Harding County, SD oil & gas discussion group. Share your experience regarding lease bonus, royalty rates, drilling activity, and oil & gas news.
Where are lands recently leased from school districts?
We have some mineral rights in South Dakota. Is anything going on up there? A lady in the county clerk’s office told us about 5 years ago that we needed to file an affidavit of ownership and needed to do that every 20 years or we could lose them. So we filed one. Someone told me we also had to file one in North Dakota every 10 years if you had minerals there.
Any recommendations for an attorney in Harding or McPherson County? Or South Dakota?
Thanks.
A rancher acquaintance recommended Belle Fourche attorney Mr. Max Main, who wrote an oil and gas lease for him. Mr. Main was interviewed on 9-22-2012 by Andrea J. Cook of the Rapid City Journal for the article “Energy leases can be tricky, stockgrowers told” (Link: http://rapidcityjournal.com/news/energy-leases-can-be-tricky-stockgrowers-told/article_61bc2e6e-4164-566c-a5b1-c2c2e80069f5.html).
we have heard that banning together in groups of mineral rights owners is helpful in negotiating better values. Does anyone else have ideas about this?
Mike Tikkanen
On the question about recording mineral rights I have been told to read statue SDCL 43-30A about abandoned mineral interests ;