Texas Smackover Lithium Play
As the Smackover (SMK) Lithium (Li) play picks up steam we need to acknowledge that from regulatory and legal standpoints, there will be significant differences between the play in South Arkansas and in East Texas. Very soon we expect to know more about royalty provisions and regulatory guidelines. From past experience with dissimilarities between Texas and Louisiana mineral laws and regulatory statutes governing the Haynesville Shale, we hope to limit confusion and make it easier to access the information that will be pertinent to land and mineral owners.
In order to help members and quests to the website and to avoid confusion, we will start two new discussions, one for Texas and one for Arkansas. There is an abundance of information in the original SMK Lithium discussion threads and members may want to click on them and then save them to their computer bookmarks/favorites to be able to access them in the future as they will eventually rotate off the main page. After 24 hours, comments in those discussions will be closed but the replies will remain available in the website archive. Archived discussions are available by using the search box in the upper right corner of all website pages.
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Permalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant on
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Thanks for the heads up. It will be interesting to see how Hopkins County landowners feel about wind farms.
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Permalink Reply by phoenix on
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Yes also why the need for all these local energy sources? Something may be planned in this area. As you noted above solar and wind in NE Texas topography must be much more costly. So what justifies the extra cost that it needs to produced locally?
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Permalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant on
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Good thoughts and questions. My first thought is, are those the actual leases being recorded in the public record or memorandums of lease? If the full lease is recorded, there may be some clues in the language. Then again, would a wind farm in Hopkins County have the means to connect to the grid? If this is for local energy needs, what industry would require that electrical capacity? We have a rural NE LA data center in the planning stages but the utility is planning one or more gas fired generating plants. Would a wind farm generate enough power for a data center? Would a lithium company with plans for an E TX DLE plant be interested in wind energy? It seems a strange location for a wind farm!
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Permalink Reply by phoenix on
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Only a memo of the wind leases are filed but certainly appears even from memo only covers wind. Also the Marvin-Nichols reservoir which has been on again and off again for decades is all of a sudden brought back up. This proposed lake that has always been opposed by the locals is on the Sulphur River which is the North boundary of Franklin, Titus and Hopkins counties. So this lake in the same area could be a source of hydroelectric power. A possible additional power source although would take years to complete the timing seems strange.
Chttps://preservenortheasttexas.org/controversy-over-proposed-marvin-nichols-reservoir-again/ontroversy over proposed Marvin Nichols Reservoir again
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Permalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant on
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The DFW metroplex has been looking for additional water capacity and the Marvin-Nichols Reservoir is likely to be for that purpose but it could certainly be a source of hydro-power. The advent of memorandums has made it difficult to know what is going on with ground and subsurface leases. Just as the industry intended.
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Standard Lithium had a big meeting this morning to discuss Franklin County plans and leases. Anyone know any details?
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Permalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant on
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It's possible but there are some limitations. You can click on a members name in blue and it will take you to their personal page where you can leave a message. The limitation comes in regarding how that member has set up their personal page and preferences. They can choose to keep their page private and not allow anyone to see the content. They can choose to let their "friends" have access but not others.
Go to the top of the main page and click on My Page and you will be able to see the ways you can set up access to your page. You should send a "friend" request to those who you would care to message privately. You can request them to keep your messages and comments private.
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Permalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant on
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I expect that the the Mount Vernon Optic - Herald will have an article this week. You can also check out the Franklin County Facebook page.
https://www.facebook.com/p/Franklin-County-TX-County-News-100077287...
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Permalink Reply by Joe B. Lovelace on
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I don't think anyone is sure about the law in Texas regarding produced Brine to refine Lithium. See this recent presentation in PowerPoint.
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Permalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant on
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Thanks, Joe
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Permalink Reply by Joe B. Lovelace
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I have been neglectful in posting the comments made to the Texas Railroad Commission (TRRC) Rule to implement SB 1186 by Senator Bryan Hughes from the 2023 Texas Legislative Session.
The proposed rule, posted October 15, 2024, clarified that the TRRC's jurisdiction over brine mining includes the authority to regulate brine production wells and brine injection wells (“spent brine return injection wells”) used for lithium mining, which requires re-injecting naturally occurring brines into the formation from which they were produced after the extraction of minerals.
The posted comments to the Rule have been posted at this link under TRRC Proposed Rules (cut and paste in your web browser) or click here
https://www.rrc.texas.gov/general-counsel/rules/proposed-rules/comm...
All the comments are enlightening including those by and Oil & Gas Law Firm - Coghlan Crowson - that includes this sentence that would indicate further legislation will be filed in the Texas Legislative Session that begins in January 2025.
Due to our law firm’s extensive exposure to the brine mining rush, leasing, DLE development, and the activity being in our back yard, we contacted and are working with Senator Bryan Hughes’ of State Senate District 1 on potential legislation to address continued questions in the law concerning brine minerals and ownership that impacts his constituents and our clients in Northeast Texas.
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