Land and Environmental Services

EMATS' Land & Environmental Services offers professional land services, including title and state records research, contract evaluations, right-of-way and royalty negotiations, and litigation support.

We perform a full range of assessments, studies and evaluations to comply with the national environmental policy act, and prepare and file appropriate applications for required environmental permits (state and/or federal) and prepare follow-up reports.

Our technical support services carry out a number of functions, including soil surveys, air quality modeling, gas analysis and ground water baseline surveys.

Land & Environmental Services

Professional Land Services

• Research title, run sheets and provide curative
• Research BLM and state records
• Research WOGCC logs and files
• Provide title memorandum
• Provide lease mineral, right-of-way and royalty negotiations and procurement
• Review/evaluate, buy/sell contracts for lease acquisitions, oil and gas joint operating agreements, gas gathering proposals and electrical contract agreements
• Negotiate/obtain easements, right-of-ways and surface use agreements
• Provide litigation support through document preparation and expert witness testimony
• Plot/map deeds - surrounding and adjoining property (mineral and surface)

National Environmental Policy Act Ð Compliance Services

• Environmental impact assessments
• Regulatory compliances
• Land use and environmental permitting
• Mitigation planning
• Environmental field studies
• Water quality analyses
• Emissions control evaluations
• Wetland investigation and delineations

Environmental Regulatory Permitting

• Prepare/file appropriate applications for required permits, state and/or federal, and follow-up reports
• Prepare/provide NPDES permits to the DEQ and required water permits to the state engineer and WOGCC
• Prepare/file federal plan of developments
• Prepare/file water management plans
• Prepare air quality permits and submit to the DEQ
• Prepare storm drainage permits
• Environmental monitoring for the gas industry

Technical Support Services

• File sundry notices, well completion reports and monthly report of operations
• Prepare regulatory accounting and technical support per well or per project
• Soil surveys, classification and mapping
• Vegetation inventories and mapping
• Air quality modeling
• Engineering for reservoirs/roads
• Gas chromatography/gas analysis
• H2S monitoring
• Water well/ground water baseline surveys

Property Management

• Multi-tenant industrial space and residential tracts owned and managed by EMATS

Virginia - Russell and Tazewell Counties

• Industrial and residential tracts
• 41+ acres totaling 220,000 sq. ft.
• 6+ acres totaling 15,000 sq. ft.
• Industrial space includes overhead cranes, warehousing, loading docks, three-phase power, metal fabrication, paint booths, easy access, ample parking

North Carolina - Polk County

• 3 residential top-end lakefront and mountaintop tracts

Drilling Infrastructure

• Depth - 1,500Õ to 8,000Õ
• Diameter - ~ 2Ó tubing through 30Ó casing
• Conventional/Coal wells
• Ingersoll Rand/Schramm rigs

Exploration and Production (E&P)

• West Virginia - Kanawha, Lincoln, Putnam Counties
• Wyoming - Powder River Basin