Federal--Oil & Gas

摘要

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) denied arequestby International Petroleum and Exploration Operating Corporation (IPEOC) to post a bond under the Stock-Raising Homestead Act (SRHA), 43 U.S.C. para. 299(a), to cover its proposal to drill an exploratory gas well on unitized lands. In International Petroleum and Exploration Operating Corp., 178 IBLA 1, GFS(O&G) 13 (20093, the Interior Board of Land Appeals (IBLA) affirmed BLM's determination that the SRHA does not authorize the use of a privately-owned road on SRHA patented lands for the purpose of securing access to unitized lands that did not include the patented tract.