IN single well plugging bonds.
$275 flat. Soft pull.
Before the Indiana DNR Division of Oil and Gas issues a permit, it requires a bond guaranteeing you will plug and abandon the well and restore the site. The per-well amount is $2,500, and at our flat 3% that lands at our $275 minimum — one soft credit pull, e-signed in 1–2 business days.
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Three steps to permitted.
Your DNR permit is waiting on this bond. Here's the entire process — no broker phone tag:
Apply once, online
Business details, owner information, effective date. That is the application — the only extra step is a one-time consent to a soft credit pull.
Reviewed & approved
Most of these clear quickly; if underwriting needs anything, you hear from an underwriter within 48 hours. The credit check is a soft pull that never affects your score.
E-sign & file with the DNR
Pay online and receive the executed bond ready to file with the Division of Oil and Gas alongside your permit application. Wet-ink originals mailed whenever the state insists.
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$2,500 bond × 3% = $75, which is below our $275 minimum — so the premium is $275, one-time per term.
What it is and who needs it.
What the bond actually guarantees
Indiana's Department of Natural Resources, Division of Oil and Gas conditions every well permit on a bond under IC 14-37-6 and 312 IAC 29-12. The bond is a performance guarantee to the state: it backs your obligation to plug the well, fill excavations, remove concrete bases and equipment, cut surface casing at least thirty-six inches below grade, and restore the surface.
For a single well the bond is $2,500. Operators with multiple wells can instead post a blanket bond of $45,000 covering any number of wells, or a bond sized to the number of wells at $2,500 each — choose whichever fits your operation.
The bond stays in force from filing until the Natural Resources Commission determines the well has been properly plugged and abandoned (or converted to a fresh-water well, or replaced by a substitute bond). If you fail to plug and restore, the state can recover against it — and if the surety pays, you repay the surety.
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Five minutes. The whole thing.
These are the actual underwriting fields, including a one-time consent to a soft credit pull. Submit once and your bond is typically issued within 1–2 business days.
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If yours isn't here, the bond team can usually answer within the hour.
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Your DNR permit is waiting on one document.
$275 flat, five-minute application, e-signed bond in 1–2 business days. Free until issued.