My sister and I have a 1/4 share of 2000 acre's in Dunn county in North Dakota, I live in Texas and she lives in Minnesota, how do we go about finding a company to lease them? Any and all advise will be helpful!
Unless you are extremely hard to find, I think your acres are probably in a less desirable area. If you are in a good area, file a statement of claim and the landmen will be all over you. If you are in the less desirable area, find out who has been operating in your area, which you can do by inputting your legal description in a well search on the NDIC Oil and Gas Division website, it will show the name of the operator. Check the Gis server map on that website also to look for any wells drilled in your area. There is a small chance you may already have a well or wells, I tell people two or three times a month that they have a well they didn't know they had. The operator may not make a great effort to contact you. If you feel comfortable posting the legal description I will help you look, or send me a friend request.
If you don't own the surface, and have not leased or claimed the minerals in the last 20 years, make a statement of claim your first priority, because you wouldn't want to lose your mineral acres to the surface owner because they were not used according to the ND dormant minerals act, leased, claimed, borrowed money against and of course production are use of minerals, Good luck.
Thanks for the information , who can I file a statement of claim with ?
Hi Scott,The statement of claim form will need to be filed with Dunn County Recorder.
Lisa Guenther is the recorder
205 Owens Street
Manning, ND 58642
701-573-4443
Here is the website of a Statement of Claim form, on the NDIC website. Be sure to leave ample space at the top of the page, so they can put their Recording Stamp on it, otherwise, they'll have to use a 2nd page and the recording fee will be more. I recommend you call Lisa to find out the recording fee, before you mail it in. I'm guessing it's around $10-15.
https://www.dmr.nd.gov/oilgas/statementclaim.pdf
As per your land description you posted 144/91 and 145/91 here, it's incomplete. You will need the precise land description on that Statement of Claim, which sections, and what area of the section. Such as Northeast 1/4 or South 1/2 or whatnot. Your deed should have that information.
Good Luck,
Susan
thank you very much for the information Susan
Scott,
It appears there is already an existing lease from 2011 with Jett Jones Company, for those acres. It is a 3 year term, with 2 year extention, so the lease would expire in 2014, unless they pick up the option of extention.
It lists full land descriptions to all parcels, so a Statement of Claim, would not be necessary to record.
Susan