[Wuli]

I wonder if it’s legal - to buy land with an abandoned natural gas well operation on it, then build your own house on the land and restart the gas pumping, using it for energy/fuel just for your own home???

[PAR35]

Depends on whether the minerals have been severed from the land. If the drillers just leased from the landowners,and the lease has expired, then the minerals would go with the land.

As for using gas straight out of the ground, I’d refer you to this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_London_School_explosion

[biff]

Yep, if you own the mineral rights.

[Rebelbase]

Long time back I recall reading about some farmers in Oklahoma that heat their chicken houses with the gas from abandoned stripper wells on their property.