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Permalink Reply by Michelle Hoffman on August 29, 2014 at 7:51am

Hilcorp Energy Co. announced Friday it has withdrawn its application for forced pooling.

The company stated in a press release that while it believes it would have prevailed in hearings set for October, it has withdrawn its application for well spacing units in order to move forward with operations “in the best interest of its lessors in Lawrence and Mercer Counties.”

Hearings had been rescheduled for late October before the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection after several postponements. The question of whether landowners who refused to sign oil and gas drilling leases could be forced do so under under the state oil and gas law was at the heart of the case.

Hilcorp said it filed written notice to the DEP of the withdrawal Friday.

Reporter Mary Grzebieniak will have complete details in the Weekend edition of The News.

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Permalink Reply by Trapper on August 29, 2014 at 9:52am

IMHO a very judicious decision. Drill around them and laugh as they weep over their loss as their neighbors revel!

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Permalink Reply by Trapper on August 29, 2014 at 2:32pm

The New Castle News seems to push the anti drilling agenda. There are those who are all too happy to stir up trouble for a news story. These are the same types who move to the country and before you know it they are whining about the 5th generation farmer spreading manure on HIS fields upwind from their half million dollar "quaint country home". The same fields his great great grandfather plowed with an ox. Biff and Buffy need to go back where they came from.

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Permalink Reply by 015334grltd9m on August 29, 2014 at 4:05pm

Trap, we manage one of the Hanni's acreage across the line in PA.  Just spoke with him, he lives in FL.  and informs me that he has been contacted for month's about being in a 440acre unit in Pulaski, also contacted about the upcoming forcedpooling hearing.  I notified him that it was withdrawn by Hilcorp.  So now he is as with us in the dark what plans there are for his acreage.

Watch new permits start popping up across the line back into Ohio.

 

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Permalink Reply by Trapper on August 29, 2014 at 4:29pm

Sad that someone with just a few acres can ruin it for his neighbors. They should sue the holdouts for lost compensation.

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Permalink Reply by 015334grltd9m on August 30, 2014 at 12:55am

bc331, whatever your name is. Property does not have to be in the owners name, it could be in corporations, most of mine is.  

With all the crap you be throwing at me, no help coming from me.  Bad Karma goes around bro.  I'll tell you what, I'll give you more info. if you come out of the closet :') 

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Permalink Reply by 015334grltd9m on August 30, 2014 at 1:03am

With all the leases Hilcorp has in eastern Mahoning, they may find it friendlier that WPA.  This is what happens when good people do nothing and allow the unproductive to rise and throw wrenches around.  I bet you those in WPA, who didn't want to help anyone but themselves will be smacked down like some in Poland after the earthquakes.

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Permalink Reply by Trapper on August 30, 2014 at 2:24am

If memory serves, I believe Hilcorp has permits for something like 13 pads and 70 wells in Lawrence County. Hard to imagine that 2 or 3 malcontents will drive Hilcorp into the arms of Ohio. Don't hold your breath waiting for an Exodus from PA. I don't know why they aren't more active in Mahoning. Maybe the e-quake thing,idk.

BC331: Hopefully the unit in question will still happen. Looks like a test of the old "we'll just drill around you" concept is in order!

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Permalink Reply by Michelle Hoffman on August 30, 2014 at 3:58am

Hilcorp is not stopping here in Pulaski. I'm sitting on my front porch listening to activity going on near the pipeline 200 feet away from me that will be connecting the well pad 1400 feet behind me to the well pad 1500 feet in front of me. Just going to mean more well pads to cover those same acres of land. I know for a fact that there is already one permit issued to HIlcorp by the PA DEP as an alternative to the forced drilling sites. And I believe there will be more to come.

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Permalink Reply by Trapper on August 30, 2014 at 4:44am

Thanks Michelle. Where there's a will there is a way!

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Permalink Reply by CRUDE on August 30, 2014 at 2:34am

The well endowed Humility Sisters at Villa Maria

with 755 non-participating and non-contiguous acres

have just lit a votive candle

to the heavenly driller.

What about their many poor neighbors?

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Permalink Reply by Trapper on August 30, 2014 at 2:50am

Perhaps the Holy Father will dip into his coffers and compensate his neighbors for their losses. That would be the christian thing to do....wouldn't it?

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