Welcome. I don't know what I said last spring (and it was probably wrong), but some companies do give notice to all the owners BEFORE a hearing for a drilling or spacing unit, if it involves a few sections. If you are talking about an application involving a township, forget about it. The only requirement is that the notice be published in the paper. In the old days, involving conventional plays, spacing usually only involved a section, or two, or three and not dozens like in the Bakken, so mailing notice to the owners wasn't so burdensome.
With respect to notice of the order AFTER hearing, that is only sent by mail to those parties that participated in the hearing (and are available on the NDIC subscription website). These spacing and drilling unit hearings are pretty routine and the applications are usually granted in about a month, absent some objection or the like. In your case, I'm sure the units were approved, and the next step would be the application and the granting of a drilling permit, which involves notice to noone except the operator. The surface owner is required to receive notice of operations involving the surface 20 days before they begin. The mineral owners usually won't hear anything until they get a division order after production has already begun, if they don't own the surface. One more thing, just because drilling or spacing units were created doesn't mean there will ever be any activity. There is a lot of spaced land within fields that has never been drilled. It's means, development is planned, but not necessarily that it will occur. Good luck. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Bakken Shale Discussion" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bakken-shale-discussion?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
