I have been receiving documents that reference CD No 2025-002878, 2025-002879, 2025-002881. I have received several more, these are just the newest ones. What is this telling me?
I’m new to this mineral royalty stuff. My father left my brother and myself ORRI. I’m finished with my father’s probate in Grady County. I have been on OKCountyRecords and found an Order that has 217 legal descriptions. I have also been on Oklahoma Corp. Comm. Website and found info on several wells that my father received revenue. Some are Plugged and Abandoned, one is Shut in (found an Affidavit of Non-Consent Ownership from 2015), and several wells I have received Division Orders (sent letters instead of DO after reading several comments From this site).
Any help as to how to get organized and best way to find each legal description mentioned above is very much appreciated! This is a great website, I catch myself on here reading every day.
Hi GShafer, welcome! These are OCC documents that are indicating Camino Natural Resources is drilling some new wells on your property! These look to affect section 24,25-06N-07W Grady county Oklahoma. Camino has an active rig on site and looks like they are drilling 4 new wells.
As far as getting organized, there are lots of good posts on here as well as NARO resources for first steps with organizing a portfolio. Looking through OKCounty Records and searching his name or just the last name even can be helpful. I’d start with just basic file server getting all of your documents organized, and creating some basic excel sheets for your ownership tracts and well list etc. Hope this helps!
Welcome to the forum. As the new owner, you will receive OCC case documents for activity that matches your probate documents list of acreage.
Those cases refer to section 24/25-6N-7W. You may find it helpful to put the cases in numeric order and then keep the additional items that will come in date order. Read them and they will tell you what is about to happen. The back of several of them will give exhibits which are helpful. Here is the one from 2879 showing where the wells are planned and what reservoir. This set is telling you that additional wells will be allowed in the sections and gives maps of where they will be if allowed.
As far as getting generally organized, it is helpful if you make files by tracts of acreage by State, County, Township, Range, then section. Several of us have shared templates on how to get organized.
You and your brother will have to contact the operators that were previously paying your father and ask them how to get into pay status. Be ready with death certificate, letters Testamentary, probate docs, your driver’s licenses and whatever else they require. Also check www.missingmoney.com to see if there are funds at the state treasurer’s office in every state where your father lived (plus Delaware).
The National Association of Royalty Owners (NARO) is a national organization committed to educating mineral owners. They have an introductory membership of $75 for the first year. Access to webinars on the basics and more complicated aspects of mineral ownership, conventions, webinars, etc. They also have a new book on how to manage your minerals. Many of the directors are helpful participants on this forum. www.naro-us.org.
The Chapter presidents have given webinars in the last two years on how to find useful information on the state websites. Check out the Oklahoma one! Get familiar with the Oklahoma Corporation Commission website, www.okcountyrecords.com, the Oklahoma Tax Site.
