Know Your Rights - Texas Mineral Law
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Can operator leave adubu out Texas Well plat
In Texas operator has plat for H shale well. The Plat is perfect Rectangular for better N/S lateral. They cut a 24 acres off a tract that deep rights control by another operator that will not deal with operator drilling new unit. These 24 acres stick out into the rectangular unitCan operator just…
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Looking for O&G attorney in Tyler area
I'm looking for a reasonably priced Oil & Gas or Real Estate attorney to help me with a mineral ownership issue. The minerals are in Smith county so I was looking for someone in the Tyler area. I cant spend a lot of money as the mineral interest is very small. Thanks fo any help.
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Texas HB100 Forced pooling bill very bad for Texas mineral owners
REQUEST YOUR STATE REPRESENTATIVE OPPOSE HB100.The Forced Unitization Bill, HB 100, has been set for a hearing at the House Energy Resources Committee this Wednesday, March 13. This is an extraordinarily bad bill for landowners and mineral interest owners. As a land and mineral owner in Shelby…
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Lease Language for Texas
I am trying to help my elderly aunt, who has 1 acre of mineral rights which is in an undivided interest of a 40 acre tract in Texas within the Haynesville shale. All the other relatives who have mineral rights in the 40 acres have signed the lease, but as she is out of state the lease was mailed…
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Production Sharing Agreement
Panola County -We are being encouraged to sign a Production Sharing Agreement by Anadarko that will effect our minerals in Panola County in order to drill a Horizontal Haynseville Shale Well (these minerals have been HBP since the 40's with a 1/8 royalty and we do not want to reduce our revenue in…
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How long can a operator hold lease after older well is shut-in? Question for Ben or anyone
A James Lime Well in East Texas drilled and produced for 9 years so HBP a 600 acre lease with this one well--- Well made < 150 mmcf of the 9 years and last production about 1500 mcf in month ~50 mcfd --- CHK came in and removed everythink off pad site about 6 weeks ago--leaving only the drill…
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Length of time to prepare division orders?
Hello - Evidently we had a producing well drilled in some minerals that we own. It was completed in May but we still have not received any DO. How long does it usually take? Is there a statutory limit on how long it can take? Thanks in advance for the information!
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Carried Working Interest in Texas
Here’s a hypothetical situation. Suppose there is a 90-acre undivided tract which is 2/3 leased ... with 1/3 holding out (30 net mineral acres). One operator has all the surrounding property leased ... and pools the 90 acres into a 360-acre pool ... then begins drilling wells ... NOT on the 90-acre…
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Production Reports
Can anyone tell me how to pull up multible and past production reports fron the TRRC. I have tried and I cant.
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Are O&G lease forms copyrighted?
There are various sample lease forms floating around which don’t say they’re copyrighted. Does this mean you can use clauses or sentences from them ... or even use the entire lease form ... without worrying about copyright infringement? I’ve heard of a law firm using one of these samples found…
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