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Insights

What Your County’s Permit History Tells Local Landowners
A county’s oil and gas permit history can reveal far more than where wells already exist. It may show whether development is expanding, slowing, shifting…
Drilling density in the Marcellus and Haynesville
Drilling density is one of the clearest ways to compare shale development, but the number of wells in a region rarely tells the whole story. A productive basin…
How EPA Rules Are Reshaping Shale Drilling Permits
New federal environmental requirements are changing the way shale operators prepare, submit, and defend drilling permit applications. The effect is broader…
Tracing Conflicting Mineral Interests Within a Single Section
A single land section can contain several mineral owners, overlapping leases, depth restrictions, pooled units, and severed rights created decades earlier.…
A Practical Start With Shale Navigator’s Free Trial
Shale Navigator is designed to bring several kinds of oil and gas information into one map-based workspace. Instead of searching separately for drilling…
Mapping the Niobrara Shale for Drilling and Property Research
The Niobrara Shale is one of the most important oil and natural gas formations in the central United States. Its development is concentrated across parts of…
Understanding royalty interest calculations in lease reports
Lease reports can contain several numbers that look similar but represent very different economic rights. Royalty rate, mineral ownership, net acres, working…
The Delaware Basin’s Permian Surge: Permits and Production
The Delaware Basin has become one of the most closely watched oil and natural gas regions in the United States. Spanning southeastern New Mexico and West…
How to Export Permit Data for Spreadsheet Analysis
Permit records can reveal where drilling activity is developing, which operators are active, and how quickly projects are moving through the approval process.…
What Landowners Should Know About Forced Pooling in the Utica
Utica Shale development has brought drilling activity, lease offers, pipeline construction, and mineral-rights negotiations to many parts of eastern Ohio. For…


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