(internal quotation marks and citations omitted)).The Keiths also rely on dicta that appears in EOG Resources, Inc. v. Turner , 908 So. 2d 848, 854 (Miss. Ct. App. 2005). There, the Mississippi Court of Appeals stated that "a mineral owner or a lessee of the mineral estate, in the absence of additional rights expressly conveyed or reserved, may use as much of the surface as is reasonably necessary to exercise its right to recover minerals, without liability for surface damage."
This right means that the mineral lessee can go on the land and do all those things necessary and incidental to the drilling of a well....EOG Resources, Inc. v. Turner, 908 So.2d 848, 854 (Miss.Ct.App.2005) (Chandler, J.). Aside from the state of Mississippi law, though, Trinity has shown this Court very little.
As such, “a mineral owner or a lessee of the mineral estate, in the absence of additional rights expressly conveyed or reserved, may use as much of the surface as is reasonably necessary to exercise its right to recover minerals, without liability for surface damage.” EOG Res., Inc. v. Turner, 908 So.2d 848, 854 (¶ 18) (Miss.Ct.App.2005) (citing Union Prod. Co. v. Pittman, 245 Miss. 427, 433–34, 146 So.2d 553, 555 (1962)). Likewise, the mineral owner or mineral lessee has the absolute right to select the location for drilling a well.
As such, "a mineral owner or a lessee of the mineral estate, in the absence of additional rights expressly conveyed or reserved, may use as much of the surface as is reasonably necessary to exercise its right to recover minerals, without liability for surface damage." EOG Res., Inc. v. Turner, 908 So. 2d 848, 854 (¶ 18) (Miss. Ct. App. 2005) (citing Union Prod. Co. v. Pittman, 245 Miss. 427, 433-34, 146 So. 2d 553, 555 (1962)). Likewise, the mineral owner or mineral lessee has the absolute right to select the location for drilling a well.