Well pad / pipelines are a hassle

To any landowners who are now in a drilling unit, you should feel very fortunate if your land wasn't chosen for the well pad or any pipeline activity. It's too much of a hassle to deal with. Your land is torn up and it's literally taken over and will never be the same again. So, you are lucky if you get royalty checks without any surface activity. It's far worse of a headache then it's worth.

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Permalink Reply by jason irvine on June 26, 2014 at 8:20am
I hope you were paid handsomely for the pad on your property. That land will be useless. They do disappear after the pipe is installed. The area will be changed forever. It didn't bother me to much because I wanted a lot of it cleared anyway. The top soil is gone but in weztel Tyler red clay I couldn't grow anything on it anyway. Only white tail extreme would grow. Change sucks but the money was good. 35 a foot for 2650 feet.
Permalink Reply by Mary on June 26, 2014 at 9:00am

Although the well pad is not located on our property, Chevron leased seven acres of ours and cleared a treed area to use for building several ponds and access road. We were okay with all of this until a subcontractor for Chevron (Kings out of Fayette County, PA) came to do the reclamation. I'm not sure what happened to all of our topsoil but I can see that none of it ended up on our property. We've got tree roots, stumps, rocks, fabric, tarps in addition to big ruts. My husband is just now trying to mow it for the first time and he's bottomed out brush hog so many times. We've met with our Chevron Rep over three months ago and he states that Kings are now tied up on a job in North Central PA but should be back to fix it. We've been lied to so many times that figure we'll probably end up fixing everything ourselves.

Not sure if you can declare on your Lease but I sure as heck wouldn't let Kings of Fayette County anywhere near your property for the reclamation. No doubt, it will end up a disaster!

Permalink Reply by farmgas on June 26, 2014 at 10:36am

So, which gas companies are more committed to landscaping, mulching, etc?   Consol seems to do a pretty nice job.

Permalink Reply by jason irvine on June 26, 2014 at 1:02pm
I'm sorry to hear that. If these companies want to stay around they better take care of the locals. Here in wv the locals can be a little destructive to equipment and very costly if they are not treated well.
Permalink Reply by Carl Krebsbach on June 26, 2014 at 11:31am

If it is far worse of a headache than it is worth, then shouldn't you should have held out for an amount that would have made it worth it? (and if that amount is not worth it to the gas company, then so be it; you at least wouldn't be stuck with a headache that is not worth the money)

Permalink Reply by mark on June 27, 2014 at 11:47pm

ZACK

thanks for posting this thread we are really on the fence with mark west in there proposal for a pipeline moneys fair but really until now didn't really hear anybodies take on construction except for kind of keep a eye on what there doing and yes I agree they should take care of the landowners because they could be the best mid-stream company in the world but without the landowners they're a storage building full of pipe and valves and NO profits   mark

Permalink Reply by Appalachian on June 30, 2014 at 2:12am

The REX east runs though my ground.  Money seemed tangible at the time...looking back - nope.  Admittedly, I did not have much choice on the matter either.  How many years later is it and this summer will be first time it requires bush hogging.  Not much that will grow in clay sandstone & shale.  I just found a nice russian olive growing smack in the middle of it this weekend.  There are a few other "weeds" growing that I don't recognize.  The tracks of equipment will often deposit seeds from other areas that they have been working in.  6 acres of quality hardwood forest has been turned into somewhat of a wasteland.  Companies have been back numerous times dealing with slips due to topography.  Currently trying to get someone (Tallgrass is now the owner) to deal with some runoff ruts that are too large for my 30 horsepower 4x4 tractor to safely traverse to mow.

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You can see what the "topsoil" they put back consists of.

I'm also in one of the Bluegrass proposed routes that will slice diagonally through yet more forestland.  Needless to say, they can pound sand unless they start throwing around vacation cottage with Ferarri money.

Permalink Reply by TERRY L MILLER on June 30, 2014 at 6:09am

you people would complain if you hung with a new rope, this gas and oil exploration is the best thing that has happened to this area since you let your worthless ex. pres. sell all our steel mills. I had to go west and work for many yrs. because of that. the ones that write theses post I bet don't own a acre of ground and are the ones that keep voting on all the levy's and tax increases. shut your dam pie hole.

I own 35 acres in northern Jefferson county and they can come any time and drill right in the middle of my living room, that's how sure I am of all this. stop raising my property taxes you s.o.b.'s till I start getting my royalty checks and then yes you will get your cut then.  deal with the change people, when it's all said and done, all you will see I a few pipes sticking out of the ground here and there and if you don't like that, move to the city.. ha ha I sure feel better now. bring the drilling rigs on and drill.

Permalink Reply by Appalachian on July 1, 2014 at 1:47am

Can't speak for the other posters, but my experience with pipelines was/is unsatisfactory.  The land I have is the most precious thing to me after my family.  I am the third generation of my family to have this piece of ground and take great pride in my woodlands where I hunt, fish, gather mushrooms & ginseng, cut firewood, and sometimes just "go walking".  I'm sorry that you don't share the same sentiments for your land.

Permalink Reply by Mark on June 30, 2014 at 3:24pm

heres a aerial or a pipeline ROW

 

it's nice to document whats going on for couple hundred bucks per 1500ft 

Permalink Reply by Zack Jameson on July 1, 2014 at 2:05am

Beware of the landman working for the midstream companies. They are just as bad, if not worse then the landman you had to deal with when you signed your gas lease. Don't let them downplay the value of access and temp. work spaces. They will use any tactic in their bag of tricks to try to save money.

Permalink Reply by Mark on July 1, 2014 at 8:21am

OOPS

Here is the link

PIPELINE ROW VIDEO

here's the video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RG5ZIibLv4

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