I have several lease numbers for minerals in OK and TX.
Where do I go to search for leases by numbers? I eventually want to connect the active leases with my royalty income. How do I figure out which ones are still active or contain wells that producing?
If I get the API number of a well, will I be able to track the history of the leases?
(And sorry if I am getting some of the terminology wrong.)
OK and Texas have different ways of reporting.
Texas has a Lease Number and in many cases, all the wells within a certain area are reported under that number. Might be a spacing or a meter. And I seem to remember that oil may be different than gas. Someone in TX, can you clarify please.
Oklahoma is slightly different. Most wells are reported under their own meter (except in a few cases-such as waterfloods). So when you say “lease number” in OK, that will not mean the same thing as in Texas. Each operator may have property number which will change if the operator changes as it is an internal identifier. If you have the name and API number of the well, then that is the easiest way to track in OK.
Definitely a good idea to match your active leases with their revenue. Then you can spot gaps in payment. In OK, you can track through the OTC- Oklahoma Tax Commission. Gross Production. You can search by name, API or location. You can see the last “12 months” for free and you can order the complete history for a small fee.
Thank you for your response.
Right now I am mostly focused on OK leases and it does seem that there is a lease number that is specific to the Operator or Payor.
I have document that lists Lease name, Lease Number, Purchaser, Location/legal description, and Operator. This document is from 1995.
My goal is to identify the API numbers. Is the above information enough to figure out API numbers? And ultimately get all our interests mapped and correlated with the paid on leases and wells.
We have some more current leases, but not for all of the interests. We also have current Revenue Statements and some documents recording the transfer of various lease
If you are looking at a check stub from Oklahoma, the Lease name, Lease Number are property numbers and just a synonym. If you have the Lease Name and description, you can probably get the API number by using the description and using the OCC well records site and work backwards.
Can you give an example and I can walk you through how to do it.
WOW That would be so helpful. Because I think it will indirectly (or directly) help with some of my other questions.
We have Mineral Interests in Stephens County, T3S R4W Sec 3 W2 W2 NE & N2N2 SE & S2 NE SE
I have a conveyance (from my husband to his own trust) that list several tracts and wells all in this same section. I will list the name as I have and associated Lease numbers. I have a payor and an operator for each of these.
These are: East Velma WB Sims SU tracts 34 (Manford) ARCO Permian: 35-137-019256-000, operated by ARCO
East Velma WB Sims SU tract 34 (Stallings) Same Lease number as above
These seem to be almost duplicated as follows: East Velma WB Humphries SU tract 24 (Manford) Total Petroleum: 306185-024, 0perated by Henry Petroleum
East Velma HB Humphreys SU tract 24 (Stallings/CKM) Total Petroleum: 306185-024, operated by Henry Petroleum
We have several other interest (some are different sections, others just different quarter calls) in the East Velma HB either Humphreys or Sims and varying tracts within.
How important are the duplicates…will this all be resolved by figuring out the API numbers?
I really appreciate your help!
Ahh, I see the issue. All of those are secondary waterflood units and they end in SU which stands for Sand Unit. They have multiple wells in them and they are often all rolled up under one line on a check stub. This gets a bit complicated…
A long time ago, there was an original well or more in your tract 34. The original farmer’s name was probably Robison. It had a certain amount of acreage attached to it. A bunch of wells were drilled in one reservoir. Then the wells were all combined into a secondary recovery unit for that reservoir. Your particular well was plugged and abandoned, but since you are in the waterflood unit, you continue to get paid your portion of the whole unit production. The unit gets its own number . There were also other wells into another reservoir.
If you go to the original Unit plan you can find those sections. OGUnitization I think you really meant sec3 2S 4W. Grab the plan of unitization and you can find the tract numbers.
OGUnitization Type in East Velma in the Unit Name box. You will see a LOT of units that start with that name.
https://imaging.occ.ok.gov/OG/Unitization/03015450.pdf This is the unit plan for Humphries West Block. Scroll down to about page 32 and it lists the tracts. Tract 24 is called the Robison tract. The map is on page 34. You may have to enlarge it, but there were three wells in that zone. It also lists a tract percentage. That is how much of the waterflood total acres that belong to that description.https://imaging.occ.ok.gov/OG/Unitization/00577829.pdf This is the unit plan for WB Sims Sand Unit. Scroll down to page 33 and you will see that Tract 34 is also the Robison unit. But the tract percentage is different because the acreage in that reservoir is slightly different. They are supposed to scan the map but it is missing. Go to this document p. 34 and you will find the map.
Basically, you are getting paid on every well in that entire map as long as the waterflood is producing. So as confusing as it is, you don’t have to figure out all the API numbers! I always print the pages that have the tract numbers and the maps that go with them and put them in my files.
That is amazing and so helpful. I have several other tracts in both Sand Units But that resolves all of them.
I will see what I can sort from that site. I see several different search tools there.
Thank you!!
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