( December 8, 2025, 8:29 AM EST) -- SHREVEPORT, La. — A federal judge in Louisiana has dismissed all claims brought against a hydraulic fracturing operator by a mineral rights holding company, ruling that because a Pugh clause in a mineral lease in between the parties “lacks the clarity necessary to encompass” compulsory unitization of wells, the lease was indivisible despite periods in which certain wells were not producing. As a result, the judge said that the claims against the fracking company were “moot.”...