# Delineation of mineral rights interests
**URL:** https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/delineation-of-mineral-rights-interests/29671
**Category:** Grady County, OK
**Created:** [July 22, 2018, 7:27pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/delineation-of-mineral-rights-interests/29671 "2018-07-22T19:27:41Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Dan\_Williams](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Dan_Williams)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2018, 7:27pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/delineation-of-mineral-rights-interests/29671/1 "2018-07-22T19:27:41Z")
Scenario: A person(s) hold rights to 50 mineral acres in a 100-acre tract of land. How are those 50 mineral acres delineated? In other words, where are those 50 mineral acres if those acres are not surface acres? What’s the breakdown?
I’m new to this forum. We just realized that there are potential royalty payments that we were not aware of until just recently. We understand that a lot of folks are in this same situation. It turns out that the Oklahoma Corporation Commission and the treasury departments are sitting on what amount to hundreds of millions of dollars. I am on a learning curve here so please bear with me.
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### Author:  [@Jeffrey\_Beunier](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Jeffrey_Beunier)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2018, 9:04pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/delineation-of-mineral-rights-interests/29671/2 "2018-07-22T21:04:11Z")
Easiest to think of it as 50% of the 100 acres.
You own 50 of the 100 but unless it’s a specific 50 carved from the 100, you own an interest in all 100 acres. In your example you would own 50/100ths or 50%.
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### Author:  [@Dan\_Williams](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Dan_Williams)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2018, 11:29pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/delineation-of-mineral-rights-interests/29671/3 "2018-07-22T23:29:48Z")
Thanks for your quick response. This is a good thing!
So, let’s say that in the example the 100 acres is a square tract of land. Let’s then suppose that we make four 25-acre quadrants. Let’s further suppose that minerals (oil or gas, for example) are found in the SW quadrant and the well is producing. If I have a 50% interest in all 100 acres, how are my interests, or royalties doled out?
Doesn’t it matter where they physically find minerals? Or, would I reap 50% of what is extracted from the surface land no matter where minerals are found (assuming that the 50 acres are not carved out)?
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### Author:  [@Jeffrey\_Beunier](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Jeffrey_Beunier)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2018, 12:26am UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/delineation-of-mineral-rights-interests/29671/4 "2018-07-23T00:26:20Z")
If you own an ‘undivided’ 50 net acres out of a gross 100 acres then it doesn’t matter where on the 100 acres oil/gas is found.
You share proportionally in all the acreage.
If you own 50 acres in a specific quadrant then it would matter where the oil/gas is found and you would only be entitled to production if the well crossed your acreage.
Units/pooling is the same. If you own acreage in a section and the unit size is 640 then you will be entitled to a proportion of the production from the entire unit regardless of whether the well was drilling through your acreage or not, just as long as you were included in the unit and there’s a well in the unit.
This is due to the fact that a well drains an area that extends beyond the well bore.
And by minerals I’m referring to oil and gas, not hardrock or soft minerals.
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### Author:  [@Dan\_Williams](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Dan_Williams)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2018, 8:14pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/delineation-of-mineral-rights-interests/29671/5 "2018-07-23T20:14:33Z")
Hi Jeffery,
This is great information! Thank you so much for your response. No telling how many questions I will ask you guys over the near future.
The website is pretty awesome.
Dan
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### Author:  [@Richard\_Winblad](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Richard_Winblad)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2018, 10:01pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/delineation-of-mineral-rights-interests/29671/6 "2018-07-23T22:01:43Z")
Dan: You will find that this site is very useful and you generally get very good input from the members. When leasing or dealing with other issues an attorney can be worth his or her weight.
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### Author:  [@Dan\_Williams](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Dan_Williams)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2018, 3:38pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/delineation-of-mineral-rights-interests/29671/7 "2018-07-24T15:38:26Z")
Hi Richard,
I have a feeling I am going to get a really good education being involved with this forum. I do have an attorney. And, part of this quest is for me to get up to speed on things and then see what would be most useful to their office so they can get up to speed. Since I’m basically new to this stuff, they are too.
Thanks…
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### Author:  [@Darrel\_Munsey](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Darrel_Munsey)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2018, 4:43pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/delineation-of-mineral-rights-interests/29671/8 "2018-07-24T16:43:03Z")
I have a 50 most asked questions about Oklahoma title that I can share if you want. email me, [darrel.munsey@gmail.com](mailto:darrel.munsey@gmail.com)
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### Author:  [@Jeffrey\_Beunier](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Jeffrey_Beunier)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2018, 5:52pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/delineation-of-mineral-rights-interests/29671/9 "2018-07-24T17:52:43Z")
Can you post to the site?
