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James NorthrupCooperstown
Compulsory Pooling
Separating fracks from fiction
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Oil Field Unitization - Original Intent
Oil wells tap common pools Wells can drain adjacent property
Better to pool into common well
Essentially voluntary
Not your usual well
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Original Purpose For Pooling
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Without Pooling
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One well taps unitized pool
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Forced Pooling = Caution
Most states oversee unitization
Forced pooling rarely invoked in Texas
Reasons to opt out
environmental
financial
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Not Applicable to Horizontal Wells
Shale gas low permeability
Cannot drain adjacent property
have to frack it to drain it
run lateral under adjacent property
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Horizontal Pooling Illegal
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Geology (& Politics) of Well Spacing
Spacing based on maximumarea drained
Shale gas 40+/- acres from well bore
NY shale gas spacing = 640 acres
Why so large ?
politics - not geology based on length of the laterals
compels un-drained owners into wells
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NY Compulsory Pooling Law
NY law amended in 2005 60% + can force neighbors into well
Can be applied to horizontal wells
DEC condemns adjacent landowners Frackers use it to get 640
acres
private eminent domain of mineral rights
http://www.un-naturalgas.org/Is%20your%20unleased%20property%20facing%20200908181.pdf
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Pooling Without Land Use Controls
384 + acres to start Adjacent 256 acres condemned into well
No signing bonus for condemned
Well fracked underneath any land use house, water well, daycare
center, school
http://www.propublica.org/article/forced-pooling-when-landowners-cant-say-no-to-drilling
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Forced Pooling Without Land Use
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Pooling a Subdivison . . .
http://www.star-telegram.com/2011/07/14/3222593/natural-gas-industry-changes-tactics.html#article
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Prohibit Forced Horizontal Pooling
Horizontal pooling should not be allowed
achieves no public purpose partial condemnation of rights
Pooling only applicable to vertical wells
no rational for horizontal drilling
Clarify the NYS law
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Support Home Rule
Support Home Rule in Albany get your rep to support
or replace your state rep / senator
Not your usual well
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Land Use Resources
Land Plans Nan [email protected]
Municipal Regs. Helen [email protected]
http://my.brainshark.com/Prohibit-Fracking-Through-Zoning-926534928
http://my.brainshark.com/Land-Use-Planning-to-Protect-Your-Town-482597169
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Local Initiative Resources
Town Petitions and Surveys
Julie Huntsman - [email protected]
Shale Gas Presentations
Chip Northrup - [email protected]
http://my.brainshark.com/Prohibit-Fracking-In-Your-Town-872341386
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Now Go Get Busy
