Lourdes at La Crescent - Monday Night Football

Tony has a JV game on Monday night at 6:30 at La Crescent High School. Please come out if you can make it.

The weather HAS to be better than last year. Hopefully you'll be able to see #12 "light-up the Lancers".

6 Months!

William is 6 months today! Can't believe how fast the time is flying by. Thought I would post some pictures.

Oil Mystery

Dick noticed on Friday that one of our sections had a horizontal drilling leg showing up in it. I looked for some additional info and found that a well had been started back in Feb, and it went non-confidential 6 months later in Aug. That must have been when the information became public about exactly where they were drilling.

So I looked some more and found additional information about the well. There was a report that it was mentioned in that said #17980 – Tracker Resource, LLC, Dukart 3-1H, NENW 3-145N-97W, Dunn Co. 292 bopd, 801 bwpd - Bakken" (I googled bopd and it is an abbreviation for barrels of oil per day).

So it appears that this well is producing. I started to try to find out how to claim royalties or if royalties might just start showing up. As part of that I got a copy of the old registered letter (July 3, 2007) from Pat that told us a permit to drill had been granted. When I looked through the letter I was surprised to see that it was about our other section, not this one with the well on it.

I found all sorts of things that said if there is any confusion about who might be entitled to the royalties, the oil companies might not send out any royalties until the confusion is settled, i.e. we might need to do something here.

So for now, there are a number of unanswered questions or points of confusion. I'm going to keep digging, but if anyone has any additional pieces to the puzzle, please let me know. Here's a list of what I'm trying to find out:

1. What was the name of the company that bought the lease from us? (I believe it might have been Continental..., but I'm not sure.
2. If I call the company about the lease, I need the lease number. I haven't ever seen the lease so I have no idea on this one.
3. It would be nice to know if the lease was on both sections that we have rights to, or only one of them. The question here is whether the original lease covered the section with the well.
4. The company that drilled the well is called Tracker Resources. It doesn't seem to be the company that bought the lease from us.
5. To my knowledge, none of us got any kind of registered letter, etc. about the drilling at 145-97-10. As I mentioned earlier, the letter Pat sent me only mentioned 145-96-6. If anybody saw/heard about another registered letter (perhaps that they didn't pick up) let me know.
6. Getting a letter might be difficult. The one from 2007 only had correct addresses for Bill, Dick and Pat. Mary sent in new addresses for all of us, but we don't know if that got fixed.

So, please let me know if you know anything that I might not know, and I will continue to pursue...

Thanks.

Maple Leaf Road Races

Is anyone interested in participating in the Maple Leaf Road Races this year? Information is available here. This is the best "fun" run around as you run/walk the Oktoberfest parade route before the parade starts. There a lots of people already lined up to watch the parade and you're sure to be offered a beer and a brat or two along the way. You get a nice long-sleeve T-shirt and an Oktoberfest button with the registration.

All skill levels can participate - there's a 5K walk, a 5 mile run, and a half-marathon. Becky and I signed up to do the 5 mile run. I won't be setting any land speed records, but I'm sure it will be fun. The day of the race, Saturday, Sept. 26th, is Becky's birthday, so I'm SURE she'll have some fun.

P.S. Some friends of ours always have Bloody Mary's available near the finish line.