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Permalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant on March 8, 2010 at 14:38

There is no standard size in acres for a HA Drilling & Production Unit although most are a governmental section. And standard sections do vary slightly in total acres. If you wish to know the exact acreage of a specific drilling unit, you have to look it up in the application.

http://dnr.louisiana.gov/cons/CONSEREN/hearings/pubhearings2010.htm

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Permalink Reply by Spring Branch,mineral owner on March 8, 2010 at 23:04

From my experience , the application is not always exact as to specific acreage in a unit.

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Permalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant on March 9, 2010 at 3:25

SB is correct as "in exact to the fraction of an acre". However unit applications contain a total acre figure that is "+/-" and usually close enough for mineral owners to figure their percentage of mineral acres in the unit.

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Permalink Reply by Mike Tomlin on June 4, 2010 at 3:19

Thank you for responding.

Is there a way to view unit applications from wells drilled in the 1950s and 1960s?

Thanks.

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Permalink Reply by The_Baron on June 4, 2010 at 5:11

no, but you can view the unit orders. all unit orders are available on SONRIS.

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Permalink Reply by Mike Tomlin on June 4, 2010 at 5:24

Thank you.

Unfortunatley, the unit orders doesn't have the size of the units.

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Permalink Reply by Mac Davis on June 4, 2010 at 7:21

Does the unit order at least specify that it's a full township/range/section? Is there a map as part of the unit order?

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Permalink Reply by The_Baron on June 4, 2010 at 7:28

most unit orders will have a map. There will always be some description, otherwise how would we know what the unit ecompassed?

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Permalink Reply by The_Baron on June 4, 2010 at 7:30

Yes, the unit orders always have a approximate size. The true size is determined when a full survey is made for a division order.

For units that are based on section lines (or 1/4 section or whatever...geographic units..) the actual size can be found by looking at the original PLS maps.

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Permalink Reply by The_Baron on June 4, 2010 at 7:37

look at this example, the maps clearly show the approximate unit size.

Attachments:

• UCMRedir.pdf, 175 KB

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Permalink Reply by Mike Tomlin on June 4, 2010 at 8:28

Thank you for your response.

I looked at over 12 unit orders today that did not have approximate acreage. I was probably looking at the wrong orders or something. I will keep digging and will hopefully come up with what I am looking for.

Thanks again.

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Permalink Reply by The_Baron on June 4, 2010 at 8:54

give me a refernce #....

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