I recently received a lease offer on some Shelby County land I hold the mineral rights to and was disappointed in the initial offer of $300/Acre and a 1/6 share. Has anyone heard of other offers that are better? It is in the Carson-Neva Survey area.
Thanks so much for the info. I hope your projections are correct as they would be a major upgrade from the initial offer. Any word on the progress on the Epps#1 drilling? Thanks again.
Shelby County royalty rates are all over the place. Most companies initial offers are between $200 - $500 an acre, which in my opinion grossly undervalues the minerals.
As for royalties, 1/4 leases are commonplace in Shelby County.
The reality is that many big players are active, not just interested, in Shelby County. Other than Petrohawk, I don't think any of the operators have announced that they are drilling Haynesville wells in Shelby County but they are. Take Devon's Case #3, put on-line in October 2008. This well produced over 600,000 mcf of gas in its first full month of production... That's Haynesville type production, not Cotton Valley. Even with natural gas prices low, Haynesville wells are monsters.