By Jim Fuquay
Feb. 25, 2009
Texas Railroad Commission examiners say Chesapeake Energy should temporarily plug the portion of a well the company knowingly drilled too close to unleased property in east Fort Worth, a move that observers said could prove costly for the company.
Chesapeake was granted a drilling permit by the commission to drill a natural gas well southwest of the intersection of Meadowbrook Drive and Cooks Lane. The horizontal portion, or lateral, of the well eventually extended nearly twice as far as the permit allowed, and 15 unleased lots fell less than 330 feet from the well bore, the minimum distance allowed in the Barnett Shale without a special exception from the Railroad Commission.
The unleased properties include Fort Worth’s Eastbrook Park.
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