I'm new to "gomarcellusshale", as well as new to this business. We have a 152 acre farm with "Clinton" gas wells which supply our needs.
We've been approached by Fossil Creek Energy Corp (FCEC) for $50/acre, 12.5% Royalty, and $10,000 if a well is drilled. We are sitting on the Utica Strata. I've carefully read the lease and am very suspicious of the terms. We are consulting attorneys. I don't see any members from Noble County..and some interesting notes from Guernsey which lead me to suspect the FCEC lease. Can they broker a lease after signing "cheap"?
We have news of ARTEX Oil offering leases in our County, they're out of Marietta. Any comment on FCEC, ARTEX, and my suspicions would be welcomed!
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Bob,
I completely agree and I'll take mine rare! :-)
Scott: The reason property is supposedly more valuable bordering Guernsey Co has 2 possible reasons. One: it can be added to already leased land on the Guernsey side to increase a drilling unit. Two: there's a map circulating that shows shale oil only across the northern section of Noble Co that borders Guernsey Co, with the rest of Noble having wet gas. Other maps show all of Noble Co as oil shale as well as further south into Washington Co, so it depends which mapping they believe. I think Noble has oil because counties east of us and west of us are leased for oil, so the land in the middle, OURS, is probably not a dry hollow. We just have to wait for some test wells to prove it's oil, and then we'll see oil companies here offering at least similar amounts as they offered our neighbors. They're going to start low, because that's the precedent that's been set. But, they're running out of land to lease and they want all they can get. Remember there was an ad in the Jeffersonian wanting to hire "landmen" to invade Noble County 2 weeks ago, and I think that says it all.
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