With the growth of Marcellus shale natural gas drilling over the past decade, laws pertaining to mineral and oil and gas rights have been revisited. When subsurface oil and gas rights have been severed from surface ownership years ago, it is difficult to determine who owns the rights and who should benefit financially from the natural gas extraction. This paper proposes that Pennsylvania should consider revision of its current dormant oil and gas law to ensure that surface owners can make a claim for ownership of abandoned oil and gas rights below their land.