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Permalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant on March 22, 2022 at 11:49

Then you are force pooled into a drilling and production unit and fall under the statutes of the Louisiana mineral code that deal with unleased mineral owners.  Is your attorney an experienced O&G attorney?  If so, he/she should be able to answer this question for you.

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Permalink Reply by Julia P Crowell on March 22, 2022 at 15:27

I'm sorry -- I should have told you this is Cass County, TX, and it's a brine lease. There are two wells on the property already that are producing oil under Plains All American. Thank you. 

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Permalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant on March 22, 2022 at 15:33

Thanks for letting us know, Julia.  We have another member who has turned down a brine lease offer recently in Cass County.  I'm pretty sure that "compulsory integration" as Texas likes to call force pooling wouldn't apply to forming a unit for brine development.  Maybe we have a member that is familiar with the appropriate Texas statutes.

Here is a link to that discussion in the Cass County Group: https://gohaynesvilleshale.com/group/casscounty/forum/topics/brine-...

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Permalink Reply by Julia P Crowell on March 22, 2022 at 16:14

Thank you. My O&G attorney glanced at the lease and said she saw a number of problems right away. 

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Permalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant on March 23, 2022 at 0:44

The lease offers seem to be a fishing expedition.  An attempt to get acreage under lease on the cheap prior to any real investment in testing the brine in Cass County for any economic concentrations of lithium.

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