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Permalink Reply by Booger on May 14, 2015 at 1:07am

which unit? county, twp, name etc.

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Permalink Reply by 0ym9x5ag7ury2 on May 14, 2015 at 3:03am

Aaron,

     Booger is right. Once you have the Unit name, we can go on the ODNR Well Locator website.

The Well Locator Map the plat maps located with each well.

http://oilandgas.ohiodnr.gov/well-information/oil-gas-well-locator

https://gis.ohiodnr.gov/website/dog/oilgasviewer/

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Permalink Reply by G.H. on May 14, 2015 at 3:27am

Could be that your entire parcel was not included in the unit, only a portion.  Or that they resurveyed your property for the division order/unit plat and used that acreage.  Check out the ODNR website as mentioned to get a copy of the plat.

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Permalink Reply by Brian Werner on May 18, 2015 at 10:25am

Aaron:
If you're in Carroll County, OH go to the county website www.carrollcountyohio.net. Then go to the Recorder's page and do a Property Search. This will link you to another site. Type in the unit name and look for Lease documents. One of these should be a Declaration of Pooled Unit. This will have a map of the unit and the actual acreage CHK is using to calculate your interest in the Division Order. In my case the actual unit size did not match the unit size on the ODNR website. When I contacted CHK they told me they go by the unit size on file at the court house not by the size filed with ODNR. I didn't get a good explanation as to why they are different. I assume other counties have similar websites.

Another factor that I ran into is existing vertical well units. These are given precedence over your actual acreage in the horizontal well and can make the net calculation quite complicated. For example if you have 20 acres in a horizontal unit but 10 are also in a 40 acre vertical unit and only 20 of the vertical are in the horizontal: You will have your ten outside of the vertical plus your interest in the vertical on all of the vertical that is in the horizontal. In my example you have 10/40 =.25 of the vertical. there are 20 vertical unit acres in the horizontal so you will get paid for .25 x 20 = 5 net acres in addition to what you have solely in the horizontal. In this case you physically have 20 acres in the unit but your net acres are only 15. This means that you may have a neighbor that has 20 acres in the vertical and zero in the horizontal will have a net interest of 20/40 ( his % in the vertical) x 20 ( vertical % in the horizontal)= 10 net acres of interest in the horizontal without having any physical acres in the horizontal.

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