Mr. Cotten and Mr. Williams,
I thought you might like to know the latest on this post. This week, the Division Order Analyst got a letter from another mineral owner stating that she and her relatives had received .875 acre too much in their division orders. So, he said they were crediting us with that .875 and we would receive revised division orders.
Buddy Cotten said:
With the additional information that you are providing, ask the oil company if a survey was done. I will bet a hot dog that they did and you ended up with 7/8ths of an acre short. Just because the mineral deed says XXX acres, it generally goes on to say, “more or less” to account for lots of things - fences off a bit, increased accuracy of surveying instruments, slight shift of magnetic north, and it goes on and on.
Best, Buddy Cotten Mineral Manager