcellus® – Lease Amendments, Gas Prices, Selling Gas Rights (11/1/15)

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Doug discusses solely landowner legal representation. Gas lease amendments to modify existing leases and need to understand and negotiate to avoid common mistakes.  The impact of low natural gas prices on lease and pipeline offers and the potential of future gas price increases. The need for landowner representation.

 

All Things Marcellus® GEM 104 and KZFM
Air Date: November 1, 2015

All Things Marcellus® – Major Landman Rant (10/25/15)

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Doug goes off.  Doug rants about Pennsylvania Landowners being taken advantage of by gas and pipeline company landmen and not appreciating the adversarial nature of the process.  Doug reviews how landowners were taken advantage of during the gas leasing phase and are repeating the same landowner mistakes when dealing with pipeline, roadway, and related issues.  Doug implores landowners to recognize their unique situation and negotiate all contracts and agreements.

All Things Marcellus® GEM 104 and KZFM
Air Date: October 25, 2015

All Things Marcellus® – Wellsboro Seminar & FERC (10/11/15)

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Doug discusses the importance of understanding your oil and gas lease and identifying what rights you are granting the gas company in exchange for the bonus payment and promise of potential future royalties. Doug addresses the importance of identifying the rights you are granting the company and the need to restrict those rights or identify the rights given to the company that you cannot restrict.

All Things Marcellus® GEM 104 and KZFM
Air Date: October 11, 2015

FREE GAS & PIPELINE SEMINAR

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Doug will be presenting a seminar to discuss gas and pipeline development in Tioga and the surrounding counties.  Landowners faced with a proposed pipeline agreements must assess their leverage, understand the proposed pipeline agreement and know what they are signing.  Join us on Wednesday the 21st from 6-8pm at the Deane Center for the Performing Arts.

Info sought on gas line approval process

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Two proposed projects in the FERC review stage will impact local communities.

One is Williams Companies’ $2.59 billion Atlantic Sunrise expansion of the Transco interstate pipeline, which includes running pipeline from Susquehanna County south through Wyoming, Luzerne, Columbia, Northumberland, Schuylkill and Lebanon counties.

The other is PennEast Pipeline Co. LLC’s $1 billion line that would start in Dallas Twp. and run through Luzerne, Carbon, Northampton and Bucks counties, terminating in Mercer County, New Jersey.