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Comment by David on August 2, 2010 at 8:33am

Beth, Where in Sullivan Count did you see this?

Comment by beth hamm on August 1, 2010 at 9:35pm

Saw several signs of DCNR leasing land to Gas company. Seizmic ribbons already in place. Heard they did lease some lands. Looking to see what company leased the State lands. Anyone have a site that I could find the leases for those leased in Sullivan. DCNR site has maps of leased areas but could not find the ones leased in Sullivan?

Comment by Richard Phillips on July 19, 2010 at 10:32pm

20% with adds of no storage or injetion wells plus other stipulations that seem to the norm.

Comment by Joe Googan on July 19, 2010 at 9:37pm

Thank you, I'll give him a call tomorrow. Was the royalty
20 %?

Comment by Richard Phillips on July 19, 2010 at 4:31pm

EDIT that was per acre.

Comment by Richard Phillips on July 19, 2010 at 4:29pm

Earlier today (7/19 ) I signed my mildred property for 5750.00 with Fred Taylor representing Chesapeake. 570-470-9016 I am not aware of any group effort in the area. as Ionly have a couple of acres I'm relatively happy with that price.

Comment by Joe Googan on July 18, 2010 at 9:58pm

Does anyone know of a group in the area between Mildred & Satterfield in Cherry Twp?

Comment by GMF on July 17, 2010 at 5:48am

I, and several others, own smaller co-joining parcels and are interested in leasing either separately, together or joining a "group". We are trying to gather info and get "in touch" with others in Davidson Township who have yet to sign a lease; with ones who know and/or are working the process. Chief and Chesapeake have both contacted several of us and presented "contracts". The "seismic" guys from Tidelands Geophysical have verbally indicated positive results are expected and stated the parcels not leased are considered "window tracts". I have perused the 23 May read mentioned by Keith Billet: Read more:
http://www.philly.com/philly/business /20100523_Firms_find_more_gas_beyond_the_Marcellus_field.html#ixzz0tvi1tDb9.
Is there anyone in Davidson Township still not leased; anyone working a lease; anyone who can offer any hands-on or heads-up details with obtaining what is good for the individual landowner, as well as are land?

Comment by David on July 8, 2010 at 9:38pm

I am part of a group who owns several hundred acres in lower Colley Township near Frost Hollow. We are very receptive to drilling and pipelines. I hope a few don't ruin it for the many who welcome drilling. Drilling done responsibly will be great for the county and region. We need natural gas. Better US gas than foreign oil.

Comment by john shorb on July 8, 2010 at 8:26pm

Jeff,

I attended the meeting. The first twenty minutes was a public relations primer concerning how wonderful Chief is. Chief had several knowledgable staff in attendance, in particular their water quality expert. They did a good job trying to answer everyone's questions, the bulk of which centered around safety and environmental concerns. I had three questions I wished to be answered, and they were. Chief is voluntarily casing all future gas well bore piping with oil well grade cement. Chief is agressively drilling in Sullivan County over the next year or two so as to drill as many wells as possible before their leases expire. They do not necessarily plan to bring the wells into production. Rather, they want to excercise their rights under existing leases and not have to pay a second time to release property. Many of the drilled wells will be capped, or moth balled, until such time as gathering lines catch up to the drilling. Third, potential drilling areas in which they hold leases containing pockets of land owners unreceptive to gas drilling and refusing to sign leases are the least likely (lower priority) potential drilling areas. Two other worthwhile pieces of infomation to be unveiled - they plan to hit the Sonestown and Muncy Valley areas hard. This area dovetails with a concentrated or mature area of effort for Chief in eastern Lycoming County. This area will see their gas transported south to the interstate pipeline in Lycoming County. They also have some plans for Fox, Forks and Elkland areas, but theses plans appear less aggressive than the aforementioned and the gas will flow north to the Tennessee pipeline in Bradford county. They also work freely and closely with Chesapeake, and develop together.

I thought the folks of Sullivan were very professional in their conduct and fair but firm in their questioning. Folks can be proud. Probably 75 or more folks attended. Several folks in the audience exhibited an anti gas bias, and interrupted eight to ten times to express personal opinions or hypothetical questions. The presentation group handled the situation well.

In summary, a fairly strong consensus was exhibited that the folks of Sullivan County take pride in their county's uniqueness and don't want it destroyed, even for money. On the heals of the BP fiasco, there was a healthy dose of scepticism with respect to Chief's assurances.

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