I recently found out that an oil company drilled from their lease, went right under and next to our producing wells then shot back into their leased land and now have producing wells. So the legs on the oil and gas map show a trail going from the other guys not pooled with us, right into our pooled and producing gas area…is this legal? The other guys show 4 wells drilled in a row but it seems they are stealing from us. Does this sound legal at all?
I'm guessing the operator of your lease assigned a portion (Deeper formations) of the lease to the operator of the horizontal unit. If that's the case, then yes, it's perfectly normal and legal. You will likely be paid for the portion of production that occurs on your lease from the horizontal unit.
Oh ok, I guess I wouldn’t know if that’s in fact happening but I do feel better about it, thank you very much.