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Comment by Joe Baran on July 20, 2010 at 9:04am

Any one have information on leasing activity in Cambria County?

Comment by CJK on June 18, 2010 at 1:55am

Notice of Meeting:
Meeting by third party water testing company:
"TESTING YOUR WELL WATER---A LICENSED PROFESSIONAL
GEOLOGIST ANSWERS QUESTIONS"

Are you concerned about the impact gas drilling could have on your water sources? And want to learn why and how you should have your water sources tested by a third party.

Speaker: George E. Turner, P.G.
Website: geturner.tripod.com


Place: Sheshequin-Ulster Recreation Center
Ulster, PA

Date: June 18th, 2010

Time: 7PM – Short presentation, followed by Questions & Answers, Mr. Turner will stay until all questions are answered.

Everyone is welcome!

Comment by Robin Fehrenbach Scala on June 4, 2010 at 1:00pm

The Wyoming County Group did not do a very good job of getting the word out that they existed. I was online since early 2008 and didn't hear of the group until a neighbor told me. Even then there was no easy way to contact them, the communication was terrible, people got annoyed. Several times I inquired about joining and was told they were not accepting new members (I still have the emails) so I can understand how people were not part of the group when they could have been. Too many issues surfaced, people got "attitude" when they should have gotten help. Oh well, such is life.

Comment by david thorpe on June 4, 2010 at 12:30pm

In my travels in and around the Falls neighborhood I find there are several folks in the greater Falls, Harding, Exeter, North Moreland area that did not initially sign with the Wyoming County Group last year for a variety of reasons. Most are not large land owners, 20-100 acres each is the norm. Problem is most of these folks aren't "plugged in" and expect someone to come knocking on their door and offer them some exhorbtatant amount of money.

Comment by John Reed on May 24, 2010 at 11:27am

Yes Ebergard. Williams interest right now in our area is northern Columbia. It is my understanding that the Harding area interest is low due to it's proximity to the Lackawanna Syclinorium.

Comment by Eberhard Brendan Carroll on May 24, 2010 at 5:20am

Thank you for the comments. The operators I am working with are Cordillera Energy Partners and Olmar Energy. Olmar Energy is awaiting funding before they move forward. My situation is slightly different than that of most people in NEPA. I work as a sales engineer for a service company, Calfrac, in Denver. Generally it will come up as a "by the way conversation" with many of these operators that my family and I have land in the Marcellus. I work with the completions, reservoir, and drilling engineers directly, there are no landmen involved. There is mixed interest in our property mostly depending on proximity to the given operators current acerage.

I worked as an in house engineer in encana's office for two years and have a pretty good relationship there. John you are correct, they are not interested in the Harding area at this time. As for Williams I have never discussed the possibility of leasing with the, but it is my understanding that their area is more to the west.

The operators I mentioned earlier are interested in the Marcellus and do not currently have any holdings. A large block of continuous acreage would be beneficial for them to properly develop this reservoir. What I would like to do is form a landowners association in Harding. I would also like to align with the established landowners associations to establish a larger acreage offering. Anyone interested please let me know.

Thank you,
Eberhard

Comment by John Reed on May 23, 2010 at 11:32am

I asked around for you Eberhard. I don't believe there are are any groups accepting acreage in the Harding area. I may be wrong but I asked several people. The Falls are you could probably get into a group.

Comment by John Reed on May 23, 2010 at 1:33am

Eberhard, scratch that date THe meeting has been postponed until June 1st.

Comment by John Reed on May 22, 2010 at 11:04pm

Eberhard, you are more than welcome to come to our Landowners Meetings. Out next meeting is on Tuesday, May 25th at 6:00 PM in the Benton High School Auditorium. These metting are open to the public, and you are under no obligation to join the group. You can simply show up, listen and ask questions. The landowner group is the Columbia County Land Owners Coalition. The areas we have include all of Columbia and most of Luzerne County. The meetings are very informative. There is no charge at anytime to anyone. We are basically just a group of concernced landowners with no ties to gas companies. Our focus is to educate landowners and to obtain a fair and protective lease agreement. The website is columbiacoalition.org

The most active companies in our group acreage areas are Encana and William Oil and Gas. Can you share the companies you refer to in your post ?

If you get close to signing I would suggest you review the lease agreements used by various landowner groups from around NEPA as a bare minimum baseline. Not so much the financial terms but the protective terms. Also, obviously do no utilize the standard boiler plate company lease. You should also seek a good oil/gas attorney. I would absolutely ask any company to do predrilling water testing for a mimimum of 1 square mile from any proposed well site. Also, periodic post drilling testing is a must. Make sure you get access to the test results so you have a baseline. It would also be a great idea if "you indepently" have your water tested prior and post drilling. The predrilling testing should be done as close to the drilling date as possible. Ther are many other protective terms to talk about going forward.

Comment by Eberhard Brendan Carroll on May 22, 2010 at 6:34am

Good Afternoon Everyone,

I would like to offer some advice in response to CJK's comments about not rushing the development of this play. One thing you can do to ensure that drilling is not rushed on your property is to offer a longer lease term. Companies will drill acerage to hold their leases, even if it is not economical to drill at that time. Consider that the going rate for property now is around 5k an acre and 20% royalties on a 3-5 year lease. The leases vary, perhaphs they need a commerical well within 5 years, perhaphs you just have to spud within 5 years, either way if the operator hasn't meet that requirement within 5 years they will loose their lease. If you don't want drilling rushed on your property offer a 10 year lease. For this exchange you can probably negotiate a higher upfront bonus payment, or more protections. OF course if you are a gambler you can always sign the 3-5 year deal hope they don't get to you and re-lease once the inital one expires. The bonus and / or royalties may be much better in 3-5 years. That's up to YOU.

Now since this is a landowners forum I would like to see if their is any interest in Harding PA to group together some acerage (Falls as well, I understand you are ahead of the game there, hell anywhere in Luzerne county.) I am currently working with two smaller comapnies based in the Denver area who are interested in the Marcellus play. Both companies are willing to work with us in regards to safeguarding our water. Some ideas I have had are mentioned in previous posts, they have been accepted or even suggested by the companies I'm working with (it's great working with the independents.) Marie any advice you have will be welcome. John you are right we are in the drivers seat here, so lets work together and do this right.

Look forward to hearing from everyone.

Eberhard

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