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Office of Oil and Gas; Oil and Gas Wells; Administration; Enforcement
- W. Va. Code § 22-6-1— Definitions
- W. Va. Code § 22-6-2— Secretary – powers and duties generally; department records open to public; inspectors
- W. Va. Code § 22-6-2a— Oil and gas inspectors qualifications and salary
- W. Va. Code § 22-6-3— Findings and orders of inspectors concerning violations; determination of reasonable time for abatement; extensions of time for abatement; special inspections; notice of findings and orders
- W. Va. Code § 22-6-4— Review of findings and orders by director; special inspection; annulment, revision, etc., of order; notice
- W. Va. Code § 22-6-5— Requirements for findings, orders and notices; posting of findings and orders; judicial review of final orders of director
- W. Va. Code § 22-6-6— Permit required for well work; permit fee; application; soil erosion control plan
- W. Va. Code § 22-6-7— Water pollution control permits; powers and duties of the director; penalties
- W. Va. Code § 22-6-8— Permits not to be on flat well royalty leases; legislative findings and declarations; permit requirements
- W. Va. Code § 22-6-9— Notice to property owners
- W. Va. Code § 22-6-10— Procedure for filing comments; certification of notice
- W. Va. Code § 22-6-11— Review of application; issuance of permit in the absence of objections; copy of permits to county assessor
- W. Va. Code § 22-6-12— Plats prerequisite to drilling or fracturing wells; preparation and contents; notice and information furnished to coal operators, owners or lessees; issuance of permits; performance bonds or securities in lieu thereof; bond forfeiture
- W. Va. Code § 22-6-13— Notice to coal operators, owners or lessees and director of intention to fracture certain other wells; contents of such notice; bond; permit required
- W. Va. Code § 22-6-14— Plats prerequisite to introducing liquids or waste into wells; preparation and contents; notice and information furnished to coal operators, owners or lessees and director; issuance of permits; performance bonds or security in lieu thereof
- W. Va. Code § 22-6-15— Objections to proposed drilling of deep wells and oil wells; objections to fracturing; notices and hearings; agreed locations or conditions; indication of changes on plats, etc.; issuance of permits
- W. Va. Code § 22-6-16— Objections to proposed drilling or converting for introducing liquids or waste into wells; notices and hearings; agreed location or conditions; indication of changes on plats, etc.; issuance of permits; docket of proceeding
- W. Va. Code § 22-6-17— Objections to proposed drilling of shallow gas wells; notice to chair of review board; indication of changes on plats; issuance of permits
- W. Va. Code § 22-6-18— Protective devices -- When well penetrates workable coal bed; when gas is found beneath or between workable coal beds
- W. Va. Code § 22-6-19— Same -- Continuance during life of well; dry or abandoned wells
- W. Va. Code § 22-6-20— Same -- When well is drilled through horizon of coalbed from which coal has been removed
- W. Va. Code § 22-6-21— Same -- Installation of fresh water casings
- W. Va. Code § 22-6-22— Well report, logs, core samples, and cuttings to be filed; confidentiality and permitted use; authority to promulgate rules; reporting of production data for horizontal wells
- W. Va. Code § 22-6-23— Plugging, abandonment and reclamation of well; notice of intention; bonds; affidavit showing time and manner
- W. Va. Code § 22-6-24— Methods of plugging well
- W. Va. Code § 22-6-25— Introducing liquid pressure into producing strata to recover oil contained therein
- W. Va. Code § 22-6-26— Performance bonds; corporate surety or other security
- W. Va. Code § 22-6-27— Cause of action for damages caused by explosions
- W. Va. Code § 22-6-28— Supervision by director over drilling and reclamation operations; complaints; hearings; appeals
- W. Va. Code § 22-6-29— Operating permit and processing fund; special reclamation fund; fees
- W. Va. Code § 22-6-29a— Oil and Gas Abandoned Well Plugging Fund
- W. Va. Code § 22-6-30— Reclamation requirements
- W. Va. Code § 22-6-31— Preventing waste of gas; plan of operation required for wasting gas in process of producing oil; rejection thereof
- W. Va. Code § 22-6-32— Right of adjacent owner or operator to prevent waste of gas; recovery of cost
- W. Va. Code § 22-6-33— Restraining waste
- W. Va. Code § 22-6-34— Offenses; penalties
- W. Va. Code § 22-6-35— Civil action for contamination or deprivation of fresh water source or supply; presumption
- W. Va. Code § 22-6-36— Declaration of oil and gas notice by owners and lessees of coal seams
- W. Va. Code § 22-6-37— Rules, orders and permits remain in effect
- W. Va. Code § 22-6-38— Application of article; exclusions
- W. Va. Code § 22-6-39— Injunctive relief
- W. Va. Code § 22-6-40— Appeal from order of issuance or refusal of permit to drill or fracture; procedure
- W. Va. Code § 22-6-41— Appeal from order of issuance or refusal of permit for drilling location for introduction of liquids or waste or from conditions of converting procedure