West Virginia Code § 22-10-5

Financial responsibility -- Amount
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The financial responsibility requirements applicable to all wells shall be as set forth in
section twenty-six, article six of this chapter, except that the amount of financial
responsibility through bonding or otherwise, as provided for in said section, for an individual
well shall be in the amount of $5,000. In lieu of separate, single well bonds, an operator may
either furnish a blanket bond in the sum of $50,000 in accordance with the eprovisions of
subsection (c) of section twenty-six, article six of this chapter, or if the operator has
previously provided a blanket bond in the sum of $50,000 which remainrs in effect, the
operator may cover wells subject to this article by such existing blanket bond.

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