seismic testing

[ohio dick]

they are testing for gas in utica shale.the hole county is layed out in a grid, they want to come through and drill holes to set charges in.they offered 3 dollars an acre is this fair and is there anthing i should note in contract.

 

[Janicholson]

per 1000 Cubic Feet of gas!!! (I know it is for the testing) find out what mineral rights you have. Jim

 

[LenND]

Is this an oil company or government project? If government then it is to get an idea what kind of soil or rock you have under your property. Then there probably is no contract just permission to come on your land. If it is an oil company then you need a contract maybe__ unless the tests are different than years back all a siesmic test is--is the explosion tells them what kind material is under the ground and involves no minerals or rights. Is the money for all your acres or for each acre where they test?

 

[SweetFeet]

Better read the "fine print" very carefully. We had several wind operations coming around to bug the dickens out of us - wanting to come on our land for the "initial testing phase". But in the fine print... if you had signed their papers and they found your place to be a good wind location - you had already signed away ALL FUTURE rights/controls over your own land (and coincidently, your first born child) when you signed the papers for that "initial phase". They could then do whatever they want, however they want, when and wherever they want on your land. [If it sounds too good to be true... it probably is.]

 

[Tx Jim]

Sweetfeet is correct about reading fine print. The seismograph dummies don't mind driving across your property after a 5" rain and cutting DEEP RUTS!!!!!!! I hope petroleum drilling around you doesn't bring earthquakes similar to North Texas

 

[the tractor vet]

Well for a few of us in Ohio we just say no you ain't going to drill holes in our field and set off charges. They keep coming back and we keep running them off . We do not want a bunch of cement plugs in the ground as ya know what will happen over time frost will lift them and we will be the ones hitting them with the plow or chisel and breaking things. So the answer is NO ya ain't coming on the place not for three bucks or three thousand per hole .

 

[bison]

(quoted from post at 10:09:16 01/12/12) they are testing for gas in utica shale.the hole county is layed out in a grid, they want to come through and drill holes to set charges in.they offered 3 dollars an acre is this fair and is there anthing i should note in contract.

If you happen to have a waterwell for your cattle or domestic use on your land i would tell them to go pound sand cause you may end up with a Effed up well.(To many horror stories around).I would certainly not let them come within a mile of a well.

Also, $3/acre is a laugh.They offered me $2000 a mile for seismic thumping,i told them to take a hike.

 

[Tony in Mass.]

Thank you Bison. Water is the first thing for survival, and the last thing anyone thinks about. All these big lease payments people are going out and buying toys with... they maybe should save for another place to live when the well is condemned - and the whole place is worthless.... 'cept fer good deer huntin'.....

 

[RayP(MI)]

They make small, shallow holes, use small explosive charges. Some companies have a heavy tractor that has a pad underneath, just drop pad and thump a few times on the surface. Doesn't do much damage, will probably be undetectable in a month or so. They will bury microphones in small shallow holes as well, connected with cables back to the recording van. Probably biggest problem would be tracks from driving on your fields. They came through Michigan a few years ago, I failed to sign their papers, and they just worked around me. Most of their work is done on roadside right-of-way. Here a day or two, and gone. Suspect their data is recorded in a private library somewhere, just waiting for someone to buy a copy of it. In other words, just prospecting.

 

[Anonymous-0]

About 25% of all wells in Pennsylvania have detectable amounts of methane. Of course after watching a totally biased "documentary", some people assume that's because of hydraulic fracturing. But it's been that way for as long as wells have been drilled.

 

[Rollie NE PA]

When our area was tested, they did everything from the road right of way.
The rates for a gas lease is all over the place. I have seen anywhere from 12.50 to 6,500.00 per acre. The royalities vary.

 

[ohio dick]

they are making maps to locate gas deposits. no rights to drill for gas chesapeke owns those rights.just dosnt seem like much money for the 47 holes they want to drill.

 

[John_PA]

Dawson uses thumper trucks and they run (extension cord looking) wiring through in a grid. the truck runs down teh road and shakes the crap out of everything. if they don't use that, don't sign anything. there are better technologies and reccomend them to Dawson. Dawson uses heklicopters to put out the line, with foot crews that string them. no impact to the land. anything else is unacceptable. seriously...


call me if you want to talk about it. just give me your email and I will phone you.

 

[Tx Jim]

Dawson was the seismic thumper that rutted up the fields/pastures down here a few years back. They ran 3 thumper trucks in a row. Not only was there ruts but serious depressions(holes) from thumping. Some of the thumper trucks had to be pulled out to the road with a BIG DOZER.

 

[yallardeere]

nope....years ago they paid 100 per hole plus damages......remember they will ruin water wells...

 

[John_PA]

just saw a new contract, it was for $5 per acres, plus damages...

ASk for $5 at least, and you must be specific when signing about what can be considered damage. What I saw, they agreed to pay for damaged crops, aquifers, fences, field disturbances, agri-impact(including any drillings left on top soil, crops dead downhill from drilling, and arboretum. Basically, if it's alive before they got there, it has to be alive when they leave, or they replace it.


What part of OH are in, if you dont' mind me asking?