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  2. Oil and gas law in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Oil and gas rights offshore are owned by either the state or federal government and leased to oil companies for development. The tidelands controversy involve the limits of state ownership. Although oil and gas laws vary by state, the laws regarding ownership prior to, at, and after extraction are nearly universal.

  3. United States energy law - Wikipedia

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    Wyoming is the top coal producer of the 50 states in the United States, has significant oil and gas reserves, and its government and laws reflect an interest in energy production, especially fossil fuels. [104] The Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission regulates many aspects of oil, coal, and gas development in this resource-rich state. [105]

  4. Energy law - Wikipedia

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    Energy law includes the legal provision for oil, gasoline, and "extraction taxes." The practice of energy law includes contracts for siting, extraction, licenses for the acquisition and ownership rights in oil and gas both under the soil before discovery and after its capture, and adjudication regarding those rights.

  5. Rule of capture - Wikipedia

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    The rule of capture or law of capture, part of English common law [1] and adopted by a number of U.S. states, establishes a rule of non-liability for captured natural resources including groundwater, oil, gas, and game animals. The general rule is that the first person to "capture" such a resource owns that resource.

  6. Petroleum fiscal regime - Wikipedia

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    The state can agree with the licensees to take it in kind or in cash. This arrangement applies to both crude oil and to natural gas, both in concessionary and contractual license systems. Production shares. The body of a production sharing contract layouts the production share between the contractor(s) and the state or its state-owned oil ...

  7. Mineral Leasing Act of 1920 - Wikipedia

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    The Mineral Leasing Act of 1920 30 U.S.C. § 181 et seq. is a United States federal law that authorizes and governs leasing of public lands for developing deposits of coal, petroleum, natural gas and other hydrocarbons, in addition to phosphates, sodium, sulfur, and potassium in the United States.

  8. Proposed oil and gas law changes pass first committee - AOL

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    Jan. 25—A bill that would make the most significant changes in decades to a nearly 90-year-old state fossil fuel law drew a lengthy and heated discussion about increasing regulation on an ...

  9. Exemptions for fracking under United States federal law

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    The amendments added two exclusions to the definition of underground injection: ""(i) the underground injection of natural gas for purposes of storage; and (ii) the underground injection of fluids or propping agents (other than diesel fuels) pursuant to hydraulic fracturing operations related to oil, gas, or geothermal production activities. [25]