Beth, the Operator of the well - Triad Hunter - had a press release to announce the drilling of the Weese Hunter 1001 well, their first horizontal well in Tyler County. I hope that they have another press release bragging about the well's initial production. If the well does not do well, we probably will not hear anything. We need to keep our fingers crossed and hope for daily production of 1-5 mmcf.
DODDRIDGE CO we want to know if any of this shell has been found in the west end of Dodd. Co. I have the leasing rights on 365 ajoining acres. There is a good possibility of leasing 500 more acres. Are we in a hot spot?
The marcellus covers all of Doddridge County . that is a nice bit of acerage.
things are kind of slow on leasing right now, someone will no doubt get a hold of you. they have landmen working the courthouses all the time. chesapeake has leased is in the $ 1000 per acre 15 % range in some districts in marion, monongalia & tyler havent heard much on doddridge they are doing a good bit of grilling there , just have not heard many offers. when all the pipe lines are reworked and completed, should help leasing in these counties, we want you to get a fair deal, usually if there is an offer someone will post it. be sure your a member of Doddrige county, so they will send a notification when there is a new post.
I am aware of a company who owns all or some fraction of the mineral rights on thousands of acres spread throughout Tyler County. Following the Chesapeake meeting in February, they signed a lease. As of a month ago they had received bonus payment on about 20% of their holdings. I don't no of any way of learning where the leased acreage lies in the county or why Chesapeake has not leased the other 80% of the companies holdings.
Does anyone know someone who signed with Chesapeake following the February meeting? In what part of Tyler County is their property located?
We don't know how horizontal Marcellus wells will do in Tyler County, but even if they don't produce well we have other possibilities: Utica shale and Trenton/Black River. They are also natural gas bearing geological layers that lie deeper than the Marcellus shale. There is a good chance that one or both of these formations in Tyler County have significant amounts of natural gas. Exploration for these deeper shales may be several years in the future, but they will come after it at some point. http://theintelligencer.net/page/content.detail/id/548719/Consol-St...
The Weese Hunter wells 1001 and 1002 were scheduled for completion at the end of November. I haven't seen any press releases, has anyone heard any rumors on what is happening? I hope no news isn't bad news.
GRRREAT NEWS! The amount of money paid for O&G leases in Tyler County should be taking a giant leap. Read the article in this link: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Magnum-Hunter-Resources-iw-101815754.... First day production of 7MMcf (7,000,000 cubic feet). The first months production could be in the neighborhood of 100,000,000 cf. Someone speculated that the value of this wet gas is about $7.00 per 1000 cubic feet. The first months production would sell for about $700,000. 12%, 15% or 18% royalty would be a sizable chunk of change. Please check my math, I think it is correct but I may have screwed up the decimal point. This could be one of the greatest Christmas presents we could ever hope for.
The attached illustration is from a Magnum Hunter Resources Corp presentation from Feb 2011. I took the liberty to add the green highlights. I think the town of Tyler is in the green oval, the Weese Hunter well pad with 2 horizontals running to the southeast is bottom - left center and a (proposed?) 5 acre well pad with 5 horizontals running northwest nearly to MIC is located bottom - right center. Does anyone know who owns this farm in the big bend of McElroy Cr?
More info on the Weese Hunter wells, the future is bright.
The Company’s first horizontal well in the natural gas liquids rich leg of the Marcellus Shale of northwestern West Virginia was the Weese Hunter #1001, located in Tyler County. The Company spud the Weese Hunter #1001 in late July 2010 and reached total vertical depth of approximately 6,510 feet in mid August 2010. A third party drilling rig commenced the horizontal leg in mid September 2010 and reached a horizontal length of approximately 4,028 feet. Total measured depth for the Weese Hunter #1001 is approximately 10,388 feet. A twelve stage frac job was successfully completed in December 2010. The Weese Hunter #1001 well initially tested at a production rate (IP) of 7.0 mmcfe per day with flowing tubing pressures of 2350 psi on a 22/64 inch choke. The btu content of the well was measured at approximately 1,225. The Weese Hunter #1001 began producing into our Eureka Hunter pipeline system on December 22, 2010. The current EUR for the Weese Hunter #1001 is approximately 4 bcfe. The Company operates this well and owns a 100% working interest with a 84.3% net revenue interest.
