The original steel pipe gas line that services gas wells in my brothers area started leaking. I think they were 6 inch dia. Since some of the wells quit producing they didn,t need a whole new 6 inch pipeline. They just shoved plastic line about 3 or 4 inch diameter thru the inside of the old steel pipe so they still could recover the wells that are still producing. . The line was blue. Around here land owners were paid between $4000.00 to $5000.00 an acre to lease thier land for the shale gas. If your land already has a conventional well the present lease holder can retain the land below the present well then the landowner doesn,t get the bonus. If the well quits producing the lease with the well owner has to relinquish the lease. So i think the owner of the wells put that blue line in so he could retain the lease. So in pennsylvania the landowner gets free gas from the well that is on his property.
Yup my buddy bought a house in PA with a gas well.
Gas was free for many years until the pipe broke and they had to prove ownership to have them come fix it so he could continue getting free gas.
Turns out some girl inherited the well from her grandmother who passed away like 20 years ago, who lived on the property as a child.
The girl was going to sell the rights to the well for like $3000, but then someone in her family got smart and told her to demand more money, to the tune of $10,000
Finally they agreed on $100/mo.
My buddy got tired of paying the $100 to her after several months so he just brought in propane and stopped the monthly payments.
About a year later she had a baby, needed money and settled for $1000.
He didn’t want to squeeze her, but the gas well rights where supposed to come with the house.
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