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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.
Resource Gallery WVSORO May 4, 2022
WVSORO has created a new slide show on its website that shows how well plugging should be done, to show how plugging it is not “capping” a well, and to explain why plugging companies need lots of oversight to prevent well pluggers from yielding to the financial temptation to do an easily hidden bad job. More

What a depleted oil or gas well should look like after it is plugged
Resource Gallery WVSORO November 3, 2021
Plugged well cross-section drawing and Monuments the driller is supposed to leave after the well is plugged More
Tags: Abandoned wells, Oil and Gas, Pollution

Orphaned Wells
Misc Gallery WVSORO November 19, 2018
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Tags: Orphaned wells

Getting the Waters Tested — PowerPoint Presentation on Base Line Water Testing
Resource Gallery, Water Advice WVSORO October 1, 2013
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Tags: Leasing, Oil and Gas, Water

Siltation from Marcellus Shale well pad construction
Bad Example Gallery, Surface Owner Story WVSORO January 29, 2013
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Tags: Marcellus shale, Siltation

The industrialization of rural West Virginia caused by the Marcellus Shale gas play
Resource Gallery WVSORO December 12, 2010
A few years ago, Marcellus Shale gas was unrecoverable, and West Virginia was a relative backwater in the oil and gas industry. The new techniques of high-volume hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling have made a sea change in all of that. More
Tags: Marcellus shale, Rural industrialization

WV SORO local meetings
Misc Gallery WVSORO November 1, 2010
Photos from a few local surface owner meetings held in 2008 through 2010 More
Tags: Land use, Leasing, Oil and Gas

Upshur County Marcellus Shale drilling site, before, during and after drilling
Bad Example Gallery, Surface Owner Story WVSORO September 23, 2009
Well site during active drilling to the Marcelllus Shale formation in Upshur County, West Virginia, in 2008. (An additional water storage pit is not in the photo.) Copyright WVSORO, June 2008. Permission to use may be obtained from WVSORO. More
Tags: Marcellus shale

What is the “Marcellus Shale”?
Resource Gallery WVSORO February 5, 2009
Basic information form the West Virginia Geologic and Economic Survey. More
Tags: Marcellus shale