Oil Gas and Minerals Legal Questions and Answers
Is a Working Interest in a Gas Lease Considered Real Estate for Purposes of a Deed?
I own a working interest in oil leases in Kansas operated by a small drilling and operating company headquartered in Denver, Colorado. For purposes of a beneficiary deed or TOD deed, is this legally considered real estate?
06/18/2010 | Category: Oil Gas and Minerals | State: Colorado | #22424Do I Have any Rights to the oil Being Pumped in my Community?
I grew up in a community where oil wells was pumping for years near our house and property. My question is who is entitled to share in revenues generated by an oil well in a community is there a distant where I might be able to claim possible revenues?
06/12/2010 | Category: Oil Gas and Minerals | State: Virginia | #22374How do I rescind a disclaimer of a oil and gas lease?
My husband recently passed away. Every thing we owned was jointly with the exception of an oil & gas lease held in my husbands name only. This was our second marriage & my husband had children from his last marriage. I felt big hearted & signed a disclaimer to the oil & gas lease. Days later I knew I had made a hugh error. I went to the attorney & she wrote to the children t...
10/01/2009 | Category: Oil Gas and Minerals | State: Arizona | #18896How can I rescind a disclaimer found in an oil and gas lease?
Can I rescind a disclaimer I made on an oil lease?? It was a huge mistake I made. Thanks
09/23/2009 | Category: Oil Gas and Minerals | State: Arizona | #18757Does Gas Company Need to Give My Franchise a Right of First Refusal?
I have been a lessee of a gas station for 13 years. The lease has been transferred 2 times. I bought the station as a 'Company A' and a few years later 'Company B' bought 'Company A'. For the deal to go through, 'Company A' had to divest assets in Oregon and other states as well. 'Company C' bought those assets and rebranded my site ''Company C'', and the lease was transferred ...
06/24/2009 | Category: Oil Gas and Minerals | State: Oregon | #17176Transferring Mineral Rights by Tenant in Common
My two brothers and myself and own a fraction of the oil, gas, mineral rights to an old family farm, the rest being held by cousins and an uncle as tenants-in-common. Our uncle wants to transfer his entire interest equally to my two brothers and myself. What document would record this transfer? Would it be filed with the recorder of deeds? Would there be any taxes or additio...
05/07/2009 | Category: Oil Gas and Minerals | State: Pennsylvania | #16601How does my friend claim the mineral rights that her mother owned when she passed away?
I have a client whose mother owned mineral rights (natural gas) in Los Angeles County at the time of her death. Is there a particular form of deed for this? The mother didn't own the fee. The daughter (my client) probated the will in New Jersey, where her mother resided. So-do I need a specific form of 1) Executor's deed, and/or 2) Deed conveying only mineral rights? I ha...
02/10/2009 | Category: Oil Gas and Minerals | State: California | #15221Do the overriding royalty holders drop off of the list once the lease has changed hands?
I live in Tennessee and I purchased several oil leases in Lee County, Kentucky. These leases have not been in production for over 15 years. Do the overriding royalty holders drop off of the list once the lease has changed hands? Or, Is the overriding royalty expired because production was stopped for so long and the lease has changed hands? (Were talking overriding royalty, not...
01/18/2009 | Category: Oil Gas and Minerals | State: Tennessee | #15023Can the gas company legally condemn my property to lay pipe on it?
Can a Gas company legally condemn my property if I refuse to let them dig and lay a pipe line on it?
05/22/2007 | Category: Oil Gas and Minerals | State: Texas | #5557Who is responsible for moving items of private property to repair gas lines?
Both my wife and I are disabled. We are raising five grandchildren. We barely make it from month to month. There's a gas line that comes across our property within 20 or 30 feet of our back door. I have a utility building, a car shelter, trees, and flowers. I was told by a company official that they plan to dig up the line and do repair work. I explained to them that I wasn't a...
05/12/2007 | Category: Oil Gas and Minerals | State: North Carolina | #4526