Land Company Countersues Fracking Operator Over Rights To Subsurface Minerals

(March 4, 2024, 8:04 AM EST) -- COLUMBUS, Ohio — A land management company has filed a counterclaim in Ohio federal court against a hydraulic fracturing operator seeking declaratory judgment that the fracking operator does not have the right to use the surface of property belonging to the land management company to construct horizontal well pads that will produce oil and gas from under that property....