Keith B. HallLSU Law CenterIn Hull-Wright v. Arsenal Resources, LLC, 2026 WL 125974 (W. Va. Ct. App. 2026), four owners of mineral royalties (“Petitioners”) appealed a unitization order from the Oil and Gas Conservation Commission of West Viriginia.BackgroundIn May...
Pennsylvania Federal Court Decides Issues in Lease Formation Dispute
Keith B. HallLSU Law CenterIn Warner v. Shell Legacy Holdings, LLC, 2025 WL 2783702 (W.D. Pa. 2025), the court resolved several issues in ruling on motions for summary judgment. The Warner plaintiffs alleged that the defendants failed to pay bonuses due under oil and...
On rehearing, West Virginia’s Top Court Sticks to Expansion of Marketable Title Rule
Keith B. HallLSU Law Center In Romeo v. Antero Resources Corp., 917 S.E.2d 26 (W. Va. 2025), the plaintiffs brought a class action in state court, arguing that Antero Resources had underpaid the royalites owed under oil and gas leases covering land in Harrison County,...
Spotlight On: Fall Symposium Co-Chairs
The Fall Symposium is right around the corner - October 7 through 9 - and this year’s program chairs have been working hard with the planning committees to put together an excellent agenda. Click here for registration and more. The 2025 symposium is particularly...
Celebrating 50 Years of EMLF’s Fall Symposium
Celebrating 50 Years of EMLF's Fall Symposium As the Fall Symposium — f/k/a the Kentucky Mineral Law Conference — approaches its 50th year in 2025, the conference, to be hosted at Lexington’s all-new Central Bank Center, has become one of the longest running...
Register for the 38th Annual Kentucky Professional Engineers in Mining Seminar
A message from Steve Gardner, 2024 President of the National Leadership of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers (AIME): It has been my honor to serve as the 2024 President of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and...
Member Spotlight on Guy Hensley
Current association: Warrior Met CoalPast associations: Walter Energy, Jim Walter ResourcesLaw School: Cumberland School of LawUndergraduate: B.S. in Systems and Central Engineering, the University ofWest FloridaFamily: six children ages 14 to 24Home: Birmingham,...
2025-2026 Scholarship Recipient Nathaniel Corwin
Nathaniel Corwin, an EMLF General Fund Scholarship recipient, is in his third year at University of Texas School of Law. He plans to study in Spain this fall, following his dream of managing global EPC contracts and operation agreements to provide the world with...
2025-2026 Scholarship Recipient Addison Jones
Addison Jones is going into her third year at LSU Paul N. Hebert Law Center. Jones said growing up in Louisiana, she always understood the critical role that the energy and natural resources industries play in both local and national economies. She's a recipient of...
46th Annual Institute a Smashing Success
Nearly 200 registrants gathered Sunday, June 8 through Tuesday, June 10, 2025, at The Westin Nashville for the Energy & Mineral Law Foundation’s 46th Annual Institute. The attendees included a record 22 law students who attended using Schetroma Travel Grants, as...