Posts by WVSORO
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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
Chesapeake Appalachia defending the agency decision
Document WVSORO March 11, 2008
Issues: Marcellus shale, Well Spacing
Document WVSORO March 11, 2008
Issues: Marcellus shale, Well Spacing
Circuit Court Decision on Flat Rate Royalties
Document WVSORO March 11, 2008
We think that the "contemplation of the parties" theory that is only mentioned in this decision and also contract theories might be good theories for a lawyer to pursue in a court case. More
Issues: Leasing
Document WVSORO March 11, 2008
We think that the "contemplation of the parties" theory that is only mentioned in this decision and also contract theories might be good theories for a lawyer to pursue in a court case. More
Issues: Leasing
A presentation on the Geology of the Marcellus Shale
Resource Gallery WVSORO February 29, 2008
Issues: Marcellus shale
Resource Gallery WVSORO February 29, 2008
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
Press Release WVSORO February 5, 2008
Focus is on protecting landowners from abuses by oil & gas drillers More
Issues: Oil and Gas
WV SORO’s Motion for leave brief together with the Amicus Brief itself.
Document WVSORO February 4, 2008
Issues: Marcellus shale, Well Spacing
Document WVSORO February 4, 2008
Issues: Marcellus shale, Well Spacing
