The drilling companies typically acquire leases with landholders who have access to oil and mineral rights below their land by using a landman (either an employee of the company or an independent agent), who offers a fixed price per acre for the right to drill, plus a royalty percentage of the value of the produced hydrocarbons.
The horizon is a circumference, not a straight line, and the land below unrelentingly flat, divided only by orchards lined up like military regiments.
Some of the rock face is owned by the Downs Committee, another section by residents in a nearby block of flats and and the land below by another private owner.
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For months, a unit led by Captain Dan Kearney holds an outpost high in the Korengal Valley that gives the soldiers a clear view of the land below, but the impression of force exerted without purpose is overwhelming.
After 21 years in football's wilderness, a one-nil win against Bishops Stortford on Friday has them within touching distance of the Blue Square South title, and with it promotion to the Blue Square Premier, just one level below the promised land of the Football League.
Yarnell and his family lived just below us on some land he rented from the bank.
Their solution was to yield most of the canvas or panel to the gray, fog-and cloud-filled sky (curator Emilie Gordenker, director of the Mauritshuis, calls them "our Dutch mountains"), with blue openings torn into the gray here and there so that spots of sunlight could illuminate parts of the land or water below.
At one point he speculates about frac fluid migrating up from 2 miles below the surface to ruin the land.
But many land mines are buried below where Zeus can see them, says Philip Coyle of the Center for Defense Information in Washington, D.
Tom wanted to throw his computer against the window, but only if he could guarantee it would break the glass and land on the street below.
The new state land lies in Newcomb about a dozen miles below where the Hudson first spills out of Lake Henderson into a rocky streambed, about 300 miles before it flows into New York Harbor as a wide, flat waterway carrying barges.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority invited competitive bidding for the land after the Jets' initial offer fell well below its valuation.
The surface of the inland waterway sits at the lowest land point on the planet, more than 400m below sea level.
The US Navy has expanded the role of its destroyers and the Arleigh Burke-class of vessels is designed to launch simultaneous attacks against targets on land, in the air, at sea and below it.
The Ochsner clinic is a precious 7 or 8 feet above sea level, a distance that has kept it from being flooded out of commission like other hospitals on land in New Orleans, much of which is below sea level.
Some land may have already been leased for generations, when the assets below were thought to be worth very little.
During the summer months, Antarctica -- the southern most tip of the globe -- is transformed into a bewitching "Land of the Midnight Sun, " where the sun never dips below the horizon, instead continuously moving in circles.
While you wait for Curiosity to land and get your party set up, you can check it out below.
Plans wishing to land members who are federally subsidized will need to keep their premiums at or below that level.
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