# Royalties - Adjacent Well
**URL:** https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/royalties-adjacent-well/55390
**Category:** Mountrail County, ND
**Created:** [January 28, 2020, 5:19pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/royalties-adjacent-well/55390 "2020-01-28T17:19:43Z")
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### Author:  [@mnsuper99](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/mnsuper99)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2020, 5:19pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/royalties-adjacent-well/55390/1 "2020-01-28T17:19:43Z")
I am very new to learning about how these things work, so I apologize in advance. Our family has an interest in well RS-State D- 155-92-0203H-4 which just went online last August/September. There is a well RS-Becker-156-92- 3526H-1, essentially across the road, which started producing in 2008. We do not receive royalties from the Becker well and I don’t understand why.
Can you help me understand how to research this type of information? I really appreciate it!
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### Author:  [@Steve\_Durrett](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Steve_Durrett)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2020, 5:31pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/royalties-adjacent-well/55390/2 "2020-01-28T17:31:44Z")
The State designates the spacing unit for a well, taking into consideration the physical characteristics of the reservoir so as to protect correlative rights and allow orderly development. Just as you don’t share in your neighbor’s well, he doesn’t share in yours. In any event, shale wells typically only recover oil from an area a few hundred feet either side of the wellbore.
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### Author:  [@mnsuper99](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/mnsuper99)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2020, 5:38pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/royalties-adjacent-well/55390/3 "2020-01-28T17:38:38Z")
Thank you Steve. I appreciate it. How can I learn what the spacing is for our wells? Does a 640-acre spacing mean that all landowners within a 640-acre circle from the wellhead are entitled to royalties? Thanks again.
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### Author:  [@Steve\_Durrett](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Steve_Durrett)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2020, 6:32pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/royalties-adjacent-well/55390/4 "2020-01-28T18:32:07Z")
Spacing units will generally follow Section Lines. In your case these are 1280-acre units comprised of two sections. Your well is under Sections 2 and 3 of Township 155-92. The other well is under Sections 26 and 35 of Township 156-92. The well names are usually a good way to decipher the locations, although not all operators use the same methodology.
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### Author:  [@mnsuper99](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/mnsuper99)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2020, 7:44pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/royalties-adjacent-well/55390/5 "2020-01-28T19:44:44Z")
Makes sense, thank you so much Steve.
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### Author:  [@DRontal](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/DRontal)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2020, 9:23pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/royalties-adjacent-well/55390/6 "2020-01-28T21:23:41Z")
Hi there. The reason you are not paid on the Becker well is because it is likely pooled into its own 1280-acre spacing unit that does not include your minerals. You likely own in 155-92-Sections 2 or 3, and the Becker well pools interests in 156-92-Sections 26 and 35.
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### Author:  [@system](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2020, 5:19pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/royalties-adjacent-well/55390/7 "2020-04-27T17:19:44Z")
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