The Company’s second horizontal well in this area of the Marcellus Shale was the Weese Hunter #1003, located in Tyler County. The Company spud the Weese Hunter #1003 in October 2010 and reached total vertical depth of approximately 6,360 feet in November 2010. The well’s horizontal leg extends approximately 2,984 feet. Total measured depth for the Weese Hunter #1003 is approximately 10,151 feet. A twelve stage frac job was successfully completed in January 2011. The Weese Hunter #1003 well initially tested at a production rate (IP) of 5.45 mmcfe per day. The Weese Hunter #1003 began producing into our Eureka Hunter pipeline system on January 24, 2011.
Good morning; I had a great conversation yesterday with Mr. Seckman of Tyler County FFA Alumni, they are having their FFA Auction April 21st with breakfast starting at 7am, and auction starting at 10am...Please come out and support the local FFA Alumni and get some food prior to the start of our 5 STAR Landowners educational meeting. We look forward to another good turnout as our guest speaker will be Robert Cupp of Wesbanco,talking to us about investments and financial opportunities. I hope to see you all there. Come early and stay late!
The next Western Tyler Mineral and Landowner Group meeting is at 6:00 PM, on Friday, May 11, 2012 at the Little Methodist Church in Friendly WV. Meetings are open to all mineral and landowners.
Our guest speaker will be one of West Virginia University’s top geology researchers, Dr. Tim Carr, the Marshall S. Miller Professor of Energy in the Department of Geography and Geology in the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences.
For directions or more information call: 304-771-1063.
Information + Education + Patience + Cooperation = Better Results
Royalty or Bonus? I created the attached spreadsheet to compare the income for royalty percentages from 12.5% - 21%. A Range Resources depletion curve was used to estimate the 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 year production for the Spencer #1115 well. I used 100 acre unit, $60 bbl for NGL, $3 for mcf NG. The red values on the bottom of the sheet are the $ return PER ACRE over a 5 year period. The chart indicates that every 1% increase in royalty creates a $1100 increase in income the first year and $2200 over the first 5 years. You can change the blue values (unit size, price per bbl and price per mcf) at the top of the sheet to see what effect it has on the PER ACRE values on the bottom of the sheet. I believe assumptions are reasonable and the calculated royalties are at least in the ballpark. If I have made any gross errors please let me know and I will try to correct them. Always sacrifice bonus money to get a greater % royalty.
thank you for the info on the royalty side of the equation. Bonus dollars sometimes are used as a carrot. The spreadsheet is straight forward direct data that shows the true process and the long term impact.
The next Western Tyler Mineral and Landowner Group meeting is at 6:00 PM, on Friday, May 25, 2012 at the Little Methodist Church in Friendly WV. Meetings are open to all mineral and landowners. Major topic of discussion is lease clauses and review.
For directions or more information call: 304-771-1063 .
Information + Education + Patience + Cooperation = Better Results
The next Western Tyler Mineral and Landowner Group meeting is at 6:00 PM, on Friday, June 8, 2012 at the Little Methodist Church in Friendly WV. Meetings are open to all mineral and landowners. We will continue to review lease terms and clauses.
For directions or more information call: 304-771-1063 .
Information + Education + Patience + Cooperation = Better Results
Hello: We live in Tyler County where oil and gas conveyances were often referred and assessed as “royalty”. We have just received notice that the language of “royalty only” voids our mineral interest by an out of the area attorney. In Tyler and Wetzel Counties, it was common to interchange the two and they were assessed accordingly. Has anyone had any success in fighting this. The intent was to convey oil and gas (royalties), not take it away 100 yrs later. Advice and or a good attorney would be greatly appreciated.
I am paying taxes on it, it is what the attorney's say regarding the matter and what they are willing to certify to. The Assessor and Local Attorneys agree Royalty and Mineral interest were used interchangeabley and the intent was to convey. Its the out-of-town attorneys that are having issues with it.
It has long been a legal precedent that the terms "royalty" and "mineral interests" are synonymous in West Virginia, until the 1980s. Regardless, what a attorney's title opinion is, this will probably have to be litigated and a court will have the final say. You need to immediately retain an attorney and have him contest this. Any of the attorneys in Tyler County are more than capable of handling this. I am partial to Dean Rohrig because of his experience, although I have only dealt with him on leasing matters, but I have clients who are very pleased with his work.
We have a lot of interests in another county on some very old leases that just state "royalty interests". Are you saying that they should/can be considered mineral interests? If so that would be some welcome news. I am sure it would depend on the writing in the deed/lease, but from what I remember, the leases did not specifically exclude mineral rights.
