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H.R. 435, The Study of Ways to Improve the Accuracy of the Collection of Federal Oil, Condensate, and Natural Gas Royalties Act of 2007 (6 comments ↓)
H.R. 435 would provide for a study by the National Academy of Engineering regarding improving the accuracy of collection of royalties on production of oil, condensate, and natural gas under leases of Federal lands and Indian lands.
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The loopholes for the natural gas storage companies need modified. This bill does not cover FERC guidelines for approving gas storage which can take additional native gas since meters are not used to measure any overage. This is either an oversight or an intentional setup for legalized theft. Meters at injection withdrawal wells are essential to compensating private landowners. Add a clause to protect private property owners in all gas storage fields. FERC needs to ensure gas fields are truly depleted, meter each injection withdrawal well and make sure all natural gas formations have already been produced before authorizing a storage field
clearville
If the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) does not review whether gas storage fields are truly depleted, they are not protecting the private property owners! Private companies go to FERC and take an oath that the production wells are depleted, then they pay landowners what they estimate are in the wells. These companies do not meter the wells and can take additional native gas without compensation the landowner. This is unAmerican and legalized theft. We want meters on wells in a gas storage field and we want paid for any additional native gas which is taken underneath our land. Put this in your bill for us!
forget its.
forget it, stop fighting, the system is designed this way and it is a losing battle, no one wants to hear it with the economy like it is now, all they want is each for their own.
Ladybug
FERC Docket CP08-15 at Elibrary is a prime example of how a private company has been all of the above rights to private property. The latest information in this docket shows the company got a certificate, landowners found the Marcellus Shale was over the storage field and cannot be produced; landowners will not have meters to see what is withdrawn from the formations; the latest is reported among the group is FERC was told by Steckman Ridge (Spectra Energy a spin off of Duke Energy) that the five wells which lasted two years were depleted. Steckman sent landowners letters from their attorney stating the wells are capable of producing. FERC will need to make a decision of what is in the best public needs: Their job is to produce natural gas. Watch this docket at FERC which shows the problem and see if FERC will correct the injustice.
alice
I think the problem at FERC and gas storage fields is that they only look at environmental issues, there doesn't appear to be a department knowledgeable in gas storage fields. It appears these private companies come to FERC with their project plan, if gas leases has storage in them, then the case is clear, they can do a storage field. What FERC overlooks is the fact that some landowners did not have gas storage in their gas leases. FERC does not realize or have the staff experience to know if meters are not installed, additional native gas can be withdrawn above what landowners are forced to accept in a court of law. FERC needs a department which reviews projects where landowners have gas leases with no storage then make these companies place meters on the wells, give landowners statements and pay them royalty on the additional native gas they withdraw. The new technology in drilling produces more native gas and landowners are not compensated for the gas! Landowners are cheated!
firefly
Ferc is not the property owners friend. They do their environmental accessment, they make a good show but what you don't see underground is where they get the property owner. Drillbits are suppose to go to the target in storage fields. FERC is designed to not meter each well to ensure integrity and performance is monitored, all they care about is getting the job done, listen to the company and forget the private land owner. No meters on wells, no statements, that's the way to go! Then I see you have or had the Marcellus and they will take that from you. They will twist the story to fit the profits of the company. This was the coolest agency ever to be setup by big oil to steal native gas in storage fields. No one understands what is going on. It is like one of those Enron stories. Looks like Spectra Energy has a history, a big spin off after a Duke Energy Whistle blower told about unreported profits.