A list of contracts issued by the Pennsylvania Dept. of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) issued, as of February 2015, to allow Marcellus and Utica Shale drilling under what PA calls publicly-owned waterways--everything from large rivers to small/nameless creeks. The state receives $4,000 per acre as a signing bonus and a 20% royalty.

1. Contract numbers in the table are links to documents in the Pennsylvania Treasury E-Contracts Library online.
River
Tract
No.
Contract no. Operator name Waterway County(s) Bonus Acreage Contract
date:
1021 M-1101021-20 Chesapeake
Appalachia LLC
Susquehanna River Bradford $6,152,000.00 1538.000 5/3/10
2004 M-2102004-20 Anadarko E&P
Company LP
East Branch Wallis Run Lycoming $45,985.00 9.197 2/15/13
2 M-210002 Anadarko E&P
Company LP
Beech Creek Centre $298,100.00 59.620 2/19/13
2019 M-2102019-08 R.E. Gas Development Connoquenessing Creek Butler $552,000.00 138.000 4/13/13
2030 M-2102030-04 EQT Production
Company
Ten Mile Creek Greene $10,200.00 2.550 12/2/13
2025 M-2102025-4 Vantage Energy Ten Mile Creek Greene $321,692.00 80.423 1/31/14
2029 M-2102029-6 XTO Energy Inc. Black Lick Creek Indiana $74,800.00 18.700 2/25/14
2031 M-2102031-8 XTO Energy Inc. Connoquenessing Creek Butler $56,800.00 14.2 3/12/14
2009 M-2102009-04 Chevron Appalachia,
LLC
Dunkard Creek Greene $228,000.00 57.000 3/12/14
2005 M-2102005-11-
20
Chesapeake
Appalachia LLC
Susquehanna River Bradford &
Wyoming
$4,368,000.00 1092.000 3/14/14
2026 M-2102026-08 CNX Gas Company LLC E. Branch Mahoning
Creek
Jefferson $34,520.00 8.630 8/13/14
2027 M-2102027-04 CNX Gas Company LLC Kiskiminetas River Armstrong &
Westmoreland
$175,920.00 43.980 8/13/14
2023 M-2102023-04 Tenmile Creek Oil &
Gas LLC
South Fork Tenmile
Creek
Greene $76,800.00 19.200 10/10/14
2024 M-2102024-04 Energy Corporation of
America
South Fork Tenmile
Creek
$17,200.00 4.300 10/10/14
2010 M-2102010-16 SWEPI LP Cowanesque River Tioga $460,000.00 115.0 1/9/2015
2011 M-2102011-16 SWEPI LP Crooked Creek Tioga $176,000.00 44.0 1/9/2015
2012 M-2102012-16 SWEPI LP Elkhorn Creek Tioga $32,000.00 8.0 1/9/2015
2013 M-2102013-16 SWEPI LP Marsh Creek Tioga $248,000.00 62.0 1/9/2015
2014 M-2102014-08 Hilcorp Energy I, L.P. Shenango River/Creek Lawrence &
Mercer
$736,000.00 184.0 1/9/2015
2015 M-2102015-16 SWEPI LP Tioga River Tioga $156,000.00 39.0 1/9/2015
2016 M-2102016-14 SWEPI LP Tionesta Creek Forest $56,000.00 14.0 1/9/2015