Mr. White makes a good point about intent. If there were producing wells on the tract in question when it was conveyed to another party, then this may mean that the previous owner retained or reserved the "royalty", however, in most of the old deeds, as I stated before, royalty refers to the oil and gas interests-the mineral interests. Reserving the royalty, while not retaining the mineral interests is very rare in Tyler County, based on research that I have personally done. There have been at least four periods of aggressive O & G exploration and production in Tyler County, so most mineral owners were keenly aware of the value of their mineral interest and depending on when your mineral interests were severed from the surface, a cursory look at other deeds that were issued at that time would have similar language, as they were probably written by the same lawyer or lawyers who practiced in Tyler County during those years.
Jim-I am uncertain about what you mean about "royalty interests" on "leases". I am specifically referring to a mineral reservation made in a deed of conveyance, where the Grantor reserves all or part of the mineral interests. In that case, in the past, the terms "1/8 royalty", "royalty", "oil & gas" and others have been used to indicate a severance of the minerals. The deed which severs, or attempts to sever the minerals would be what a court would use to determine the intent of the Grantor, if he or she was not living to give testimony, based upon the wording of this deed and others written in the same time frame, by the same authors. One reason for this confusion is old leases used to be Delay Rental-meaning that the only income derived from the lease was and oil and/or gas royalty payment if a well was drilled and produced, or a payment-usually $ 50 or $ 75 dollars per quarter during the term of the lease, if no well was drilled. Paid Up leases, which are fairly recent instruments in WV allow the person with leasing rights to receive the bonus payment, and someone who only has a right to the "royalty" only gets money if a well is productive. As I said, though, it is very rare to find anyone in Tyler County with royalty rights, who doesn't also have the mineral, (i.e. leasing) rights, although a common situation is if a family member give an older son or daughter leasing rights by will, but gives other family members land with royalty rights. The older son, daughter or their heirs may maintain the leasing rights, while the heirs of the othr children retain royalty rights of the property. In a family situation, it is not uncommon for the minerals to not have a separate tax ticket, and although one family member has the executive (leasing) rights, he is taxed the same as the children with royalty rights only. I believe that "Gas Girl", or anyone else for that matter should not give up any rights or acquiese to anybody's opinion, unless compelling evidence is presented that they have no leasing rights.
I initially was going to add a comment to Gas Girls post when I reread your post. I practiced with my brother who was circuit judge of Tyler for many years and we discussed the royalty issue quite a bit since it came up in his court and in his private practice as well as with our families interests. Unfortunately this was over 30 years ago and I am unclear as to everything that was said. When I was getting the deeds for one of the county, I came up with several which stated that the Grantors conveyed a half (whatever) royalty interest in certain pieces of land. I though this was the issue in Gas Girls case where her deed stated royalties, not mineral interests just as some of ours did. I am pretty sure that my brother assumed these were royalty conveyances (for profits from production) and not mineral interest, since we did talk about the fact that he thought our royalty interests should be taxed along with our mineral interests. Long story. When I saw your post, I though that maybe the language of our deeds could be construed as mineral interests, or in fact should be construed that way. Unfortunately, the man who mapped most of our interests from these deeds somehow lost the ones from this county which took me two weeks to collect! and I am uncertain as to the exact language in the deed. We may be talking about different issues. I will leave this one to you experts!
Are you "Jim White" from NYC? If so, I am hoping to give you some definitive information on the mineral interest very soon. I believe-just from what you have shared-that it is very possible that the "royalty" you refer to is, indeed, mineral interest. In my experience, some owners sold interest in certain wells to individuals or to O & G companies, like South Penn, but in conveyances of the surface, they usually witheld at least 1/2 minerals for themselves. I look at the 1/2 minerals they conveyed to the purchaser of the tract as a "sweetener", to make the sale proceed smoothly. In instances where there was existing production, rarely, unless the sale was to family members, would any minerals be conveyed, only the "use of free gas", as many deeds read.
Yes that's me and I just sent you an email stating that I should stick with pretty much what I know best......which is not much! Did you know Harry Moats, the oil and gas lawyer from Harrisville?
The next Western Tyler Mineral and Landowner Group meeting is at 6:00 PM, on Friday, June 29, 2012 at the Little Methodist Church in Friendly WV. Meetings are open to all mineral and landowners. We will continue to review lease terms and clauses.
For directions or more information call: 304-771-1063
Information + Education + Patience + Cooperation = Better Results
Bob Donaghy
Sep 16, 2010
David Spencer
Sep 16, 2010
Beth
If you hear anything will you please post on here? I will keep my fingers crossed!!
