When Cabot Oil & Gas offered a lease for the natural gas under their land a few years ago, saying that it might drill a single horizontal well nearby, they weren't worried.

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Vincent Signorotti of CalEnergy, which owns ten plants around the sea, is rather looking forward to the prospect of more dry land on which to drill.

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According to them, it currently takes 300 days to obtain a permit to drill on federal land versus 10 days in North Dakota.

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You can only have the right to drill on the land if the person who holds the title agreed to let you do so.

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