How to Determine if a Permit Application Involving Your Land is on File

Early this year, an Ohio court ruled that filing for a permit constituted “operations” sufficient enough to extend a Chesapeake Appalachia lease past its primary term. Since learning of this, we at Fleased did a bit of digging on the DEC’s Oil & Gas Searchable Database and discovered that NY has 67 outstanding permit applications for gas development in the Marcellus Shale and 14 for the Utica Shale. If a similar case were raised in NY and won by the gas company, these permit applications could be used as cause for lease extension…To read more, check out our latest Fleased News!