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Abandoned minerals and royalty owners issue highlighted

May 18, 2017

In 1983, Oklahoma Farm Bureau succeeded in amending OKFB’s 1978 law to allow any mineral or surface owner to bring action to clear up ownership of minerals which a court determined were abandoned. Other bills supported by OKFB passed as well, including one to require all owners of mineral be paid their pro-rata share of the gas wells, one that spells out a lien on oil field equipment cannot be enforced on the owners of the land, and another to allow the Corporation Commission to plug more abandoned wells.

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