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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
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
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
West Virginia Surface Owner’s Rights Organization 2008 Legislator & Legislative Candidate Questionnaire
Document WVSORO May 6, 2008
Oil and natural gas prices are at record highs. In West Virginia, annual permit applications for new and redrilled wells have doubled since 2002. High levels of oil and gas production have directly benefited producers, drillers, support industries, their employees, and mineral owners. More
Issues: Legislation
Document WVSORO May 6, 2008
Oil and natural gas prices are at record highs. In West Virginia, annual permit applications for new and redrilled wells have doubled since 2002. High levels of oil and gas production have directly benefited producers, drillers, support industries, their employees, and mineral owners. More
Issues: Legislation
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
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
“Writ of Prohibition” exhibits
Document WVSORO April 12, 2008
Appendix to The West Virginia Coal Association Petition for a “Writ of Prohibition” in the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals to prevent the Oil and Gas Conservation Commission from declaring Marcellus wells to be “statutory” “deep wells”. More
Document WVSORO April 12, 2008
Appendix to The West Virginia Coal Association Petition for a “Writ of Prohibition” in the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals to prevent the Oil and Gas Conservation Commission from declaring Marcellus wells to be “statutory” “deep wells”. More
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
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
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
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
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
Natural Gas Lease Forms and Addendum
Document WVSORO March 28, 2008
This document was drafted for Pennsylvania law and conditions. However, it is useful for West Virginia for the most part in explaining the major terms of leases, how addendums work, and things to consider in signing a lease. More
Issues: Leasing
Document WVSORO March 28, 2008
This document was drafted for Pennsylvania law and conditions. However, it is useful for West Virginia for the most part in explaining the major terms of leases, how addendums work, and things to consider in signing a lease. 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
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
Oil and Gas – 155 page Petition for Appeal (Tawney)
Document WVSORO March 18, 2008
Issues: Minerals-Royalties
Document WVSORO March 18, 2008
Issues: Minerals-Royalties
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
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
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