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,...
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...
Spotlight on Professor Mark ‘Buzz’ Belleville
Current association: Appalachian School of LawPast associations: Woods & Rogers PLC (Blacksburg, Va.) and Calfee, Halter & Griswold LLP (Cleveland and Columbus)Law School: Ohio State University College of LawUndergraduate: Miami University (B.A.,...
Sandra Fraley Receives the 2025 John L. McClaugherty Award
The Energy & Mineral Law Foundation (EMLF) is proud to announce it has presented its 2025 John L. McClaugherty Award to Sandra K. Fraley. The McClaugherty Award is the Foundation’s highest honor and recognizes outstanding contributions to the field of energy and...
Market Enhancement Clause in Ohio Lease Did Not Authorize Lessee’s Disputed Deductions
Keith B. Hall LSU Law School In The Grissoms, LLC v. Antero Resources Corp., 133 F.4th 605 (6th Cir. 2025), the United States Sixth Circuit held that the market enhancement clause in certain oil and gas leases in Ohio did not authorize the lessee to deduct the costs...
Fun in Nashville
This year’s Annual Institute and the follow-up Special Institute on Bridging Traditional and Renewable Energy Practice will be in Nashville, Tennessee, a great city to visit. Nashville has fantastic food, refreshing drinks, wonderful music, interesting history, and...