He tells you the well was owned by a small, independent operator but no one has been around for years. You talk to your new neighbor and he shows you an old pump-jack and brine tank located in a field on his property. Remarkably, they inform you that they have no record of any oil and gas well ever being drilled on the family farm. Who owns this equipment? Are they still operating the well? What if the tank is leaking? Can I remove this eyesore? Hoping to get some answers, you call the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection. ![]() There is no identification plate on the pipes or the tank. You remember your grandfather saying, “they have been there as long as I can remember.” Now that you own the farm, you walk that same field and see some pipes and valves protruding from the ground. As a young child, you recall walking through one of the fields with your grandfather as he pointed out the remnants of two old gas wells. ![]() ![]() Imagine you just inherited a 200-acre farm in rural Butler County that has been in your family for decades.
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