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Oil & Gas ProPermalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant on October 15, 2014 at 15:57

Jan, it is not normal for a company to send a check before a lease is negotiated and executed.  I am not familiar with that company and I'm suspicious of their intent.  Some companies send checks (not usually large in amount) as part of an offer to acquire a person's mineral rights.  Read the letter carefully and get help if you don't understand the offer.  In order to know what is going on in the area of her mineral interest we would need to know the location by section-township-range.

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landownerPermalink Reply by Hopeful About Natural Gas on October 15, 2014 at 16:51

In addition to what Skip wrote, tell your Mother NOT TO SIGN ANYTHING until doing good research.

Also, it's quite possible that they are buying, not leasing your mother's interest. Most of us on this board have received these 'offers" over the years. A signature could transfer ownership, but that was almost never clear.

Thanks for posting this on GHS. If our members don't know a company I would not personally deal with them.

Keep checking back for a few days to see what others post and if you want to know what activity is going on or planned for her area post the township and range. Someone here will look on the databases to see what is happening in her section.

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