How do you know if you should be getting royalties

West Virginia Mineral Rights Monongalia County, WV
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My brother and I were found by a landman… Sam… nice guy. He said we owned/inherited property on our mom’s side. It’s not much, but we got $1,500/5-year lease bonus and 15% royalties. That was over a year ago. Then he called again, said he found more, got a $500/5-year flat lease with 15% royalties, and that is post production. It’s not much property. Everyone has signed off on the first property. They started work last November 2017. We have yet to see a division order or anything from the company, Northeast Energy. Being new to this, I have no clue. I need to know how to locate the wells on or around our property. The little plots are by a gas company and on the border by the basin of the Appalachian Trail.

Also, I heard that a law was going around to stop them from taking post production costs. Any info or site I can go to to learn about this? Wanted to say thanks to the folks who put this site up. The info is great and I used it and past questions to get the land leases.

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Try this link here. https://dep.wv.gov/oil-and-gas/databaseinfo/Pages/default.aspx

It’ll show you if the wells are producing.

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How do I know which wells are on my property or going through it?

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WVDEP Oil&Gas Well Information not sure if this opens to the map or not but you can zoom into your area to see if it is producing.

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There are a lot of missing wells on that DEP site but thanks for listing it.

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True it only has older data from before we signed the leases. I went to the production report and it shows Northeast Natural Energy producing a lot, but it also shows the permits issued. I have looked at tax maps and so on but can’t seem to locate the exact spot of our property.