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Permalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant on October 19, 2022 at 14:17

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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