Using PA “Free Gas” Clause in Leases to Refute Royalty Deductions

We have a second article today dealing with post-production deductions in Pennsylvania oil and gas leases. Although this is an "in the weeds" legal article, it's worth your time and attention (if you are a PA landowner or driller) to read it and understand it. The lawyers at Houston Harbaugh, P.C. have discovered an ingenious way of exposing "net back pricing" and claiming post-production deductions under market enhancement royalty clauses as being hypocritical--by using a clause found in some leases that allows "free gas."

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