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Oil & Gas Boom Leads to Leasing Educational Campaign
Press Release WVSORO May 20, 2008
The West Virginia Surface Owners Rights’ Organization (WV SORO) has announced a new campaign to educate landowners about leasing the minerals under their land. The group’s main focus is on providing information to people who own the surface, but either do not own the minerals or have bad leases with few surface owner protections included. More
Issues: Leasing, Oil and Gas

300 agree to $90 million gas deal [in PA]. Sanford, Deposit landowners approve 5-year drilling pact
News WVSORO May 12, 2008
A coalition of about 300 property owners dealing with energy prospectors in eastern Broome and western Delaware countries has struck it rich, and drilling hasn't even started. More
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

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: DNR, Land use, Oil and Gas

Consumer Advisory: Attorney General Corbett urges consumers to carefully review offers to buy or lease oil & gas rights on their properties
Press Release WVSORO April 11, 2008
Attorney General Tom Corbett today urged consumers to carefully consider and thoroughly review any offers to purchase or lease the oil or gas rights for their properties. More
Issues: Leasing

WVSORO Surface Owners’ News – March/April 2008
Newsletter WVSORO April 9, 2008
Introduction of Bill of Rights Raises Awareness of Driller Abuses | Speaking Truth to Power More
Issues: Leasing, Legislation, Oil 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: Fracking, Water

Owners have way to fight landmen
News WVSORO March 30, 2008
It's now easier for landowners to lodge complaints about the landmen who knock on their doors and try to strong-arm them into signing a lease for the rights to natural gas that may be under their property. More
Issues: Leasing

Property owner files suit over gas extraction
News WVSORO March 28, 2008
A group of property owners have filed a $20 million lawsuit against CNX Gas Co. LLC and Consol Energy Inc. claiming the companies have extracted coal-bed methane gas from their properties without compensating them. More
Issues: Leasing

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

A presentation on the Geology of the Marcellus Shale
Resource Gallery WVSORO February 29, 2008
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Issues: Marcellus shale

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

A technical presentation with photos on fracturing and stimulating this formation
Resource Gallery WVSORO February 3, 2008
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Issues: Marcellus shale, 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: Legislation, Oil 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 shale, Roads

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 shale, Oil and Gas

Well Spacing and Royalty Sharing. (a.k.a. “Spacing, Pooling and Unitization”). What is it?
Leasing / Amendment Advice, Resource 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: Leasing, Pooling

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