My rights as a property owner

[birdman62]

What is the name of your state?Texas
The property I own has a oil well and a tank battery with three tanks. The oil company hasn't used the pump jack in more then five years. Thay are only pumping water from the tank battery. I have the surface rights and no mineral rights.The oil company has an easment.Should I be receving revenue from the oil company for my surface rights?

 

[Shay-Pari'e]

No, it is their easement.

 

[HomeGuru]

What is the name of your state?Texas
The property I own has a oil well and a tank battery with three tanks. The oil company hasn't used the pump jack in more then five years. Thay are only pumping water from the tank battery. I have the surface rights and no mineral rights.The oil company has an easment.Should I be receving revenue from the oil company for my surface rights?

**A: revenue from what? Water is not a mineral although it could contain minerals.

 

[seniorjudge]

Should I be receving revenue from the oil company for my surface rights?

What are they doing to the surface that leads you to believe you should be compensated?

 

[HomeGuru]

Good question.

 

[birdman62]

Surface damage

What are they doing to the surface that leads you to believe you should be compensated?

The sight that thay have had a pump jack on will not grow any thing but rocks.The soil is dead.Thay dug a sluge pit at that same sight,and since then a weed cant even grow.

 

[HomeGuru]

The sight that thay have had a pump jack on will not grow any thing but rocks.The soil is dead.Thay dug a sluge pit at that same sight,and since then a weed cant even grow.

**A: so sue their oily asses into restoring the property in the same condition as before they devasted it.

 

[seniorjudge]

**A: so sue their oily asses into restoring the property in the same condition as before they devasted it.

Agreed. They are not allowed to damage the surface (within limits).