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Permalink Reply by Joseph-Ohio on August 3, 2014 at 1:03pm

For information Phil and to be most clear, we (specifically I and my wife as landowners) are looking for a Utica Class, landowner cognizant lease as opposed to being Force Pooled / Force Unitized / our land / minerals siezed by action of Eminent Domain.

All of these other comments were discussed as might be applied to the other examples specified within this post as seemingly problematic.

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Permalink Reply by evan on August 3, 2014 at 8:14am

I do believe the driller has to have either 65% or 75% of the leases in a declared unit.  So if the driller had a bunch of adjacent parcels with say around 400 acres worth they could apply to ODNR to use just a couple hundred acres of Raven Rocks to finish out the unit, then I think they could eventually drill under alot of their acres.  A company was going to do this with my neighbors because he had Unitization taken out of his old lease.  So I do believe it can happen to them eventually. It's all politics 

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Permalink Reply by Joseph-Ohio on August 3, 2014 at 8:59am

Tangled web of politics for sure Evan.

I've also read 65%.

Can't see however how any acreage outside of any 'declared unit' (as you've called it) could be drilled unless leased for development myself.

Thanks for your reply.

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Permalink Reply by Philip Brutz on August 3, 2014 at 1:24pm

My guess is that some of the outside edges of Raven Rocks will be force pooled but not the main core.

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