Uniontown, Connellsville, Masontown: coke country, where coal severances and the coalbed methane ownership rule matter more than the drilling does.
Fayette County is the Connellsville coke region, and its mineral story is a coal story that happens to involve gas.
The Marcellus is present but modest, trending dry to lean rather than liquids rich, with the real wet gas fairway west in Greene and Washington. Drilling has effectively stopped: roughly 289 active wells out of about 5,000 drilled, zero permits on file, and about 4.5 million Mcf in a recent month, roughly 0.7 percent of Pennsylvania gas. EQT CHAP holds the legacy Chevron Appalachia position, with Diversified and XTO on the conventional and coalbed methane side.
What actually decides ownership here is coal. Under U.S. Steel v. Hoge, coalbed methane in place belongs to the coal owner rather than the oil and gas owner, and 19th century coal severances run through nearly every Fayette chain. Layered on top is the Dunham Rule, under which a Pennsylvania deed reserving minerals without naming oil or gas presumptively does not reserve them. Between the two, what a Fayette County family actually owns is very often not what it believes, in either direction. We read the instruments and tell you.
Fayette also has high orphan and abandoned well density with active DEP enforcement, which lengthens diligence on a sale. We deal with that rather than discounting your price for it.
Send the deed and any lease you have. We will tell you what you own, what it is worth, and whether selling makes sense at all.
Modest development. Gas character trends dry to lean; the true liquids rich fairway sits west in Greene and Washington.
Extensive, and the ownership question below is the reason this matters.
A very large historic well population, roughly 5,000 wells drilled against only about 289 active.
Wherever your tract sits in Fayette County, we will research it free and value it with the work shown.
Free, no obligation, and no pressure. We reply within one business day, usually faster.
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