Meyer Law Office P.C. has extensive experience representing clients from Southwestern Pennsylvania in the Marcellus and Utica Shale Gas plays.  Attorney Meyer represents oil and gas clients in a variety of ways:

 

  • Reviewing and negotiating oil and gas leases
    • Negotiated hundreds of leases with EQT Production Company, CNX Gas Company, Range Resources, and Greylock Energy.
    • Represented land groups up to 1,500 acres.
    • Represented individual landowners with acreage as little as one-half of an acre to hundreds of acres.
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  • Reviewing and negotiating Right of Way Agreements
    • Pipelines
      • Once the well pad sites are constructed, midstream companies need to get the gas to market and approach landowners with pipeline right of way agreements.
      • Extensive experience representing landowners with:
        • Intrastate and interstate gas pipelines
        • Water pipelines
        • Surface pipelines
    • Roads
      • Represented landowners with permanent and/or temporary access roads to gain access to pipelines, facilities, and/or well pad sites.
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  • Reviewing and negotiating Surface Use Agreements
    • Successfully negotiated:
      • Numerous well pad sites in Greene County
        • Maximized the amount of recovery while obtaining the necessary protections for the surface owner.
      • Work space areas:
        • Permanent or Temporary

 

  • Designing plans with clients to reduce income and death tax liabilities from signing bonus proceeds and royalties.
  • Forming legal entities to maximize the greatest tax savings and provide a means to transfer family wealth to the next generation.
    • Limited Liability Companies
    • Family Limited Partnerships
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  • Litigating disputes over the payment of royalties, rental (signing bonus) fees, and executory rights.
  • Calculating and verifying net decimal interests to ensure that the correct amount of royalties are being paid.
  • Commencing Quiet Title and Declaratory Judgment actions to determine legal ownership of oil, gas, hydrocarbon, and mineral rights.
  • Performing title examinations to certify title on oil, gas, and mineral rights.

Attorney Meyer has had the privilege of being a presenter at the annual Oil and Gas Colloquium sponsored by the Pennsylvania Bar Institute.   He also has numerous contacts within the industry and has established a reputation for attention to detail and going the extra mile to ensure that his clients’ interests are protected.