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    • About WVSORO

      Educating you about the rights that you have.
      Working to get you the rights you deserve.

      The WV Surface Owners’ Rights Organization (WVSORO) is a statewide membership organization formed in 2007 by concerned landowners, public interest lawyer Dave McMahon and WV Citizen Action Group. We serve as resource for our members and others who are looking for information and guidance on how to deal with oil and gas related activities on their land and in their communities. We also advocate for public policy and regulatory changes that will help surface owners have their rights recognized and respected by the oil and gas drillers and that will help them protect their land, air and water.

      Join Us! Click here to print a membership form or e-mail info@wvsoro.org to have a membership packet mailed to you.

      Contact us to help us help you educate your legislators about the need to implement the recommendations of the Horizontal Well Act studies and other protections for surface owners. Your personal stories will help make the case for the public policy and regulatory changes needed to protect your land, air and water.

      Partial Funding by The Dunn Foundation.

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Useful Information

What should I do?
  • Advice for common situations and updates to Surface Owner's Guide
  • You can refuse or block a horizontal well on your land
  • If there is a proposal to plug an oil or gas well on your land, what should you do?

  • Should surface owners sign pore space lease etc. papers? If so, how much money should you get?

Resources
  • West Virginia Surface Owners' Guide to Oil and Gas
  • Erosion and Sediment Control Manual (that drillers must follow)
  • Reporting Violations: Information on Filing a Complaint with the WV DEP Office of Oil & Gas or the EPA
  • Why an old well is plugged, not “capped”; and how a well is supposed to be plugged; and why a lot of oversight of well pluggers is needed.
  • Latest on leasing,  forced pooling, amendments/ratifications and cotenancy
  • How a Gas Well Is Drilled Down Into the Ground, and What Can Go Wrong
  • What a depleted oil or gas well should look like after it is plugged
  • Lawyers, experts, tax and mineral management advice, and water testers
  • State Office of Oil and Gas
  • Information on the Marcellus Shale
  • What are oil and gas wells’ “API” numbers? How to find them and use them to get info on wells.
  • More Helpful Links and How To Find Information On Particular Gas Wells
Shared Experiences
  • Marcellus Shale Play well examples
  • Photo slide show for drilling of small shallow well.
  • Bad Examples!
  • Surface Owner Stories
Mineral Owner Info
  • Leasing/Royalty info

Advice and Updates

  • West Virginia Surface Owners' Guide to Oil and Gas Summary and Updates
  • Enacting Local City or County Ordinances
  • Seismic and Geophysical
  • Water
  • Pipelines
  • Leasing / Amendments
  • Pore space/carbon sequestration offers
  • The Provisions Needed by Surface Owners In Surface Use Agreements
  • Partition Suits and Threats Thereof
  • Gas Leaks
  • Free Gas
  • Field / Farm Tap gas service
  • Buying Land
  • Selling Land / Mineral Rights
  • Selling land / Surface Owners
  • Getting to own the oil/gas/minerals under your surface land
  • Abandoned wells
  • Going on Land Where There is Drilling Activity
  • Floodplains
  • Noise
  • Coal Bed Methane
  • Pads and other disturbance next door to you.  What to do. Nuisance
  • Farmland preservation - even if you do not own oil and gas minerals

 

Issue Cloud

Abandoned wells Aboveground tanks Coal bed methane Data center DEP DNR Drilling waste Eminent domain EPA Fence-line monitoring Floodplains Fracking Green completion drilling Horizontal wells Injection wells Land re-union Land use Leasing Legislation Marcellus shale Methane Minerals-Royalties newsletter Noise Nuisance suits Oil and Gas Orphaned wells Partition suits Pipelines Pollution Pooling Pore space Reclamation fund Roads Rural industrialization Seismic testing Siltation Tax sales Water Well pads Well Spacing
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