Thanks. My great grandfather on father’s side gave the mineral rights to my grandfather and grandmother as a wedding gift in 1929 or so and that’s recorded in the county records. Grandmother died in 69, so then they were owned by my grandfather, father died in 74, then grandfather in 76. Sooooo then the rights came to my mother who passed in 21 when grandfather passed in 76. When she passed the rights came to me and two sisters, and 3 cousins on my Aunts side, who was my fathers sister, when she passed in 98. So Antero or the landman had to go through lots of records to figure out this all out. I’ve looked at the wvdep maps and you can see two parcels with no wells on them in an area full of wells. I surmise that finding out just who had the mineral rights was too tangled up for most oil companies, so they didn’t bother till they realized some good production could be had in those two parcels if they took on the task of hunting down the rights owners.
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