Your lease would have had a primary term of 3 years minimum, and perhaps with option to extend the primary term by paying additional bonus. So that in 2020 your minerals were under lease to Company A and not available for lease by another company. For whatever reason, Company A did not participate in the wells or perhaps the wells were spud or completed after your lease expired. This highlights the importance of watching for permits and production on and around your minerals by studying permits and the RRC GIS viewer. If you had seen this, then you could have contacted Company A to see what plans it had for participating as a WI or asking Company B if it would like to lease your minerals under the well. You should download all the well permits, plats and completion reports for your files. See if more wells are permitted. Read up on what it means to be an unleased mineral owner in Texas. And you can ask Company B about signing a lease now, although you should not expect any bonus. If you own other minerals, then start watching and compiling records.
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