Division Order/Unit Land Survey

The Division Order payment is based upon an approved land unit survey.  The lease agreement was entered into in 2010, however, the LDNR did not approve the land unit survey until 2017, and that survey is full of errors.  When I spoke to someone in the LDNR Inspection & Enforcement Engineering Division regarding the erros, he told me that I'd have to speak to the Oil & Gas Company. How can the monthly payments to the landowners be correct?

A month ago, I sent an email and also a certified registered letter to the O & G Company with a signed receipt.  As of yet, I haven't received a response from them.

TIA.

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Oil & Gas ProPermalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant on July 22, 2017 at 15:59

I'm corresponding with staff currently on this very topic.  I'm unaware that the LDNR "approves" unit survey plats.  It appears that they simply accept the survey supplied by the unit operator.  The problem I am seeking to have addressed is the lack of surveys entered in the state database where the public would have access to them.  The state regulation requires an applicant to provide a unit survey within 90 days of the approval of the unit or, if the unit is not in production, to provide a survey within 90 days of the commencement of production.  Obviously the vast majority of Haynesville Drilling Units have been in production for years now however the unit surveys contained in the database are only a fraction of the total.

LN, how do you know that the survey is "full of errors"?  Where did you get a copy of the unit survey?  You are right to question the accuracy of your decimal interest considering the lack of transparency and any requirements by the state as to the type of survey. 

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