A00305
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
247
Session of
2019
INTRODUCED BY OBERLANDER, FRITZ, JAMES, MILLARD, BERNSTINE,
ZIMMERMAN, EVERETT, RYAN, O'NEAL, BENNINGHOFF, KAUFER, DUSH,
HERSHEY AND PYLE, JANUARY 28, 2019
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES AND ENERGY,
JANUARY 28, 2019
AN ACT
Amending Title 58 (Oil and Gas) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
Statutes, in development, further providing for well permits.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 3211 of Title 58 of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes is amended by adding a subsection to read:
ยง 3211. Well permits.
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(n) Cross unit drilling.--If an operator has the right to
drill an oil and or gas well on separate leases or units, the
operator may drill and produce a well that traverses, by
horizontal drilling, more than one lease or unit, if the
operator reasonably allocates production from the well among the
leases or units related to each lessor's acreage in the unit and
the traversing well is not expressly prohibited by the terms of
a lease. Nothing in this section shall authorize a producer an
operator to drill or produce natural gas an oil or gas well that
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is not subject to a valid lease and or royalty agreement with a
landowner lessor .
Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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