Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by Maggie Bryant on October 25, 2013 at 8:14

adubu,

I do not expect anything from Chesapeake other than being treated fairly. All of a sudden each of my relatives Chesapeake claimed my brother and I signed our land and mineral rights over to received letters this week stating their payments were being suspended for overpayment yet, they send a letter to my attorney with another stupid excuse that does not make any sense. If you will check the unit declaration on page 21, in Shelby County Texas .They omitted me and several relatives on pages 1 thru 20. From here forward I will let my attorney deal with this idoits.  

• ▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Joe Aldridge on October 25, 2013 at 11:50

Maggie,

Patience, patience. Just calm down a bit. You have stated your case and there is plenty of time before prescription. CHK needs to go back to their Title people and get the problem straightened out. As much as you want it to happen it will not happen over night. I don't think you or they want to make another mistake in this matter. If what you say is correct then you'll get your money and the relatives may have other worries.

Permalink Reply by Larry G Smith P.E. on October 26, 2013 at 2:09

Mr Aldridge, CHK does not give a damn about the Royaltiy owners, giving them time for what, to do nothing to correct a problem. I know because we have a problem that was brought to CHK's attention, they blamed it on XTO the well operators, I contacted XTO. They admitted a mistake and sent a correction with payment to CHK and notified me when it was sent. That has been over a year now and we have not been paid for this mistake. CHK are operated by Crooks and you have to believe that.

Permalink Reply by Joe Aldridge on October 26, 2013 at 5:38

Larry,

I like you have had bad experiences but it looks like they are working on trying to figure out who really owns the minerals. I would give it a little more time. They have already told the relatives that they are holding their payments. So it looks to me like they are looking at trying to work out something as far as who has true ownership. Title work is not going to happen over night no matter what one wants or expects. I'm surprised that there are not more mistakes made in establishing title to property. That is NOT a job I would want to work at.

Permalink Reply by Larry G Smith P.E. on October 26, 2013 at 9:33

Joe, in my case there is no question about the ownership of our property. It has been in my Dad's family for over 100 years. we have sold timber and it was leased back in the 1960's by an oil company. No, CHK will use any and every excuse they can to stall and/or not pay the Royalty owners. I have been in the Oil Business all of my life and I am 80 years old, I have never seen a company like CHK before. But  I own a service company since 1968, a friend also in the oil service business warned me not to do work for CHK because they were a nickle and dime operation and I would have problems getting paid. I do wish I had listened  to his advice in leasing the property.

Permalink Reply by Andrew on October 24, 2013 at 7:10

Maggie,

If you sent CHK the certified letter on September 19, you may wait a bit longer for a response before filing suit. Right or wrong, my experience with huge companies such as CHK is that sometimes it takes a few weeks to get things handled (particularly at CHK, who is laying off land staff in droves). If you don't get a response by mid-November, I think it would be then be safe to assume that you won't get one.

• ▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Larry G Smith P.E. on October 24, 2013 at 7:26

Big company or not they have had over a month to reply, why wait any longer? I contacted XTO about a problem with production and got a reply in about 2 days.

• ▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Maggie Bryant on October 24, 2013 at 16:23

Hi Andrew,

I received a copy of  a  letter dated 10-17-13 from my attorney , Chesapeake  replied with an answer that does not make sense however, I  obtained information from my relatives I felt Chesapeake was paying my royalties to. Chesapeake sent each of  them notificatiom their checks were being suspended due to over payments. I wonder what caused this? Chesapeake may be laying off people, that is their problem being crooks can cause a lot of lawsuits. I have been trying to get this taken care of for the last 8 months. All I get is lies and stalling tactics. They have made profits from my minerals and will not admit they have made a big mistake.         

• ▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Gale on October 29, 2013 at 19:44

Maggie,

Over payment and under payment is common with all companies. I deal with about 7 different oil companies, some large ones and some small ones. Through the 25+ yrs since I inherited these mineral rights I had it both ways, they will correct it and resume payments. Once we discovered Chevron had underpaid our family from 2000-2005, I fought them daily for over 6 months and eventually the payment was made with interest. And let me just tell you it's was not small chump change, it was 6 figures hedging 7 figures. That was when prices were extremely high $10-$16 and 150 acres, we got all due us and eventually you will get yours too. I do understand your frustration but just know it will all work out hopefully sooner than later.

• ▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Gale on October 29, 2013 at 19:48

Btw, I also felt I was getting the run around, but age and experience has taught me nothing moves fast in the oil business.

• ▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Maggie Bryant on October 30, 2013 at 7:47

Hi Gale,

Thanks for your encouragement.

• ▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Ken on October 31, 2013 at 10:17

I reviewed the Oil and Gas Proration Schedule Listed by Field, RRC District 6 for October 2013.

There is no oil or gas sales listed for your well for the month of October 2013.  No oil and gas sales equals no revenue, no money and no royalty payments.

You are listed as "Maggie Bryant, et al"  on tract 15 of over 27 tracts in the Pooling Authority of 382.47-acres.   Remember, the latin word 'et alii' means "and others."  

Information submitted on 10/16/2012 have the well type listed as "Shut-In Producer" and a letter dated October 08, 2013, indicated the well test report had not been filed.

Well Reference:  API Well Number 42-419-31717 

 

 

 

• ▶ Reply

• ‹ Previous
• 1
• …
• 3
• 4
• 5
• 6
• Next ›
• Page