Allocation of royalties in 3 mile long Bullsnake1404A

I initially suspected that the answer to your question would be as simple as your section not having as much wellbore in the productive zone due to the transitional zone between the vertical and lateral sections of the well. The drill bit doesn’t go down a “y-axis” to total vertical depth and then shoot out at a right angle and travel along the lateral “x-axis”. Instead, there is a sizeable curved transition zone connecting the vertical and lateral segments. I thought you might have lost out due to the curve not being able to be fracked.

But after looking at the RRC permit and the Bullsnake well plat, I am thinking that your division order may be informed by the pro rata productive lengths of the well bore in each of the three sections. The plat shows that from the drilling pad, the wellbore is drilled in a southwesterly direction toward the west section line of section 14. From there the wellbore appears to run parallel to all of the west section lines, which is not what the RRC map viewer shows. The plat indicates that the First Take Point in Section 14 is 467’ north of the south section line and that the Last Take Point nearly three miles away is also 467’ from the north section line. The same plat has a chart which reveals the “Effective Lateral” lengths for three tracts:
Tract 1 - 4823’ [your tract, Sec 14] Tract 2 - 5288’ Tract 3 - 4819’ ——————– FTP to LTP - 14,930’

If the division order production distribution percentages were solely a function of the effective lateral lengths divided by 14,930’, your it seems as if Tract 1 would be 0.3230409 which is roughly the expected 1/3 given three sections. As I have stressed in other posts, I am a layperson outside of my ken here, so take with a grain of salt my guess that for whatever reason(s), your tract’s portion of the wellbore received fewer total fracked feet per running foot of wellbore within the FTP-LTP length and that your lease allows the company to divvy up the production in this way. Hopefully a forum expert will come along and correct deficiencies and outright errors in my post.

plat map: https://webapps.rrc.state.tx.us/dpimages/img/8200000-8299999//PR0008268671_0001.pdf

permit: Form W-1: Field List

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