If your freehold mineral interests are not leased and you are approached to lease them by a land agent, current information on well and land activity in your area may assist you in negotiating a fair and reasonable lease agreement. 

If your freehold mineral interests are leased, you should monitor well activity on and adjacent to your mineral interests in order to insure that your oil company-lessee is complying with the terms of your lease agreement. There are many hundreds of unsatisfied offset obligations on freehold lands in Alberta. Presumably, the involved freehold owners are either unaware of the fact that a well is producing from a spacing unit offsetting their mineral interests, or don’t understand their rights in the situation (“Offset Wells”). 

Members who wish to acquire technical information pertaining to their mineral interests are requested to provide FHOA with the location of their mineral interests together with a check in the amount of one hundred and twenty-five ($125.00) dollars. The Association will provide the member with a map showing all of the wells in the nine sections immediately surrounding the section containing the member’s freehold minerals, a well summary report for all wells drilled or drilling within this area, a well production report summarizing the production from all wells producing within this area, and a land map showing Crown and freehold lands within this area. The land map will include bonus prices paid for any Crown leases in the area together with the dates that the particular Crown land was leased. 

If you are a member of the association and would like technical information, please contact us with the appropriate information and payment. This service is not available to non-members of the Association.