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2001 SESSION

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HB 2868 Virginia Gas and Oil Act; permit applications.

Introduced by: L. Preston Bryant, Jr. | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Virginia Gas and Oil Act; permit applications. Adds to current law the right for a coal operator to require the location of a proposed coalbed methane well to be moved to an alternate location not greater than 800 feet from the proposed location, provided the alternate location is on the same lease and within the same drilling unit. Provides a hearing before the Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy to resolve subsequent coalbed methane well location issues. Provides the location of a proposed well location or drilling unit within 2,500 feet of an existing well shall be refused unless objecting coal owners agree or unless the Department finds that the proposed location or unit will not unreasonably interfere with the safe recovery of coal, oil, gas, or coalbed methane gas as proposed or as may be modified by the Department to permit the safe recovery of the same. In an application for a permit to drill a coalbed methane gas well, the coal owner's consent to stimulate shall be deemed to be granted if the applicant has obtained the consent from any coal owner or coal owners holding at least 50 % interest in the acreage for which consent is required.


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