Many mineral rights owners face the question: Why sell mineral rights? Should you? Or not? This question has come up a lot in the past couple of years with the announce of another shale play. Here are a couple of important shale plays:
The Eagle Ford shale is in south Texas, in a broad area from Gonzales county to Webb county. A couple of years ago, Petrohawk brought it to the newsfront with announcement that drilling had paid off there and they were enthused about it. Since then, much oil and gas leasing activity has occurred and more drilling, as well. It appears that production is not as strong as in the Haynesville shale, but, it's still good. Here is more info: Eagle Ford shale.
And that means that mineral rights owners now face the first question listed above. Because any time an oil play or gas play is announced, mineral rights sales can bring big money.
There are many reasons one might want to sell all or part. But the main reason it's prudent to consider it is that cash money is a sure thing. And oil and gas exploration is anything but that. Over my 32 years in the oil and gas business, countless times, I have seen people reject an offer to sell that would have done them good, even made some wealthy, and then something went wrong and the offer went away. And they couldn't get much at all after that. Sometimes, zero. And that's pretty sad! I have seen people turn down million dollar paydays and a week later, they couldn't get a penny for the same property. Oil and gas is a fickle business and things change rapidly!
The Haynesville shale play (see Haynesville shale map) is one such play. Wow, a lot of good stories and sad stories, too! Some people got fortunes and some people lost them!
So, if you own mineral rights (which include royalty rights), it's wise to consider it. Follow the links on this page for more info.
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