Advice for common situations / Updates to Guide

• West Virginia Surface Owners Guide to Oil and Gas summary and updates
• Seismic and Geophysical
• Water
• Pipelines
• Leasing
• Gas Leaks
• Free Gas

West Virginia Surface Owners Guide to Oil and Gas summary and updates.

• Summary: I just got a notice of a driller’s application for a permit to drill a well on my land!  What should I do?
  
  
• How much $ should I get for a well site?
  
  
• Information on roads for surface owners commenting on permits
  
  
• Drill water wells as a strategy to protect your rights as a surface owner!
   
• You might be able to refuse a horizontal well on your land.
  
  
• Are there other rules the driller has to follow regarding the gatherlines to my well, during permitting or afterwards?
  
  
• They are drilling or going to drill a well on my land.  I want to have it re-seeded with vegetation I want, not the fescue etc. that is in the State's soil erosion and sediment control manual.  What can I do?
  
  
• They are spraying water out of a drilling pit on to the land (or they propose to do so in a drilling permit I received).  Can they do that?
   
• Manual for Managing Oil and Gas Well Sites for Wildlife that a surface owner might ask driller to do.
   
• Native vegetation alternative study for logging roads.
   
• I want to find out whether a driller (“operator”) has any outstanding permit violations so that I can make that comment on the operator’s well drilling permit application.  How do I do that?
   
• There is a large, Olympic swimming pool sized, pond being built on/next to my land to drill a gas well.  Is there any danger from that?
   
• Information for lawyers
  

Seismic and Geophysical

• Dawson Geophysical wants permission to do seismic testing on my land! What should I do?

Water

• A driller is taking water from a stream to drill or "frac" an oil or gas well.  Can they do that?
   
• They are spraying water out of a drilling pit on to the land (or they propose to do so in a drilling permit I received).  Can they do that?
   
• I want to find out what is in the water they use to "frac" a wells when they put it down and when it flows back. Is there a way I can do that?
  
  
• One company doing frac jobs allows its frac water composition to be posted on OOG web site
  
  
• Different explanation of frac fluids (See page 10)
  
  
• Pennsylvania discloses frac fluids: article from Delaware Valley
  
  
• One company doing frac jobs allows its frac water composition to be posted on OOG web site 

Pipelines

• General Info on Gathering Pipelines
  
  
• Are there other rules the driller has to follow regarding the gatherlines to my well, during permitting or afterwards?
  
  
• There are gathering pipelines around me leaking gas.  What can I do?

Leasing

• Someone came and wants me to sign a lease to the oil and gas and other minerals under my land.  What should I do?
   
• I am considering signing a lease or doing other business with a driller or landman for a company.  Can I find out if that “operator” has a history of “violations” of state laws or rules?

Gas Leaks

• There are gathering pipelines around me leaking gas.  What can I do?
   
• What about Hydrogen Sulfide or "sour gas"?

Free Gas

• Information about connecting
• Free Gas,and IRS Form 1099 and IRS Form W-9