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### Author:  [@Darrel\_Munsey](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Darrel_Munsey)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2018, 6:07pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/delineation-of-mineral-rights-interests/29671/10 "2018-07-24T18:07:30Z")
Oklahoma title information.
[AAPL info sharing Oklahoma 50 questions.pdf](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/uploads/db5755/original/2X/6/669734af7f252374c0e2b9f8eeda41ca79183694.pdf) (2.06 MB)
[AAPL Oklahoma COMMON TITLE ISSUES-1.rtf](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/uploads/db5755/original/2X/9/90f8f0a3682d8598c2783d0db190b254d0b45fb1.rtf) (381 KB)
[AAPL Oklahoma statutory Pugh clause and Ad Valorem Taxes.docx](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/uploads/db5755/original/2X/f/f2f4705ced28706a85ed2b9f8bdf92474bb87946.docx) (14.5 KB)
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### Author:  [@pdcall](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/pdcall)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2018, 6:58pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/delineation-of-mineral-rights-interests/29671/11 "2018-07-24T18:58:07Z")
I have not figured out how to do it since the change over.
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### Author:  [@Darla\_Charlow\_Ragland](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Darla_Charlow_Ragland)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2018, 8:08pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/delineation-of-mineral-rights-interests/29671/12 "2018-07-24T20:08:56Z")
Good information. Thank you for posting. Every mineral owner should read this.
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### Author:  [@Jeffrey\_Beunier](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Jeffrey_Beunier)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2018, 10:14pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/delineation-of-mineral-rights-interests/29671/13 "2018-07-24T22:14:14Z")
Thank you.
I found a clean version of the ‘50 questions’ pdf and will upload
[AAPL info sharing Oklahoma 50 questions.pdf](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/uploads/db5755/original/2X/b/b0c13bfd4d3bb8658f8a6d2d9d231a6338a912cd.pdf) (476.7 KB)
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### Author:  [@Jeffrey\_Beunier](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Jeffrey_Beunier)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2018, 10:17pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/delineation-of-mineral-rights-interests/29671/14 "2018-07-24T22:17:14Z")
When you hit reply, there is a little icon along the top bar of the text box that is along the top of the text box
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### Author:  [@Darrel\_Munsey](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Darrel_Munsey)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2018, 11:13pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/delineation-of-mineral-rights-interests/29671/15 "2018-07-24T23:13:48Z")
Jeffrey, the one you posted of for North Dakota. FYI
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### Author:  [@Dan\_Williams](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Dan_Williams)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2018, 12:20am UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/delineation-of-mineral-rights-interests/29671/16 "2018-07-25T00:20:27Z")
Hi Jeffery,
I was able to “post” my initial question using the “topic” button. This would be the correct way to post other messages, right?
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### Author:  [@Jeffrey\_Beunier](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Jeffrey_Beunier)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2018, 1:07am UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/delineation-of-mineral-rights-interests/29671/17 "2018-07-25T01:07:20Z")
Sorry, will report with the correct. Thanks for letting me know.
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### Author:  [@Jeffrey\_Beunier](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Jeffrey_Beunier)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2018, 1:07am UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/delineation-of-mineral-rights-interests/29671/18 "2018-07-25T01:07:59Z")
If they are new posts/questions, then I believe so.
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### Author:  [@Jeffrey\_Beunier](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Jeffrey_Beunier)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2018, 1:15am UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/delineation-of-mineral-rights-interests/29671/19 "2018-07-25T01:15:21Z")
[dowd-50-common-title-problems-1-21-12.doc](https://example.com/uploads/db5755/original/2X/8/8f082296be4e97691499e817d5eb59f1711ec21b.doc) (194 KB)
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### Author:  [@M\_Barnes](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/M_Barnes)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2018, 12:31pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/delineation-of-mineral-rights-interests/29671/20 "2018-07-25T12:31:33Z")
[S-T-R Legal Land Descriptions in OK\_Kletke-1.pdf](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/uploads/db5755/original/2X/d/d4f51c4fff323afca7b4ad8a69d1d2fab4251e97.pdf) (59.7 KB) You may find this article very helpful for visualizing your acreage.
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