Ask a Landman

I am in Texas and building a home. Does the builder retain the mineral rights, or do I?

even just mineral rights, lets say per acre, ballpark figure. or if you can refer me to a website but googlee hasent done me any good with this topic.

I inherited some mineral rights but don’t know what happened to the papers on them.

If you gift your mineral rights to a child would they be exempt from the existing judgement ?

What companys come out and test the land for natural gases or oil? How long is the process to find out the declaration of mineral rights? And who do I contact for this information?

I own 100% of the mineral rights to approximatley 73 acres of land that a petroleum company has made me an offer to lease for 5 years, along with an offer of royalty payments if oil or gas is produced anywhere on prospect which includes my land. I’m excited, but how do I know [...]

In Texas, if I buy mineral rights from a homeowner who has an existing mortgage then he defaults on his mortgage and loses his property in foreclosure, do I also lose my mineral rights? Can I redeem my mineral rights? What are my options in this kind of situation?

someone has mineral rights specifically stated as "from surface down to, but not to exceed, 15300 ft". Can I purchase rights below this depth? I have reason to believe drilling will be very close if not deeper according to the landman, plus, all area wells (5) are currently drilled at the 14500 to 15100 [...]

I own a fraction of a land’s mineral rights and just received an offer to lease it out for 3 years. They are valueing it at 450.00 per acre and an 1/8 of profit for royalty.
I would like to find out if this is a fair offer.

Must you disclose the mineral rights in the initial listing? Or can you wait until the interested party asks about it ?

My grandmother sold some land in North TX but deed states she keeps ownership of the mineral rights. She has since passed away and I cannot locate the record. How do I locate the record and stake claim? Thank you!

If you own the land thatoil is taken out of, you get to sell or lease your mineral rights to those who would drill and pump, and profit from that, since you own it, you get to renegotiate your lease tems once in a while. Which is what Sarah Palin did for Alaskans, it’s not [...]

If a person buys the surface rights to an old mining property, but not the mineral rights, can they recover loose ore that was spread around the propertyty for fill and such? Also, what ‘rights’ do they have to use or not use the old shafts and tunnels for other purposes besides mining?

i already have some training, this job does title search for mineral rights on land for oil & gas companies to lease.

I am trying to find out where to go to find out about mineral rights because someone wants to drill 4 gas.

does the property owner have the right to free gas from a gas well on their property if someone else owns the mineral rights to the well/?….

I own the land but I am told that someone else owns the mineral rights for my property. I need to find out how to find out who these people or their heirs are. I have the Abstract but most of the people in it would be very old or dead by this [...]

I know after 10 years in Louisiana, the mineral rights are turned over to the current land owner. Is there any way around this? I have know problem letting the owner of the property keep the mineral rights forever. If I decided to subdivide the land and sell them in lots, how [...]

I own mineral rights and/or royalty interest in Louisiana? I want to sell now while the price is high, as opposed to waiting for royalties on future production. Is this a good idea? How do I obtain an offer?

I was approached by an oil company through a court order from Oklahoma stating that I own mineral rights and they want to drill and it was a forced pooling . They offered me royalty payments. I had no idea that I am a mineral owner in Ok. How did this happen? I uderstand from [...]

i have a gas well on my property,someone else owns the mineral rights,do they have to give me free gas/?

Our father died last summer. We were getting papers together for his lawyer and discovered that our grandfather left mineral rights on some Louisiana acreage to our father. How do we find out if these mineral rights are still valid? Is there a registration somewhere for Louisiana mineral rights? Is there a time limit on [...]

My sister & I sold a 150 acres of land in Texas a number of years back, but we did retain the mineral rights. Diversified Land Management Company wants permission to look for oil or gas and said that if they found any then we would go fom there. Do we give them permission to [...]

Texas Within 11 days of closing on our home the buyers want to back out because we can not guarantee there will never be drilling of oil or gas on our land. We do not own the mineral rights. We have incurred ,500.00 in moving expenses because they insisted we give them [...]