Hello folks, I thank you for your answers and help in advance on my hopefully intelligent questions regarding well royalty payments, versus well production and verificatin of both.

I live on the NW corner of Mahoning County, just south of the Mahoning/Trumbull county line near SR534 & I76. Cheaspeake, recently  (last fall 2010) drilled a series of wells, both the main vertical and several horizontal wells on my neighbors land. They are currently digging a line from the…