What or who are the persons or companies or state offices to check to see if any oil companies are drilling on your location? Steps!!! Like the County Commissioners Office?
Since you posted in Grady County, OK, I am assuming you are in Oklahoma. The Oklahoma Corporation Commission is the place to look. Oklahoma Corporation Commission Oil and Gas Conservation Division
Permits will be listed in the well records area. Test The surface location may not always be in your section if it is a horizontal well, so you need to look in the contiguous sections or even two sections away.
If you are correctly registered at the county courthouse and your name and address are linked to your mineral rights, then you should be getting any OCC hearing documents. You can look up your section, township and range and find out if there are any cases for your section. http://www.occeweb.com/caseprocessingonline/default.aspx The spacing, location exception, poolings, etc. will come out before the permits.
If you list you section, township and range, forum members can get you started.
The sad news is there are no organized method keeping track of who owes what and who’s doing something to something. If conflicts arise you have to be able to prove your case by proof by deeds/inheritance/probate etc. Before an oil company leases/drills there is a series of investigations via the County Clerks Records to find out who currently has the mineral rights, and that is what you have to do yourself or hire a lawyer/landman/title research individual to research your interest. If you have your deeds filed at the County Clerk and your name and address associated with those deeds then you should receive notices when an action takes place or if someone wants to lease your minerals. Usually the first indication 0f activity you receive after leasing is a Spacing Order. Martha in the prior post has listed the helpful web sites which you can research to find what actions are taking place on your minerals. If you know who is drilling, you may try to call them.
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