It’s not my intent to clog up the forum with a bunch of questions but:
“Held by production” When does this start? Spud date? …If a three year lease expires after the spud date but befor stuff comes out of the ground, is a new lease to be had?
Virginia,
I did use the county records site and found the leases. I was hoping that they would have specific amounts of acres in specific areas (4ths). The leases show 4ths but seem to conflict. ie.: If you had …say 20 acres in a 4th., why would you lease 10 of them on one lease and the other 10 a couple of years later? …yes the acreage in this area are contiguous.
If acrege was “pooled”, would a lease for the “pooled” acres show up at some point at the county record site?
I can still search by “legal”. It’s at the bottom of the search page.
Ron,
I have been listed on all the pooling of my property lately and I’m leased. I don’t know if this is something new or just some companies are doing it.
David Pepper, spacing attorney for Devon is putting on the OCC spacing order that we only get 1/8, and it should read 1/8 or accordance to lease. I can’t get him to change it, so guess I will have to have my attorney write him a letter. Sure making me not happy working with Devon. Things like this don’t make mineral owners happy.
KJ,
I went on the friends list and sent you are request so you can email me without clogging the forum. I may be able to answer some of your question.
Held by production? Any time oil, gas other minerals are in paying quantity, it is held by production. Paying quantity are hard to prove.
Spud date? When they drill the first rat hole.
Lease expired? Anytime some ground work is in process for location site it can hold your lease, no new lease is required. Now, if you have some good addendum in your lease, that may be a different.
Usually a well site will start drilling prior to the expiration date and will hold the lease. Then they have 6 months from the date of the first oil or gas sold to get a check to you, otherwise if your title is clear, you can write a letter and ask for 12% interest. 6% interest if your title needs some time to be cleared. This isn’t when the rig goes down, but when the oil is sold. So, it may be up to 10 months from the spud date or even longer. Lots depends on equipment, fracking, etc.
There are 3 wells drilled from sec 23-19n-2w one under 23 one under 24-19n-2w and one under25-19n-2w I see Clint had posted a completion report for sec 24 Devon has fracked and is flaring gas noticed generators on site running the pumps I would imagine, is there somewhere on occ where I can look for any info on my interest in 25 other than case processing cause I see nothing new there I believe the bottom hole ends directly in my minerals these minerals of mine in this sec are in the south 1/2 of the southwest 1/4.
Ok thank you.
Virginia,
When I look at “friends”, your name has a green dot next to it. What have I done wrong?
Todd,
OCC site doesn’t like windows 8, that is why you can’t run it. It will work on XP, but no one will be supporting a virus protector for XP later this summer. So I wonder what OCC will do. I talked to several people at OCC and they said they don’t have the money to upgrade their system. I find that a big ??, with all the taxes the oil companies are paying you would think they could up grade and fix the county roads.
Ron,
21-18n-03w.
I don’t see a default which I thought was 1/8th. If anything did default, lord I hope it was not to 1/8th !!.
Virginia,
I’m easily amused …“spud”: a blunt knife used to cut a potato. 'Term used several hundred years ago.
This is the first and only blog I have been on. I don’t want to appear to be an idiot but I went to “friends” and accepted. What do I do now?
David Pepper is not the attorney listed on the spacing.
http://imaging.occeweb.com/AP/CaseFiles/OCC4337103.PDF
http://imaging.occeweb.com/AP/Orders/OCC4345364.PDF
Any one with an interest should be listed on the spacing . Leased or unleased .
Also wells name is Letchworh 25-19n-2w 1WH thanks for any help.
K J,
You didn’t come through on my friends list.
K J
The green dot states that I am on the forum at this time.
When I sent the accept as a friend, you just need to accept and then you can start writing to me and I should get your email.
You ask if a well is drilled within the 640 A and a well is not cemented, will everyone get paid. It will be divided between all people in the 640 by % of acres owned. So, if you lease for 3/16 and the well came in at 100 Bbd, you would take 3 time the barrels, divide by 16. That is the total that will be divide between the 640. Now you can take that total and divide by 640 to get per acre. Then take the number of acres that you own times that total and it will give you the per barrels you would get. BUT, remember what the test shows is usually not the barrels the well will produce. Most generally it will be lower.
Their are several reason why they can’t drill in a area that has an open well. They can usually get a well closed with in a few weeks to a month.
I have some questions maybe someone can help me with, under occ imaging case #201300132 ID #5008054. To extend order 601943 drilling and spacing horizontal oil units common sources of supply from sec.30-19n-1w to now include sec 25-19n-2w. what does this mean? do i have to keep back tracking order numbers to find out what is going on? could more than one section be pooled under same source of supply? is there another well i dont know about i should get money from as well other than the well that goes into and ends in my minerals in sec 25-19n-2w i am S 1/2 of the SW 1/4, also sec 26 19n-2w has a well that runs almost horizontal to well in sec 25-19n-2w just 1500 feet from each other and the bottom holes are at the south end of the sections 1,540 feet apart shouldnt i have a common source of supply with sec 26-19n-2w rather than sec 30-19n-1w which is a mile away from me to the east? Also why would mineral owners say in the NE corner of the section a mile away from this well receive royalty payment for a well that runs along the west side and ends in SW corner. Top hole to 25 and 26 are in the very SE corner of sec 23-19n-2w . thanks in advance for any help cause im confused.
Thank you virginia that helps emensley I was able to sit down for the last few hours and read again documents that where not making sense to me. my day job is being a nurse anethesis which obviously I should not give up just yet for the oil and gas industry lol, but all kidding aside i did know what WH meant and so on, it was the legal wording of documents I came across the further I dug that confused me, I would compare it to me spewing out medical terminology to a oil and gas attorney and expecting him to understand what I said. It also helped having some time to navigate this crazy web site for instance push these 2 buttons and hold to view this or that, It seems to me our occ needs to update their web site, i couldnt get it to work on my new computer i had to dig out an old lap top from 2006 to run the program anyway thanks again.
Todd, you also have a well in 26 which was just completed, although not quite as good as the other one. Also in the Woodford. Congrats.
Virginia,
I see what you are saying about the county records site. Go to the “search” tab (top right), and select a county first. Then the option to give legal ( sec., town and rainge ) will show up.
Ron,
Thank you for the docs. …though I have a bit of a head ache from trying to understand them.
To the best of my knowlege, Reece 21 has not produced anything for many years (I don’t know why 2008 is in the notes). Is the doc. telling me that a hole can not be drilled within the confines of the area on the diagram because it has not been cemented? If the hole was drilled in sec. 20 but is horizontal under 21 ( and spacing is 640) will no royalty be paid for the acreage on the diagram, or will all 640 acres rec. funds from oil and gas from this section?