LexisNexis ( July 15, 2022, 12:25 PM EDT) -- With commodity prices skyrocketing and geopolitical events exerting an oversized impact on the oil and gas market, it’s certain that new oil and gas exploration and development activity will increase in the United States. This uptick in activity means that lots of state-law liens designed to protect everyone from oil-field service providers to owners of rights in unextracted hydrocarbons may play a more prominent role and be the source of increased litigation in the coming years....