I think at this point a lawyer would be best. One might do for per cent of any lease you got and you would not have to pay unless you got a new lease. My Dad had a lawyer write a letter to an oil company that was holding a lease by producing a little each month. It was back in the 80s and after the letter they abandoned the well.
Larry is right, contact a lawyer. What you have already is a disagreement over a contract (lease). Make sure you know what the fee is. A percent of a new lease bonus is easy enough to agree on.
R.W., thanks. I’ll check into it.
What if I contacted Continental directly? Do I have to go through the landman?
R.W. and Larry, thanks for the input. I really appreciate this forum. Larry, I know what you’re talking about when you say they were trying to hold the lease with very little production. We know of some marginal wells around here that are being given some TLC in order to hold the lease.
Angela, if it’s slander of title as I think it is, you may recover legal fees and punitive damages. A lawyer may take your case on contingency for a slice of the punitive damages.
Lori, the OCC website has a lot of information avaliable if you have the time and patience to dig through it. It’s turned into sort of a hobby for me, so if you don’t feel like messing with it let me know and I will try to find it for you.
Michael Continental must have moved the rig from your site at 2-3N-5W, They spuuded it on 1-11-2012.
Lori look up under Continentals webite and get phonenumber of a field office clost to you and give them a call about the status of your well, I called the office close to Michaels and my well and about one day after i called a manager called me back and answered the questions i had about our wells and gave up dates they were shooting at to frack our wells bye.
Found this online very interesting! http://certmapper.cr.usgs.gov/data/noga95/prov58/text/prov58.pdf
Richard, I took your advise about calling the land office closest to the drilling site. They were able to tell me the well was completed and began production on November 7th. Thank you Richard and Michael, for the information you have helped me with. I really appreciate both of you taking the time to help.
How do I find the land office closest to the drilling site in Thomas, OKlahoma, for Devon?
Linda the only thing i could find is Devon Central Land divison 405-228-4800 option 5, i hope this helps
In early January 2012, the Company finished drilling and began completing the Tom’s 1-21XH (84% WI) in the Blaine County portion of the Anadarko Woodford play. The Tom’s 1-21XH is the first multiple-unit spaced well drilled in Oklahoma. The horizontal section of the Tom’s well is twice the length of previous Anadarko Woodford wells drilled in the play. Continental expects longer laterals in the Anadarko Woodford will have a significant, positive impact on well productivity and economics.
The Tom’s 1-21XH was drilled to total depth of 20,532 feet (including a 9,995-foot lateral) in just 47 days, 11 days faster than expected. Continental successfully stimulated the Tom’s well in 26 stages and is preparing to begin well-test operations.
Continental is currently drilling its second cross-unit well in Blaine County, Oklahoma.
The Company currently has 12 operated drilling rigs in the Anadarko Woodford, with plans to average 10 rigs in the play in the final three quarters of 2012. Activity is focused on high-liquids areas in the Northwest and Southeast Cana.
Continental Resources:
The company is scheduled to report financial results Feb. 22.
Thanks, Richard.
J.W., Anything prior to June 2010 is in the Well Browse Archive on the OCC website. Last reported production for that well(the Horne?) was for 2009, 585MCF. I don’t know what happened to the reporting process after 2010 , there is very little to be found on the New Well Browse.
I recently came to own some mineral rights in 24-17N-12W. This area is on the edge of Woodford shale production, but it is supposed HBP by Chesapeake, although it appears to be inactive. If anyone has access to the data, I would appreciate any information about recent production. The OCC website shows 0 (gas) for many years, but I don’t trust their production records. Thanks.
Thanks, Michael. It’s been almost 3 years (March 2009) since any production has been reported (and that was in the old archived database). I’m really needing to know if there has been any production in the last 3 years, or if the production is just missing from the new OCC database. I was hoping someone who has a subscription to an external service might be able to doube-check this for me. The subscription rates for sites like drillinginfo.com are out of sight, and not geared for the occasional user.
If there has been no production, I would like to pursue getting the existing lease terminated, as the leasing terms were not favorable at all.
Devon mentioned they would focus on the core of the Cana Woodford. What is considered the core area?
Devon said on their webcast today that they plan to drill 200 more wells in the Cana this year.