John:
The title opinion is supposed to be based upon the “records” of the county court house, including the
Court Clerk’s office. They may also rely on title curative documents that have been obtained from various sources. Sometimes these curative documents aren’t filed at the court house.
Title attorney’s very seldom go to the court house anymore. They have land records people gather the information and supply them the information for review. All are human and make mistakes or miss documents. Many documents can be mis-filed at the court house. That is why many companies compare what the Court house shows with what is at a county abstract office.
The Division Order is then rendered on the culmination of all of that information. When adding all the numbers up, it must total “100% or 1”. If not, they go look for the difference.
Todd M. Baker
Martha,
There must be a prescribed algorithm, sequence or methodology that all oil producers MUST follow to “whittle” down to the “actual” division-order level prescribed royalty payee. I don’t believe that all these research efforts into who gets what is at all ad-hoc.
My question still is, how can my name be associated with a royalty payment and a certain pooling number where I can not find any association with my name as a land owner or property tax payor(by of mineral rights by the “bundle”) in that pool, nor can I find my name in any respodents list, either exibit “A” or otherwise, in said actual pooling document found at the OCC. The relief sought by the cause# was “pooling”. How did the oil producer resolve to pay me a royalty? Can some form of a title search be beneficial or worth the money? I know this is a lame q, but how do I build a mineral owners only list?
Any info is awesome!
Thanks,
Dan
Dan: You are getting “analysis paralysis”.
A complete & through review of all the deeds and oil & gas leases filed against a section at the county court house takes place. After putting all that information in order, a determination is made as to who the actual owners are, their specific royalty interests noted and a division of interest is determined. Is has nothing to do with any “list of respondents” or poolings, or anything else.
The operator reviewed the records as mentioned above and determined that you owned an interest. Maybe they have the wrong Dan Williams. Do you have any knowledge of owning a mineral interest in
the section in question?
Respectfully,
Todd M. Baker
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