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Past efforts to strengthen the rules for drilling in State Forests
Blog don_alejandro March 17, 2008
Proposed Rules Tighten Oil, Gas Drilling in State Forests (12/20, The State Journal) Additional Information and Background This initiative got started when the operator of gas wells in Kanawha State Forest abused the Forest by cutting a huge, hideous new road and in cutting it in the wrong place.  The operator also scraped vegetation off […] More
West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey on the Marcellus in some of W.Va.
Blog WVSORO March 17, 2008
The WVGES has prepared an Excel spreadsheet containing the API numbers of 1,700 West Virginia wells for which we have scanned e-logs which penetrated the top of the Onondaga Limestone (and therefore penetrate the base of the overlying Devonian shales). More
Issues: Marcellus shale
Information on signing bonuses and royalty payments paid by Chesapeake Energy in Wayne County, Pennsylvania
News WVSORO March 13, 2008
The gas leasing frenzy has ratcheted up another notch in northern Wayne County. Chesapeake Energy has just doubled its signing bonus offer from $750 per acre to $1,500 per acre and increased its royalty offer from 12½ to 15 percent. T More
Issues: Leasing
Landowners’ group to hold press conference at State Capitol
Press Release WVSORO February 5, 2008
Focus is on protecting landowners from abuses by oil & gas drillers More
Issues: Oil and Gas
WVSORO Surface Owners’ News – January 2008
Newsletter WVSORO January 19, 2008
WV-SORO Pushing for Surface Owners’ Bill of Rights | More Than 100 Attend WV-SORO’s First Regional Meeting in Weston | More
Issues: LegislationOil and Gas
Bulldozer and Poor Road Construction and Maintenance
Bad Example Gallery WVSORO January 19, 2008
This is a drilling rig and other equipment being pulled to the next drill site by a bulldozer because the access road is in such bad shape that the drilling rig and truck cannot get there on their own. It is common practice for bulldozers to pull rigs and trucks in this fashion due to road conditions. More
Issues: Marcellus shaleRoads
Unconventional natural gas reservoir could boost U.S. supply
News WVSORO January 17, 2008
Natural gas distributed throughout the Marcellus black shale in northern Appalachia could conservatively boost proven U.S. reserves by trillions of cubic feet if gas production companies employ horizontal drilling techniques, according to a Penn State and State University of New York, Fredonia, team. More
Issues: Marcellus shaleOil and Gas
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
Landowners’ group to meet in Weston
Press Release WVSORO November 27, 2007
Focus is on protecting landowners from abuses by oil & gas drillers More
Issues: Oil and Gas
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
How a Gas Well Is Drilled Down Into the Ground, and What Can Go Wrong
Resource Gallery WVSORO October 25, 2007
Emphasis will be on the measures the driller is required by the State to take to prevent pollution of groundwater or damage to other underground resources More
Issues: Drilling wasteOil and GasPollution
New State-Wide Organization Formed to Protect Landowner’s Rights
Press Release WVSORO October 10, 2007
West Virginia landowners now have a new organization focused on protecting them from abuses by oil & gas drillers – the WV Surface Owner’s Rights Organization (WV-SORO). More
Issues: LeasingMinerals-RoyaltiesOil and GasPoolingWell Spacing
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