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34 New Shale Well Permits Issued for PA-OH-WV Mar 13-19
New shale permits issued for Mar. 13-19 in the Marcellus/Utica rose by four from the prior week. There were 34 new permits issued in total last week, including 24 new permits for Pennsylvania, 4 new permits for Ohio, and 6 new permits in West Virginia. Last week the top receiver of new permits across PA and OH was Chesapeake Energy with 7 new permits spread across three PA counties: Bradford, Sullivan, and Wyoming. Range Resources received 6 new permits in Washington County, PA.
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The Ohio Court of Appeals recently issued a decision in a case involving lease language about a “depth severance clause” that is very important for both landowners and drillers to know about. In Tera LLC v. Rice Drilling D LLC, et al., a landowner in Belmont County, OH, signed a lease with language that leases both the Marcellus and Utica shale layers, but all other formations were “reserved to the lessor” (i.e. the landowner). However, the driller, Rice (now EQT), drilled into and produced hydrocarbons from the Point Pleasant layer that sits immediately below the Utica. According to the lease (and the decision by the court), that was a no-no.