I am part of a pooling unit and am getting royalties from three wells that are not on the parcel that my mineral rights are in. If there is a well drilled on the land where my mineral rights are (I am not the surface owner), and it is in the same pooling unit as above, is it possible that my percentage will be larger than it is now?
Bruce, for extended long lateral or XXL long lateral wells in a drill spacing in ND, every acre is treated the same, whether you have the wellhead or wellbore on/passing through your acres or not. It does not even matter if the well could not possibly be draining your minerals, all will get the royalty they agreed to in their lease or what the state says they should get if force pooled. All are treated equally regardless of where the well head is situated.
This is the second question I have recently seen where someone asked if you get greater royalty by having the wellhead on your minerals in ND. I think people are getting confused by the rules of Oklahoma where the section that has the wellhead MAY be attributed with a greater percentage of the production than the section where the bottom hole location of the wellbore is. This does not apply in ND.
In ND [and other places], they can do offsite drilling where the owner of minerals directly under the well head receives no royalty at all, because their minerals are not produced by the wellbore.
Thank you! That makes sense.
r w kennedy said:
Bruce, for extended long lateral or XXL long lateral wells in a drill spacing in ND, every acre is treated the same, whether you have the wellhead or wellbore on/passing through your acres or not. It does not even matter if the well could not possibly be draining your minerals, all will get the royalty they agreed to in their lease or what the state says they should get if force pooled. All are treated equally regardless of where the well head is situated.
This is the second question I have recently seen where someone asked if you get greater royalty by having the wellhead on your minerals in ND. I think people are getting confused by the rules of Oklahoma where the section that has the wellhead MAY be attributed with a greater percentage of the production than the section where the bottom hole location of the wellbore is. This does not apply in ND.
In ND [and other places], they can do offsite drilling where the owner of minerals directly under the well head receives no royalty at all, because their minerals are not produced by the wellbore.