Sep 16, 2010
Bob Donaghy
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Planned-Appalachian-Gathering-prnews-...
Sep 17, 2010
Rick Clark
http://www.news-register.net/page/content.detail/id/541903.html?nav...
Sep 19, 2010
Bob Donaghy
http://www.wtrf.com/story.cfm?func=viewstory&storyid=86504
Sep 23, 2010
Mary Carter Beary
Oct 19, 2010
Rick Clark
if we are related some how, i am not aware of it.
Oct 19, 2010
Mr Ford
Oct 20, 2010
Rick Clark
things are kind of slow on leasing right now, someone will no doubt get a hold of you. they have landmen working the courthouses all the time. chesapeake has leased is in the $ 1000 per acre 15 % range in some districts in marion, monongalia & tyler havent heard much on doddridge they are doing a good bit of grilling there , just have not heard many offers. when all the pipe lines are reworked and completed, should help leasing in these counties, we want you to get a fair deal, usually if there is an offer someone will post it. be sure your a member of Doddrige county, so they will send a notification when there is a new post.
Oct 21, 2010
Bob Donaghy
Does anyone know someone who signed with Chesapeake following the February meeting? In what part of Tyler County is their property located?
Oct 21, 2010
Bob Donaghy
http://www.theintelligencer.net/page/content.detail/id/548341/Chesa...
Nov 1, 2010
Bob Donaghy
http://theintelligencer.net/page/content.detail/id/548719/Consol-St...
Nov 10, 2010
Bob Donaghy
Dec 9, 2010
Bob Donaghy
Here is some news from Magnum Hunter. I may be overly optimistic, but if you read between the lines this could be very good news for Tyler Co mineral owners. Most of Magnum Hunters' oil and gas lease holdings are in the Tyler/Pleasants County area. Therefore, this news release indicating "highly liquids rich, in the 1,200 Btu to 1,400 Btu range" must be referring to our gas..http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Magnum-Hunter-Resources-Commits-Purchase-200-MMcf-per-Day-Capacity-Cryogenic-Natural-NYSE-Amex-MHR-1370903.htm
Dec 21, 2010
Bob Donaghy
Dec 23, 2010
Beth
Feb 7, 2011
Beth
Feb 7, 2011
Mary Carter Beary
Feb 7, 2011
Beth
Feb 7, 2011
Bob Donaghy
Feb 10, 2011
David Spencer
Feb 10, 2011
JK
I must tell you all that this very day I was negativley advised about Magnum by my attorney. You can google them to see court actions.
Be very careful and seek legal advice on any negotiations.
Feb 10, 2011
JK
Feb 10, 2011
Bob Donaghy
Read more: http://www.faqs.org/sec-filings/110218/MAGNUM-HUNTER-RESOURCES-CORP...
Mar 4, 2011
Beth
Does anyone know the name of the pipline company that has the landing site out Wick Road(by Twin Hickories)?
Jul 14, 2011
James Milleson
Good morning; I had a great conversation yesterday with Mr. Seckman of Tyler County FFA Alumni, they are having their FFA Auction April 21st with breakfast starting at 7am, and auction starting at 10am...Please come out and support the local FFA Alumni and get some food prior to the start of our 5 STAR Landowners educational meeting. We look forward to another good turnout as our guest speaker will be Robert Cupp of Wesbanco,talking to us about investments and financial opportunities. I hope to see you all there. Come early and stay late!
Mar 27, 2012
Mark Allen
Next 5 STAR LANDOWNERS meeting is 1pm on the 19th of May, location is the Log cabin building on the fairgrounds in Tyler county.
May 5, 2012
TylerCH4Us
The next Western Tyler Mineral and Landowner Group meeting is at 6:00 PM, on Friday, May 11, 2012 at the Little Methodist Church in Friendly WV. Meetings are open to all mineral and landowners.
Our guest speaker will be one of West Virginia University’s top geology researchers, Dr. Tim Carr, the Marshall S. Miller Professor of Energy in the Department of Geography and Geology in the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences.
For directions or more information call: 304-771-1063.
