We own mineral rights in Eddy county that is held by a lease with Oxy on two recently plugged wells. They are plugged because Marathon put together the acreage to drill two mile laterals of which they have completed two in the south half of the section to our north, which supposedly includes our acreage in the north half of our section in a 1280 acre total tract. They will be drilling in our section at some point relatively soon based on the filings. My question is, should I receive division orders from Marathon, or since Oxy holds a decent amount of the acreage, will Oxy just send the checks through Marathon? Does that make any sense? Let me know if I left out any pertinent information.
Depends. Most likely Marathon, but Oxy could take in kind if the still own the leasehold.