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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Kleeh grants the hydrocarbon exploration company's motion to certify two questions to the West Virginia Supreme Court in the Harrison County landowners' class action disputing the company's practice of deducting post-production costs and not paying royalties based on the price received at the point of sale. The questions are: 1). Do the requirements of Wellman v. Energy Resources and Estate of Tawney v. Columbia Natural Resources, extend only to the “first available market” as opposed to the “point of sale” when the duty to market is implicated? and 2). Does the first marketable product rule extend beyond gas to require a lessee to pay royalties on natural gas liquids (NGLs), and if it does, do the lessors share in the cost of processing, manufacturing, and transporting the NGLs to sale?