I think that the oil company that is holding our oil rights on production may be falsifying their production.  Is there a way to check that?

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If the pump isn't going should there still be pressure?

should be  , you say it has a pump jack so how much oil does it produce ?

They are claiming it produces a few barrels of oil per year and a few hundred units of natural gas each year.  However, nobody has ever gone to get the oil over the years, there have been no tanker trucks out there at all.

john maybe you should ask a attorney , this has a bad smell especially if you have alot of land

We have two parcels one in Salem Township and one in liberty.  Salem Township has 90 acres and Liberty has 22.  The oil company just happens to maintain a well on each.  We had an attorney but two suspicious things happened.  First we protested that no large vehicles had been to the land and within 24 hours one went there and then we tried to get him to take action and paid him $1500 to do research etc and gave him information.  Within one week he dropped us and sent us back all the money.

It seems like he just got what information he could from us and then dropped us.  May have gotten a job from the company that is holding our land.

gee john that was nice of the attorney to give you the money back , as i said something smells ! I would get a different attorney and make a call to the Ohio attorney general office

We need another attorney, one can private me if they want to take a look.

I will let you know how this is going, it may be worth also corresponding between people who are all HBP with this same company.

John

Reply by ShaleAdvice (Steven C. Townsend) 11 hours ago

Ron,
My email is stownsend@shaleadvice.com and telephone is 412-901-7352. Let me know when it is convenient and I will set

"Suddenly another company acquired the lease and suddenly both wells recovered." Wells can paraffin up but can be cleaned to restore production. No magic

It is VERY important that in the past you can document a period of time when there was no production.  According to this court case,  this make the lease "at will" allowing the landowner to termintate it when they want to.

 

Thank you Houston Harbough for posting this on your web site.

 

http://www.hh-law.com/News/20111103-Non-ProductionDuringSecondaryTe...

 

 Absent an appropriate savings clause in the lease itself, periods of non-production during the secondary term will likely automatically terminate the lease. Landowners and gas producers alike must carefully review their respective leases when confronted with any cessation of production during the secondary term. As the Wilson decision illuminates, simply restoring production may not be enough to save a previously non-producing lease.

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