§22-6-39. Injunctive Relief
(a) In addition to other remedies, and aside from various penalties provided by law, whenever it appears to the director that any person is violating or threatening to violate any provision of this article, any order or final decision of the director, or any lawful rule promulgated hereunder, the director may apply in the name […]
§22-6-40. Appeal From Order of Issuance or Refusal of Permit to Drill or Fracture; Procedure
Any party to the proceeding under section fifteen of this article or section seven, article eight, chapter twenty-two-c of this code adversely affected by the issuance of a drilling permit or to the issuance of a fracturing permit or the refusal of the director to grant a drilling permit or fracturing permit is entitled to […]
§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
Any party to the proceedings under section sixteen of this article adversely affected by the order of issuance of a drilling permit or to the issuance of a fracturing permit or the refusal of the director to grant a drilling permit or fracturing permit is entitled to judicial review thereof. All of the pertinent provisions […]
§22-6-38. Application of Article; Exclusions
This article shall not apply to or affect any well work permitted prior to the effective date of this article under former article one, chapter twenty-two-b of this code, unless such well is, after completion, whether such completion is prior to or subsequent to the effective date of this article, deepened subsequent to the effective […]
§22-6-29a. Oil and Gas Abandoned Well Plugging Fund
(a)(1) This section may be referred to as the Oil and Gas Abandoned Well Plugging Fund Act. There is established within the Treasury of the State of West Virginia the special use fund known as the Oil and Gas Abandoned Well Plugging Fund. (2) The Oil and Gas Abandoned Well Plugging Fund shall be administered […]
§22-6-30. Reclamation Requirements
The operator of a well shall reclaim the land surface within the area disturbed in siting, drilling, completing or producing the well in accordance with the following requirements: (a) Within six months after the completion of the drilling process, the operator shall fill all the pits for containing muds, cuttings, salt water and oil that […]
§22-6-31. Preventing Waste of Gas; Plan of Operation Required for Wasting Gas in Process of Producing Oil; Rejection Thereof
Natural gas shall not be permitted to waste or escape from any well or pipeline, when it is reasonably possible to prevent such waste, after the owner or operator of such gas, or well, or pipeline, has had a reasonable length of time to shut in such gas in the well, or make the necessary […]
§22-6-32. Right of Adjacent Owner or Operator to Prevent Waste of Gas; Recovery of Cost
If the owner or operator of any such well shall neglect or refuse to drill, case and equip, or plug and abandon, or shut in and conserve from waste the gas produced therefrom, as required to be done and performed by the preceding sections of this article, for a period of twenty days after a […]
§22-6-33. Restraining Waste
Aside from and in addition to the imposition of any penalties under this article, it shall be the duty of any circuit court in the exercise of its equity jurisdiction to hear and determine any action which may be filed to restrain the waste of natural gas in violation of this article, and to grant […]
§22-6-34. Offenses; Penalties
(a) Any person or persons, firm, partnership, partnership association or corporation who willfully violates any provision of this article or any rule or order promulgated hereunder shall be subject to a civil penalty not exceeding $2,500. Each day a violation continues after notice by the division constitutes a separate offense. The penalty shall be recovered […]