Gas Leases

The Fulton County Extension Office will be hosting an educational event aimed at discussing the ins and outs of residential gas leasing on Wednesday, July 30.
To be held at Fulton Theatre, the workshop for landowners who may be involved with future gas leasing will include several keynote speakers to touch on both the advantages and [...]

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The West Virginia Farm Bureau has been sponsoring meetings about gas and oil leases in several parts of the Mountain State. The message being promoted is a sound one — property owners should be careful before they sign anything.
While the Eastern Panhandle isn’t exactly Natural Gas Country, a number of property owners have been contacted [...]

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One nice thing that has come out of this gas lease boom is the number of people and groups who have gone out of their way to try and help educate people. With that said here’s another article full of great advice for people considering leasing their land.
Get all the facts before signing a gas [...]

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This story comes from The Daily Citizen and outlines the results of not getting professional advice when dealing with leasing your land for gas:
Kathryn Hastings of Plainview regrets not exempting her best property from the mineral rights lease she signed with Chesapeake Energy four years ago. As a result, she gave the natural gas giant [...]

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Gas leasing and the rumors about it are more talked about in country circles than today’s sky-high corn prices. But Pennsylvania Ag Secretary Dennis Wolff points out in his weekly column, “While natural gas development presents a tremendous economic opportunity, it also comes with the potential for many unconsidered issues.”
Knowing those issues, and planning accordingly, [...]

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When domestic gas prices spiked during an energy crisis in the early 1980s, prospectors came into the western part of the Quad- state region to acquire drilling rights. With oil at $130 a barrel and natural gas prices headed above $11 per thousand cubic feet, they may return.
Exploration and production companies are looking for huge [...]

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Alice Berger over at the blog Going Green has a post up regarding her concerns about gas leasing/drilling and it’s relation to the environment and is looking for input.
In January we received an unexpected letter from a gas company, asking us if we wanted to sign a lease. We ignored it. Then the news exploded [...]

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The Haynesville Shale is likely to become America’s largest natural gas field and perhaps the fourth largest in the world, Chesapeake Energy Chairman and CEO Aubrey McClendon disclosed Wednesday in a conference call with its newest partner, Plains Exploration and Production Co.
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Oklahoma-based Chesapeake is so committed to development of the deep underground natural gas reserve [...]

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It was a year ago, when men from the oil and gas companies knocked on the door of Stephen Woloszyn’s dairy farm in the small Cattaraugus County village of Delevan.
They wanted to drill for natural gas on his property.
“They showed up at my house, and told me who they were,” said Woloszyn, whose farm has [...]

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The folks over at the Wetzel Chronicle have written a great article about mineral rights owners and the relation to the gas lease boom. It’s a great article (but I will admit I am somewhat biased since they were nice enough to include information about my blog!)
The days of the $5 per acre lease are [...]

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