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Gastar Exploration Announces Legal Resolution and Well Results
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Gastar Exploration Inc. has announced the resolution of a legal challenge to its West Virginia operations and results of recent Marcellus well completions.
A West Virginia state judge has rejected the second of a pair of lawsuits launched by a unit of Axiall Corp. aimed at stopping Gastar Exploration Inc.'s hydraulic fracturing operations in the Marcellus Shale.
In a December 24, 2014 order, Circuit Judge David W. Hummel dismissed Gastar from a lawsuit filed by Eagle Natrium LLC in Marshall County, West Virginia, requesting a temporary injunction. In doing so, Judge Hummel agreed with Gastar's position that Eagle was legally precluded from retrying its claims in West Virginia after losing a nearly identical lawsuit in Pennsylvania earlier this year.
Less than a week later, the trial court…
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