# Need to understand Pooling
**URL:** https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/need-to-understand-pooling/61987
**Category:** Miscellaneous
**Created:** [June 2, 2021, 9:35pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/need-to-understand-pooling/61987 "2021-06-02T21:35:28Z")
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### Author:  [@Bertie\_Lou\_Stringfellow](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Bertie_Lou_Stringfellow)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2021, 9:35pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/need-to-understand-pooling/61987/1 "2021-06-02T21:35:29Z")
I need a refresher on what is Pooling Is there Forced Pooling in WV?
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### Author:  [@Nick\_C](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Nick_C)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2021, 4:16am UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/need-to-understand-pooling/61987/2 "2021-06-03T04:16:25Z")
Good evening,
Pooling means to pull your net mineral acreage into a drilling unit. When a E&P company decides to propose a horizontal drilling unit, they record DPU’s - Declarations of pooling and unit agreements. This shows you who the company pools into the unit.
The State of West Virginia does have forced pooling called co-tenancy.
**West Virginia** Gov. Jim Justice signed into law HB 4268, the “Co-Tenancy Modernization and Majority Protection Act.” July 1, 2018 and essentially acts as a **forced pooling**.
WV Oil & Natural Gas Association Link.
> **[06\_WVONGA\_Pooling.pdf](https://energywv.org/assets/files/Energy-Summit-Presentations/2015/06_WVONGA_Pooling.pdf)**
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I hope this helps answer your question.
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### Author:  [@RedHead](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/RedHead)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2021, 5:08pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/need-to-understand-pooling/61987/3 "2021-06-07T17:08:47Z")
In more laymen terms, effectively pooling means what it sounds like; a “pool” of oil is “defined” and you are contributing your oil to that pool. For example, you may own 40 mineral acres that are included in a well that draws from a pool of 640 acres. In this case, you are contributing 40/640 = 6.25% of the oil that gets extracted by the well. Most people sign a lease that entitles them to a royalty, so rather than than have to fund their share of the well cost and get 6.25% of the revenue, they instead fund $0 of the well cost and get say 20% of their 6.25% share of their oil (1.25%)
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### Author:  [@system](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2021, 9:36pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/need-to-understand-pooling/61987/4 "2021-08-31T21:36:21Z")
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