Title
Consider and take action to authorize the City Manager to deem as satisfied the conditions attached to the Oil and Gas Well Drilling Permit issued on August 28, 2018, to Lynn Watkins of Venture 2, LLC for Tidwell #1 drill site, southwest of the Brittany Lakes Subdivision, east of Bay Area Boulevard and west of Landing Boulevard, in accordance with Chapter 42, Article III of the League City Code of Ordinances, entitled Oil and Gas Well Drilling (Director of Planning and Development)
Background:
Approval of this item authorizes the City Manager to consider as met the conditions attached to the drilling permit issued to the applicant for a proposed drilling site at Tidwell #1 on the southwest side of League City.
The City of League City has been working with the applicant since 2010 on the project to find a suitable drill site to extract gas and/or oil from deep beneath the Magnolia Creek Subdivision. A drill site located southwest of the Brittany Lakes Subdivision and directly south of the Magnolia Creek Subdivision is the location currently proposed.
In April of 2016 and July of 2017, City Council granted approximately 25 variances, several conditionally, to facilitate the exploratory drilling operation, however these approvals did not authorize the approval of the drilling permit, nor did it create any precedents. Since the variances were granted, the application for a drilling permit has remained incomplete due to several deficiencies in the documentation submitted the City. After meeting with the applicant in August 2018, the City Manager issued drilling permit with conditions attached, which conditions must be satisfied demonstrating that all applicable regulations are met before actual operations may commence.
Project Summary:
A part of League City’s review of the Tidwell #1 drilling application, the City has contracted with Lloyds Register Drilling Integrity Services (LRDIS) as a third party technical advisor to this project. All infor...
Click here for full text