Information + Education + Patience + Cooperation = Better Results
Check out our group's new website: www.tylerch4us.com
May 6, 2012
Bob Donaghy
Royalty or Bonus? I created the attached spreadsheet to compare the income for royalty percentages from 12.5% - 21%. A Range Resources depletion curve was used to estimate the 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 year production for the Spencer #1115 well. I used 100 acre unit, $60 bbl for NGL, $3 for mcf NG. The red values on the bottom of the sheet are the $ return PER ACRE over a 5 year period. The chart indicates that every 1% increase in royalty creates a $1100 increase in income the first year and $2200 over the first 5 years. You can change the blue values (unit size, price per bbl and price per mcf) at the top of the sheet to see what effect it has on the PER ACRE values on the bottom of the sheet. I believe assumptions are reasonable and the calculated royalties are at least in the ballpark. If I have made any gross errors please let me know and I will try to correct them. Always sacrifice bonus money to get a greater % royalty.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0An1tGTlpPDvVdDRhdlhLMU...
May 14, 2012
Mark Allen
Bob,
thank you for the info on the royalty side of the equation. Bonus dollars sometimes are used as a carrot. The spreadsheet is straight forward direct data that shows the true process and the long term impact.
May 15, 2012
TylerCH4Us
The next Western Tyler Mineral and Landowner Group meeting is at 6:00 PM, on Friday, May 25, 2012 at the Little Methodist Church in Friendly WV. Meetings are open to all mineral and landowners. Major topic of discussion is lease clauses and review.
For directions or more information call: 304-771-1063 .
Information + Education + Patience + Cooperation = Better Results
www.tylerch4us.com
May 24, 2012
TylerCH4Us
The next Western Tyler Mineral and Landowner Group meeting is at 6:00 PM, on Friday, June 8, 2012 at the Little Methodist Church in Friendly WV. Meetings are open to all mineral and landowners. We will continue to review lease terms and clauses.
For directions or more information call: 304-771-1063 .
Information + Education + Patience + Cooperation = Better Results
www.tylerch4us.com
Jun 3, 2012
Gas Girl
Hello: We live in Tyler County where oil and gas conveyances were often referred and assessed as “royalty”. We have just received notice that the language of “royalty only” voids our mineral interest by an out of the area attorney. In Tyler and Wetzel Counties, it was common to interchange the two and they were assessed accordingly. Has anyone had any success in fighting this. The intent was to convey oil and gas (royalties), not take it away 100 yrs later. Advice and or a good attorney would be greatly appreciated.
Jun 12, 2012
Nancy Mosley
Hi Gas Girl,
What does the assessor's office say about it? OGM? or something else? This would be on the yearly tax bill.
Nancy Mosley
Jun 12, 2012
Gas Girl
I am paying taxes on it, it is what the attorney's say regarding the matter and what they are willing to certify to. The Assessor and Local Attorneys agree Royalty and Mineral interest were used interchangeabley and the intent was to convey. Its the out-of-town attorneys that are having issues with it.
Jun 13, 2012
Ken Barton
It has long been a legal precedent that the terms "royalty" and "mineral interests" are synonymous in West Virginia, until the 1980s. Regardless, what a attorney's title opinion is, this will probably have to be litigated and a court will have the final say. You need to immediately retain an attorney and have him contest this. Any of the attorneys in Tyler County are more than capable of handling this. I am partial to Dean Rohrig because of his experience, although I have only dealt with him on leasing matters, but I have clients who are very pleased with his work.
Jun 13, 2012
Gas Girl
Thank you Ken.
Jun 13, 2012
Ken Barton
You're very welcome. Good Luck!
Jun 13, 2012
Jim White
Ken
We have a lot of interests in another county on some very old leases that just state "royalty interests". Are you saying that they should/can be considered mineral interests? If so that would be some welcome news. I am sure it would depend on the writing in the deed/lease, but from what I remember, the leases did not specifically exclude mineral rights.
Jun 13, 2012
Ken Barton
Mr. White makes a good point about intent. If there were producing wells on the tract in question when it was conveyed to another party, then this may mean that the previous owner retained or reserved the "royalty", however, in most of the old deeds, as I stated before, royalty refers to the oil and gas interests-the mineral interests. Reserving the royalty, while not retaining the mineral interests is very rare in Tyler County, based on research that I have personally done. There have been at least four periods of aggressive O & G exploration and production in Tyler County, so most mineral owners were keenly aware of the value of their mineral interest and depending on when your mineral interests were severed from the surface, a cursory look at other deeds that were issued at that time would have similar language, as they were probably written by the same lawyer or lawyers who practiced in Tyler County during those years.
