Greensburg, Latrobe, Murrysville: one of the few Pennsylvania counties with real deep Utica development, on top of one of the oldest gas fields in the country.
Westmoreland County is one of the more interesting places in Pennsylvania to own minerals, because two things are true at once: it sits outside the Marcellus wet gas sweet spot, and it is one of the few Pennsylvania counties with genuine deep Utica development. CNX, EQT, XPR Resources, Olympus Energy, Huntley and Huntley, Snyder Brothers, and Infinity Natural Resources are all active, and deep Utica wells in southwest Pennsylvania have been reported outperforming Marcellus on rate of return.
That makes the depth and formation language in your lease the highest value question on your tract. An older Marcellus era instrument may or may not capture the Point Pleasant, and an interest with unencumbered deep rights is worth materially more. We read it first.
The county also carries an enormous conventional history. The Murrysville gas field, discovered in 1878, is one of the oldest commercial gas fields in the country, and roughly 9,700 wells have been drilled here against only about 380 active. Century old leases and reservations remain of record.
Two title traps recur. Pittsburgh seam coal severances are pervasive, and under U.S. Steel v. Hoge coalbed methane belongs to the coal owner rather than the gas owner. And underground gas storage is common in western Pennsylvania, which can encumber a formation independently of production.
Suburban parcel fragmentation also produces many small cotenancy interests. We buy those, with no minimum. Send the lease and a deed.
Productive but explicitly outside the wet gas sweet spot, which sits west in Greene and Washington.
Genuinely developed here, which is rare in Pennsylvania. Infinity Natural Resources lists deep dry Utica across Westmoreland, Armstrong, and Indiana, and CNX and Olympus affiliated operators have drilled it in the Westmoreland to Allegheny corridor.
An enormous historic well population, roughly 9,700 wells drilled against only about 380 active.
Wherever your tract sits in Westmoreland County, we will research it free and value it with the work shown.
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