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I am considering signing a lease or doing other business with a driller or landman for a company. Can I find out if that “operator” has a history of “violations” of state laws or rules?
Leasing / Amendment AdviceWV Surface Owners' Guide Update WVSORO August 10, 2009
You can find out information about “violations” on the West Virginia DEP, Office of Oil and Gas web site. But be aware that much enforcement is done informally without the state writing up official “violations” that will show up on this data base. More
Issues: DEPOil and Gas
They are spraying water out of a drilling pit on to the land (or they propose to do so in a drilling permit I received). Can they do that?
Water AdviceWV Surface Owners' Guide Update WVSORO July 22, 2009
A driller is not allowed to just knock a wall out of the pit and let the water and other stuff in it run into a stream, either during or after drilling. More
Issues: Drilling wasteOil and GasPollution
Pennsylvania discloses frac fluids. What’s in that fracking fluid?
NewsWater Advice WVSORO December 12, 2008
It’s something many people in the Upper Delaware region want to know: What's in that fracking fluid? More
Issues: FrackingWater
Minerals/Royalty Owner Info
Leasing / Amendment Advice WVSORO May 23, 2008
Someone came and wants me to sign a lease to the oil and gas and other minerals under my land. What should I do?
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Issues: Leasing
Information for lawyers
WV Surface Owners' Guide Update WVSORO May 1, 2008
If you are a lawyer looking for research materials etc. and other help representing surface owners, we can provide you some assistance. David McMahon is an attorney with long experience in some aspects of oil and gas law. More
Issues: Oil and Gas
Native vegetation alternative study for logging roads.
DocumentWV Surface Owners' Guide Update WVSORO April 22, 2008
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Issues: Land useLeasingOil and Gas
Manual for Managing Oil and Gas Well Sites for Wildlife (that a surface owner might ask driller to use)
WV Surface Owners' Guide Update WVSORO April 22, 2008
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Issues: DNRLand useOil and Gas
A driller is taking water from a stream to drill or “frac” an oil or gas well. Can they do that?
Water Advice WVSORO April 1, 2008
According to an e-mail the State Office of Oil and Gas sent to its inspectors and others, water in a stream is technically the property of the State. [NOTE: We have been informed that this information may be incorrect] More
Issues: FrackingWater
Well Spacing and Royalty Sharing. (a.k.a. “Spacing, Pooling and Unitization”). What is it?
Leasing / Amendment AdviceResource Gallery WVSORO December 18, 2007
What it is, and why it should apply, instead of the Rule of Capture, to the drilling of all oil and gas wells in W.Va. More
Issues: LeasingPooling
Guide Summary: I just got a notice of a driller’s application for a permit to drill a well on my land. What should I do?
WV Surface Owners' Guide Update WVSORO November 23, 2007
This happens when you own the surface, but someone else owns the minerals, and the mineral owners has signed a lease with a gas driller. (Or it could also mean that even though you own the minerals with your surface, you or someone who owned the minerals before you, signed a lease with a driller. More
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