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By Marice Richter, The Dallas Morning News Sep. 7--Thousands of area residents who leased their mineral rights for natural gas drilling could find there's red tape between signing a lease and cashing a royalty check. Some residents of the Oakhurst neighborhood in Fort Worth are among the first to experience a problem with collecting royalty payments because the drilling company that holds the leases in Oakhurst is insisting that subordination agreements be signed between homeowners and...
By Deepa BabingtonNEW YORK -- Standing tall amid sunflowers and bales of hay, a greasy drilling rig roared loudly, a recent addition to an otherwise idyllic ranch north of Dallas, Texas.Other signs of change sweep across rolling green fields -- green-painted gas wells, large trucks trundling across narrow country roads and a mesh of pipes peeking out of bushes.This is Ponder, Texas, population 507, one of many towns north of Dallas where a natural gas drilling boom is transforming the rural...
Latest Carboniferous Reference Libraries
Atrypa (lampshell) is an extinct genus of brachiopod from the Late Ordovician stage (444 million years ago) to the Carboniferous stage (318 mya). It occurs abundantly as fossils in marine rocks. Fossils have been found on all continents except Antarctica. This animal has distinctive concentric growth lines and is unusual in that in some Devonian beds there are numerous remains of the pedicle (foot) valve, but very few of the brachial (upper) valve -- scientists speculate that strong ocean...
