Companies Deny Breaching Lease Related To Royalty Payments

(October 3, 2023, 1:05 PM EDT) -- WHEELING, W.Va. — Two energy companies on Oct. 2 filed amended answers to an amended complaint in a hydraulic fracturing mineral rights dispute in West Virginia federal court, denying that they breached a duty related to the lease agreement between the parties that pertains to specific drilling practices and allegations that they diminished the plaintiffs’ royalty payments....