Leasing question, plus

General Mineral Rights Discussion
1

I am a landowner in western Kansas where a leasing company is putting together a “package” of adjacent land, they say. They are at about 6 quarters of land now, all land adjacent. My suspicion is that they are considering horizontal wells. If only vertical well plans, they only need a piece of land. There are 3 long run (from Colorado/Wyoming to Cushing, Oklahoma) buried crude oil pipelines on one of the leased quarters which maybe they could connect saving all the future hauling costs.

I would be interested in comments from experienced people.

2

Typically, wells are drilled based on geology, not on proximity to a transportation ability.

I suspect they like the way the geology looks in the area.

3

As Mr. Dowd said, the proximity of transport would just be icing on the cake. There still needs to be cake.