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Wednesday, October 16, 2019

Mineral Rights In The Bakken -- October 16, 2019

This is how "amazing" the Bakken is for some "small" mom-and-pop mineral owners in the Bakken, who no doubt inherited minerals from their homesteading parents, some of whom bought land from neighboring farms over the years.

I have a reader who tells me, even ten years into the Bakken, upwards of seven siblings are each receiving royalty checks trending toward $50,000 / month.

Let's work this backwards. Assuming the family "kept" all their minerals over the years.

A twenty percent royalty on $1.75 million = $350,000.

At $35/bbl, $1.75 million = 50,000 bbls/month.

At 2,000 bbls/month/well, that would be 25 wells.

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  1. Pretty good, back of the napkin math. I personally hold 12 wells now. All shared by cousins of Grandparents foresight years ago.
    Also know of a family member who sits on some solely owned property, roughly 22 wells and are swimming in the "Andrew Jacksons"

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    1. Wow, congrats. I have another reader who has a similar situation: a family of siblings who are sole mineral owners (shared with the oil company, of course). I don't think anyone can comprehend the amount of money that a well can generate.

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