Emily, I urge you to refer to my reply right above your recent message. My sister and I have had some luck with Hilcorp. It took about four years to figure this out. Write your complaint (s) to Hilcorp Executives. They assigned a Farmington Landman to help us. He was truly helpful. You need to know what you own, and know your rights when you write that letter. Also, an outcome of the 2014 Ideal Class Action Suit, and the 2018 Shallow Well Suit (adjudicated in Oklahoma—NM was included in that one) gives owners some rights. The Oklahoma suit was settled on September 30, 2018 and six months after that, the stipulated “Agreed New Mexico Payment Methodology” went into effect and lasts for 120 months or 10 years. That means ten years of no deductions with the exception of NM taxes. (Of course, the IRS bill will increase, too.) San Juan owners who had any business with Burlington (even after Conoco bought Burlington) recevied this because Burlington bilked owners of significant amounts of rightful income. It takes some personal time to set all of this right but it will be worth it financially. Maybe you have already done this if so, I apologize for the repetition. *Footnote: the Burlington suit (Ideal, et. al.) was to recover damages from Burlington’s unethical reporting of revenue to owners from coal bed methane wells; the Oklahoma suit (Shallow Well suit) included NM, Oklahoma, and Texas against Burlington’s same bad practices with natural gas wells (vertical). The NM court agreed to split the original suit into two different suits. And because there were so many owners involved, and Okla. and Tex. owners were given priority, NM received the “Agreed New Mexico Payment Methodology.” My apologies for the redundancy if you are aware of this. If you are not, then you may have some outstanding income due you. Ann
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