# Unknown activity on our Reeves County land
**URL:** https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/unknown-activity-on-our-reeves-county-land/4192
**Category:** Reeves County, TX
**Created:** [October 13, 2016, 8:37pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/unknown-activity-on-our-reeves-county-land/4192 "2016-10-13T20:37:02Z")
**Posts on this page:** 15
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### Author:  [@John\_O\_Neil](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/John_O_Neil)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2016, 8:37pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/unknown-activity-on-our-reeves-county-land/4192/1 "2016-10-13T20:37:02Z")
We were approached by a pipeline company about putting a pipeline across part of our Reeves County land. The deal fell through, but we got an aerial photo showing where the line would go. The photo clearly shows prior activity on this land…a road and several symmetrical something or others. We have not been contacted by anyone proposing surface activity, so I’m wondering whether this is something I should follow up on. Any thoughts would be great. If I can figure out how to post the aerial photo I will do so.
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### Author:  [@Linton\_Tomlin](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Linton_Tomlin)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2016, 8:39pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/unknown-activity-on-our-reeves-county-land/4192/2 "2016-10-13T20:39:55Z")
John, at the bottom of where you reply to this message it says “upload files.” You can upload the aerial photo there. Linton
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### Author:  [@John\_O\_Neil](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/John_O_Neil)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2016, 8:41pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/unknown-activity-on-our-reeves-county-land/4192/3 "2016-10-13T20:41:20Z")
Let me know if this shows clearly
713-Reeves.png (428 KB)
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### Author:  [@Linton\_Tomlin](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Linton_Tomlin)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2016, 8:50pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/unknown-activity-on-our-reeves-county-land/4192/4 "2016-10-13T20:50:01Z")
Looks good to me. Linton
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### Author:  [@Charles\_Emery\_Tooke\_III](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Charles_Emery_Tooke_III)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2016, 12:02am UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/unknown-activity-on-our-reeves-county-land/4192/5 "2016-10-14T00:02:35Z")
John -
If you can give me a legal description of the subject lands, I may be able to provide you with more detailed information about your pipeline issue.
A couple of questions, however:
Does your family own the surface of the lands under review?
And, if your family owns any of the Mineral Interests in the subject lands, are they presently under lease and if so, to what company?
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### Author:  [@John\_O\_Neil](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/John_O_Neil)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2016, 12:10am UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/unknown-activity-on-our-reeves-county-land/4192/6 "2016-10-14T00:10:35Z")
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### Author:  [@Charles\_Emery\_Tooke\_III](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Charles_Emery_Tooke_III)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2016, 12:18am UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/unknown-activity-on-our-reeves-county-land/4192/7 "2016-10-14T00:18:03Z")
Once again, but this time with **FEELING** , John!
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### Author:  [@Clint\_Liles](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Clint_Liles)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2016, 1:14am UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/unknown-activity-on-our-reeves-county-land/4192/8 "2016-10-14T01:14:38Z")
Hey Charles,
After checking Johns’ profile page this is possibly his legals:
Reeves County - 40 acres, Section 6, Block 50T7, T&P RR, A-5651
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### Author:  [@John\_O\_Neil](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/John_O_Neil)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2016, 2:32am UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/unknown-activity-on-our-reeves-county-land/4192/9 "2016-10-14T02:32:32Z")
LOL… Sorry Charles… not sure what happened. We own land… surface rights and mineral interests. OXY did not renew a 3-year lease which expired in August.
John
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### Author:  [@Charles\_Emery\_Tooke\_III](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Charles_Emery_Tooke_III)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2016, 4:22pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/unknown-activity-on-our-reeves-county-land/4192/10 "2016-10-14T16:22:21Z")
I am taking an 88-year-old friend of mine to lunch and to the grocery store but will look it up when I get home.
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### Author:  [@John\_O\_Neil](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/John_O_Neil)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2016, 7:34pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/unknown-activity-on-our-reeves-county-land/4192/11 "2016-10-31T19:34:37Z")
UPDATE… turns out OXY, who was leasing our land, prepared the land for drilling, but decided not to drill. However, they never paid us surface damages. They plan to rectify this.
Kinda odd, don’t you think?
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### Author:  [@r\_w\_kennedy](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/r_w_kennedy)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2016, 9:28pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/unknown-activity-on-our-reeves-county-land/4192/12 "2016-10-31T21:28:29Z")
If this is the first you heard of it I would think it odd, someone should have contacted you unless your lease gave free use of the surface.
As for not paying until “after” the last second, I consider it highly likely they would have never got around to paying damages on their own. Considering they didn’t inform you they were there, pushing dirt, in the first place, did they?
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### Author:  [@Charles\_Emery\_Tooke\_III](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Charles_Emery_Tooke_III)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2016, 9:29pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/unknown-activity-on-our-reeves-county-land/4192/13 "2016-10-31T21:29:01Z")
Typically a company would negotiate a settlement for damages before they start operations, so yeah, that was kinda odd.
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### Author:  [@John\_O\_Neil](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/John_O_Neil)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2016, 9:36pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/unknown-activity-on-our-reeves-county-land/4192/14 "2016-10-31T21:36:41Z")
We got a notice of intent from OXY re: surface damage payments, but then I was notified they had decided otherwise. What happened was they did all the surface prep but decided not to drill. The lack of surface damage payment was, apparently, an oversight.
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### Author:  [@system](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2018, 10:59pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/unknown-activity-on-our-reeves-county-land/4192/15 "2018-08-14T22:59:19Z")