Jun 13, 2012
Ken Barton
Jim-I am uncertain about what you mean about "royalty interests" on "leases". I am specifically referring to a mineral reservation made in a deed of conveyance, where the Grantor reserves all or part of the mineral interests. In that case, in the past, the terms "1/8 royalty", "royalty", "oil & gas" and others have been used to indicate a severance of the minerals. The deed which severs, or attempts to sever the minerals would be what a court would use to determine the intent of the Grantor, if he or she was not living to give testimony, based upon the wording of this deed and others written in the same time frame, by the same authors. One reason for this confusion is old leases used to be Delay Rental-meaning that the only income derived from the lease was and oil and/or gas royalty payment if a well was drilled and produced, or a payment-usually $ 50 or $ 75 dollars per quarter during the term of the lease, if no well was drilled. Paid Up leases, which are fairly recent instruments in WV allow the person with leasing rights to receive the bonus payment, and someone who only has a right to the "royalty" only gets money if a well is productive. As I said, though, it is very rare to find anyone in Tyler County with royalty rights, who doesn't also have the mineral, (i.e. leasing) rights, although a common situation is if a family member give an older son or daughter leasing rights by will, but gives other family members land with royalty rights. The older son, daughter or their heirs may maintain the leasing rights, while the heirs of the othr children retain royalty rights of the property. In a family situation, it is not uncommon for the minerals to not have a separate tax ticket, and although one family member has the executive (leasing) rights, he is taxed the same as the children with royalty rights only. I believe that "Gas Girl", or anyone else for that matter should not give up any rights or acquiese to anybody's opinion, unless compelling evidence is presented that they have no leasing rights.
Jun 13, 2012
David Spencer
He is reasonable and knows everyone as he was prosecuting attorney for many years.
Jun 13, 2012
Ken Barton
He is a fine man, very capable and extremely knowledgeable about Tyler County.
Jun 13, 2012
Jim White
Ken
I initially was going to add a comment to Gas Girls post when I reread your post. I practiced with my brother who was circuit judge of Tyler for many years and we discussed the royalty issue quite a bit since it came up in his court and in his private practice as well as with our families interests. Unfortunately this was over 30 years ago and I am unclear as to everything that was said. When I was getting the deeds for one of the county, I came up with several which stated that the Grantors conveyed a half (whatever) royalty interest in certain pieces of land. I though this was the issue in Gas Girls case where her deed stated royalties, not mineral interests just as some of ours did. I am pretty sure that my brother assumed these were royalty conveyances (for profits from production) and not mineral interest, since we did talk about the fact that he thought our royalty interests should be taxed along with our mineral interests. Long story. When I saw your post, I though that maybe the language of our deeds could be construed as mineral interests, or in fact should be construed that way. Unfortunately, the man who mapped most of our interests from these deeds somehow lost the ones from this county which took me two weeks to collect! and I am uncertain as to the exact language in the deed. We may be talking about different issues. I will leave this one to you experts!
Jun 13, 2012
Ken Barton
Are you "Jim White" from NYC? If so, I am hoping to give you some definitive information on the mineral interest very soon. I believe-just from what you have shared-that it is very possible that the "royalty" you refer to is, indeed, mineral interest. In my experience, some owners sold interest in certain wells to individuals or to O & G companies, like South Penn, but in conveyances of the surface, they usually witheld at least 1/2 minerals for themselves. I look at the 1/2 minerals they conveyed to the purchaser of the tract as a "sweetener", to make the sale proceed smoothly. In instances where there was existing production, rarely, unless the sale was to family members, would any minerals be conveyed, only the "use of free gas", as many deeds read.
Jun 13, 2012
Jim White
Yes that's me and I just sent you an email stating that I should stick with pretty much what I know best......which is not much! Did you know Harry Moats, the oil and gas lawyer from Harrisville?
Jun 13, 2012
Ken Barton
I have not met him yet, but I'm sure he is a member or is involved with the local AAPL chapter. I'll look for him.
Jun 13, 2012
TylerCH4Us
The next Western Tyler Mineral and Landowner Group meeting is at 6:00 PM, on Friday, June 29, 2012 at the Little Methodist Church in Friendly WV. Meetings are open to all mineral and landowners. We will continue to review lease terms and clauses.
For directions or more information call: 304-771-1063
Information + Education + Patience + Cooperation = Better Results
www.tylerch4us.com
Jun 27, 2012
Bob Donaghy
http://channels.isp.netscape.com/news/story.jsp?floc=ne-main-9-l8&a...
Interesting article discussing cancer, radioactivity and drinking water contamination caused by natural gas drilling/fracking/etc.
Jul 22, 2012