Dimmit County, TX - Oil & Gas Discussion

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Comment by zen7118 on May 11, 2012 at 8:58am

Hi everyone, I am still trying to get information to lease mineral rights on a small piece of property (20 acres), between Asherton and Carrizo, located on Hwy 83, and have not been able to make contact with any oil companies.  Would even consider leasing surface rights for companies interested in establishing a business to support oil related activities.  If anyone has any leads on this, please let me know, I have not contacted any landman or lawyers since my land is not a large parcel of land, but any leads would certainly help.  Thanks! 

Comment by Stuart E. Isdale on January 13, 2012 at 8:28am

I don't know but 200 per acre seems low if the area is proven for sure! Good luck!

Comment by Geraldine Brown on January 11, 2012 at 2:39pm

I have mineral rights in the Winter Garden Area.  Have received an offer to lease 20 acres at $200. per.  Anyone know of activity in that area?

Comment by Stuart E. Isdale on January 6, 2012 at 8:27am

Interesting read Koonce - so far things have been pretty general dealing with Chesapeake in South Texas Eagle Ford Shale. Very slow in processing it seems thought or at least to me - into our 3rd year of our lease agreement and no wells as of to date but definately drilling all around us  and even on neighboring land owners - expecting something this year for sure - time will tell! Oh yea - the land man that set up the lease of our property was with a company out of Dallas - Joint Resourses or something like that - kinda felt like we were taken since shortly after the lease was purchased by Chesapeake!

Comment by Kevin B. Koonce on January 5, 2012 at 6:49pm

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/28/us-energy-giant-idUSTRE7B...

Comment by Stuart E. Isdale on November 27, 2011 at 10:48am

Actually live in Kingsville but do have relatives that will be at the ranch during Thanksgiving holiday - off of what is marked as Hearne Road - well being drilled right next to our property recently - currently negotiating a pipeline on our place. Good luck!

Comment by christy shinn on November 26, 2011 at 1:06pm

Hi, I am a student at Texas State University doing a project on Eagle Shale Ford. I need someone to interview about its effects on population and county lines in Dimmit county over the past ten years. I have tried numerous times to reach various people with no such luck. Please help if you can. This is strictly for a school assignment and will not be published, but an interview through phone or email is required.

My contact info is:

Christy Shinn

Christyshinn@gmail.com

409-256-7508

Comment by Hope Balderas on June 27, 2011 at 9:23am

Jeff,   I'm having a problem with land we own since 2005 and have been paying taxes on since. I'm selling some of my 94.14 acres but when the buying company did a survey, only 47 acres were found; our land was surveyed by two separate companies and both found only 47 acres within our property fences. So where are the missing acres Dimmit County has been taxing us on?  Have already filed Protest with Appraisal District but any other ideas are welcomed.

Comment by Jeff Bullard on June 12, 2011 at 11:54pm

MIke,

We really aren't sure how this happened.  When we reviewed a copy of our deed and legal descriptions last Fall (that is when we started out really investigating our ownership down there) we noticed another companies name that had a larger interest of land which included our land.  Different ones mentioned that it shouldn't be a problem. 

After we signed a lease for SWD facility in January, we were made aware that their permitting process had been halted because of this.  The company stopped communicating with us, told us we wouldn't fare well in a legal fight to try to prove ownership, and ultimately we believe they have negotiated another deal with the "other" landowner.  The Lawyer we had worked with told us it wasn't worth the fight, but gave little to no explanation and was extremely high priced even if we were to want to investigate it could be costly.

 

I spoke with tax office and surveyor's offices in Dimmit County on Thursday of last week.  Everyone that I talked to assured us of our 100% ownership until I spoke with the appraisal office who had access to abstracts... I gave her the # we had on our documents and she finally found the info.  She began to give me a basic idea of what could have happened, but stopped short to tell me it would have to be worked through an attorney... I am not sure of what type of deed the other owner has or how it was acquired and I am not sure why our family was never notified of this change in 2005 and again in 2007 when land changed hands... but, this land has been in family since 1920's?

 

I am very novice (although learning something new weekly) in this process, but we are exactly where you said to determine the amount of cost in the fight versus the eventual pay off.  We signed a very nice SWD in January that was supposed to begin paying off in August/September with a fixed monthly rate that would pay out $30,000/year with an increase after 5 yrs...  But, we surely don't want to pay 4-5 figures lawyers fees to fight a battle that we don't stand a very good chance. 

 

I hope to get if nothing else some more info from Dimmit County, our original title company, and at least a basic consultation from a local lawyer this time... Hoping to find one that could give us some time for a decent price to see if that is a possibility.

 

Thank you Mike for your  help and any further info from you or anyone else is much appreciated!

 

On the up side, we have been able to finalize a mineral rights lease that should be signed and bonus payment made before end of June... so all is not lost!

 

Thanks again!

Comment by Mike Callis on June 12, 2011 at 9:49am

Jeff, I have experiended this land ownership situtation a lot over the years.  I'm not a landman, but I have been in real estate and appraising for 50 years and I have done much right-of-way work for highways.  Do you have any idea how this happened?  It might be a simple surveying error issue, either in the actual survey on the ground or in the prepartion of the legal description and/or how is was written.  It might be as simple as asking a surveyor to review the survey and the competing legal descriptions.  Maybe there is just an error that will be easily corrected. A suveyor shouldn't change much to do a desk review.  That being said, the most likely scenario is that you will have to have the deed issue resoved in court.  If your mineral rights are good, then weigh the cost of legal proceedings against the value of the ownership of land.  The cost to cure may be higher than the value of the land.

 

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