Texas landowners have filed a lawsuit against Chesapeake Energy over reduced royalty payments; unlike similar lawsuits, this one is seeking class action status. Charles and Robert Warren joined with a Johnson County couple to file the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Dallas.<\/p>\n

Beginning in August 2011, Chesapeake began deducting \u201cpost-production costs\u201d from the prices for natural gas used to determine payments to royalty owners. These costs include expenses such as compressing and treating natural gas to prepare it for sale. According to Chesapeake, the company previously had the legal right to charge for those costs but had chosen not to do so. At the time, the company stated that the costs would not be deducted if a royalty owner’s lease prohibited such charges. The Warrens claim that although their lease did prohibit charging for post-production costs, they were charged anyway.<\/p>\n

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