Is a Survey Platt required to be completed/provided before a Horizontal well can be drilled?
What is the process here?
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A unit survey is not required before a horizontal well is drilled. The requirement is that a unit survey plat is to be submitted by the operator to the state within 90 days of first production of the original unit well. The requirement is rarely enforced. I lobbied the OOC and the DNR and finally the governor's office in 2018 to enforce the regulation. That succeeded until Covid hit. The O&G industry lobbied for a moratorium which was granted in early 2020. Since then some operators continue to turn in delinquent surveys, others do not.
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