# Finding my oil?
**URL:** https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/finding-my-oil/67668
**Category:** Oil and Gas Leasing Help
**Created:** [August 26, 2022, 7:31pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/finding-my-oil/67668 "2022-08-26T19:31:07Z")
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### Author:  [@cbgalot](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/cbgalot)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2022, 7:31pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/finding-my-oil/67668/1 "2022-08-26T19:31:07Z")
A few years ago I signed permissions to drill (or something like that) on what was my grandparents’ land in Seminole County, Oklahoma.
Drilling was delayed and delayed again. I lost track.
Recently I received a letter from some company wanting to buy my “producing mineral rights” in Seminole County.
I have no clue who to talk to. All family I was in contact with in the area have probably passed.
My first question is, how do I find out if it is producing and who is pumping it?
Total novice here.
Thanks for any help.
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### Author:  [@M\_Barnes](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/M_Barnes)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2022, 7:53pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/finding-my-oil/67668/2 "2022-08-26T19:53:27Z")
if you have the section, township and range, we can help you. If you got a generic letter with no exact description, you can probably ignore it. Lots of those go out all of the time. But it is a good idea to keep your records in order and find out if anything is missing.
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### Author:  [@M\_Barnes](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/M_Barnes)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2022, 1:25pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/finding-my-oil/67668/3 "2022-08-27T13:25:31Z")
Welcome to the forum. If you give the section, township and range, we can help you find out if there was ever drilling. We show you how to look up the information and find out who the operator is. If you did have drilling, there are methods to get into pay status.
There are quite a lot of mineral buyers out there that send out batch letters to buy acreage. Not all of them necessarily check to make sure that folks actually have producing acres. Just a form letter.
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### Author:  [@Richard\_Winblad](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Richard_Winblad)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2022, 8:25pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/finding-my-oil/67668/4 "2022-08-31T20:25:46Z")
If you don’t have the legal description, you may want to search by family name online. But Seminole County’s online records only go back to 1994.
[Seminole County | OKCountyRecords.com | County Clerk Public Land Records for Oklahoma](https://okcountyrecords.com/search/seminole#advanced-search)
You also may want to conduct a name search here:
#### [Oklahoma Unclaimed Property Search](https://apps.ok.gov/unclaimed/)
#### **[Oklahoma Mineral Interest Escrow Account Search](https://case.occ.ok.gov/ords/f?p=1004:203)**
_This post is not legal, investment or tax advice, it is for discussion purposes only. Reading or responding to this post does not create an attorney-client relationship._
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### Author:  [@system](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2022, 7:31pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/finding-my-oil/67668/5 "2022-11-24T19:31:42Z")
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