My company owns mineral rights in the NE4, the W2 of the SW4 & the N2 of the SE4 Section 30, 23N Twn, 12W Rng . There is a horizontal well that is in SW4 of Section 30 of the same Township & Range with a spacing of 640 and Sec 31 with the same Township & Range with a spacing 640. I was told that the surface location is in section 30 & the bottom hole is in 31 & The Okla Corp Comm ordered that the well is a single unit of 640 acres. In this case, the oil company is telling me that only surface owners in Section 30 are being paid royalties. Is this correct?
This is the some of the info within the cause: 5. Relief Requested: Applicant requests that it or some other party be permitted to drill an additional Mississippi Lime well for the 640-acre unit comprising Section 31, Township 23 North, Range 12 West, Major County, Oklahoma. 6. Relief Granted: The requested relief is granted; the well will be for the common source of supply described below underlying the 640-acre unit described in the caption hereof, as an exception to the following order: Common Source Order of Supply No. Mississippi Lime 203959 7. Reason for Relief: Engineering — the subject unit is underlain with 796,869 barrels of recoverable oil in place in the Mississippi Lime common source of supply. The existing Robert Hodgen #1 Well and the inactive Robert Hodgen #2 Well will ultimately drain 89,266 barrels of oil from Section 31, leaving 707,598 barrels of recoverable oil in place. The drilling of the increased density well is necessary to effectively and efficiently drain a portion of the drilling and spacing unit and common source of supply not being drained by the existing well which is classified as an oil well. 8. Allowable: If completed as an oil well, a normal 80-acre allowable, plus the incentive allowable authorized for horizontal wells. If completed as a gas well, each well shall share a single unit gas allowable determined by the test results of the best gas well.
