I bought this old farm that has a shut-in well. When we transferred the deed, all I got was a list of what oil company had equipment on the wellsite, most of which is missing. It took nearly 10 years to finally get a royalty check because a secretary made a mistake and contacted me. I found out they were sending royalty checks to the previous owner. I had to sue to get that straightened out, but the secretary’s files were lost when they were transferring them from paper to microfilm.
Joseph, are you saying the lease was never recorded? If it’s an old lease from before the memorandum of lease became common, a copy of the lease could be as close as your county recorder’s office.
Good morning there were pages recorded but it wasn’t anything pertinent, the amount of pipe in ground, pumpjack gauges but nothing telling how much gas I was entitled to whether the lease was pooled or not.
Joseph, looks like a lawyer is necessary. If they claim no copy of the lease exists, and the lease was never recorded, maybe there is no lease.