Hi Al, Dittos on the welcome to the blog. When a company wildcatted a nice fat well (by Dunn Cty standards, anyway) adjacent to my assets, I immediately contacted first the leasing agent company (who could or would only tell me which oil company still had possession of my lease) and then contacted the oil company directly. Had I not done so, I too would be completely in the dark as to the plans for my assets. In that one phone call to the exec of Land Drilling and the Director of Field Services (or some such title....), I learned that, indeed, a well plan was underway for my acreage, including the two sections where I have the most assets. I learned that it will be bakken well, the well vertical site location, the well identifier name and # the orientation of the lateral(s), the length of the lateral(s) and that it was being surveyed at the time of the call. Not expecting to learn so much in my first call to the company, I of course had questions as soon as I hung up the phone. I called back, asked for the exec's admin, asked her how best to get my questions answered, and the admin said that I could send my questions to the admin's email address. If you are not the SURFACE owner where the vertical well is being drilled, you will not hear from the company until a division order is in your hands, and that is 5-6-7 months after the well goes on production. Your lease allows them to do everything they need to without notifying a mineral owner at any time during the process until they need the mineral owner's signature on the Division Order that, in essence, says you agree with their determination on what percentage of royalty on what portion of mineral ownership . That's it. The only persons they will contact in between IS the surface owner to negotiate surface use compensation for the actual well site. If you are BOTH the surface and the mineral owner on the site, you would be contacted, only because you own the surface. So, my best advice would be to contact the same persons in your case, the leasing agent/company, find out who holds the paper currently ( leases can change hands between companies many times over, kinda like mortgages) and then call the HQ of that company ... And, I heartily recommend cruising this blog from the beginning, stopping to read the different threads that catch your interest.... and excellent resource... Best, Rufus
On Oct 5, 12:48 am, DepME <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have some acres in Dunn county that were leased by Continental > Resources in May 2007. CR applied for 1280 acre pooling the first > part of May 2008 and applied for a drilling permit the last part of > May 2008. They started drilling in August. > > I haven't heard from a soul !! Not the landman, not Continental > Resources, not anyone. If I hadn't stumbled upon the NDIC site and > this group while googling 'Bakken', I'de probably still be in the > dark. > > Welcome to the group. There is lots of knowledgeable people here who > are will to help out. Spend some time using the search tool. You > might find at least some of your questions have already been asked and > answered. > > On Oct 4, 5:25 pm, "al gates" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Just found out that XTO Energy has an application for a 1280 acre drilling > > unit on a section of land in Dunn county that my mother has an oil lease on. > > Being new to this world of ND oil, what can we next expect? Will we hear > > from them at some point? Do we just sit back and wait or what? Thanks for > > any information.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Bakken Shale Discussion" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bakken-shale-discussion?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
