Peter B Lewis
July 30, 2018 | The Legal Intelligencer
Drainage and the Rule of Capture in the Oil and Gas IndustryThe rule of capture holds that “The owner of a tract of land acquires title to the oil and gas which he produces from wells drilled thereon, though it may be proved that part of such oil or gas migrated from adjoining lands.
By Peter B. Lewis
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