(August 20, 2024, 9:50 AM EDT) -- LAS VEGAS — A research study published Aug. 19 by the journal “Nature Energy” has found that landmen working for hydraulic fracturing companies “have important advantages in the form of persistent and personalized tactics” against landowners in Ohio to force the unitization of wells against the desires of landowners, and it found evidence that landmen engaged in legal compulsion when this persistence fails, which “suggests a considerable procedural inequity at the heart of the process.”...