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Fracking: Landowners profit from oil and gas boom

WKYC.com -- The garden on Richard Faber's farm produces all sorts of fruits and vegetables, from tomatoes to watermelons.

Turns out Faber's land is rich in natural gas and oil, at least that was the bet investors were willing to take when they approached him about leasing his mineral rights to them.

Faber ended up leasing land to Shale Investments for a price: $701,580. But, he says, he did extensive research search before signing a lease and attended several meetings held by companies who were interested in his land.

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Submitted Oct 31, 2012 By: drpepperTX

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kyjlh Champion Author Kentucky Posts:1,746 Points:678,945 Joined:Feb 2005	Message Posted: Nov 1, 2012 5:09:57 AM Ignore kyjlh Report Abuse good retirement and he done research first
jethro5000 Champion Author Kentucky Posts:2,013 Points:417,960 Joined:Jun 2005	Message Posted: Nov 1, 2012 3:59:37 AM Ignore jethro5000 Report Abuse ??
MAC48 Champion Author Dallas Posts:1,580 Points:788,400 Joined:Dec 2006	Message Posted: Oct 31, 2012 9:50:52 PM Ignore MAC48 Report Abuse Aviator Rob -- Once a successful, i.e. finds sufficient quantities of oil or gas, well is drilled and starts producing, the likely hood that the drilling/production company will stop producing, cap the well and move to new sites is quite slim since the company will definitely want to produce enough oil or gas or both from that well to pay for the cost of drilling the well in the first place. It is irrelevant that other fields open up. The only reason that producing wells are caped is that the well quits producing and then requires redrilling or fracking to get the well producing again which means a new decision point on whether the additional cost to get the "old" well producing again can be cost justified. PS - The wife and her two brothers have 50% rights on 600 acres of land down near Comanche Texas that they would be glad for some company to explore.
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OGW Champion Author London Posts:5,436 Points:1,556,195 Joined:Sep 2005	Message Posted: Oct 31, 2012 9:02:46 PM Ignore OGW Report Abuse Better driprite land so at least the landowner gets some good return as much of their land will be useless after the drilling companies leave.
Aviator_Rob Champion Author New York Posts:3,985 Points:439,840 Joined:Mar 2012	Message Posted: Oct 31, 2012 8:58:11 PM Ignore Aviator_Rob Report Abuse If the government opens up drilling on public land, won't Big Oil just drill there? No more high priced mineral rights and leases for the private landowners? There goes the gravy train.
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Aviator_Rob Champion Author New York Posts:3,985 Points:439,840 Joined:Mar 2012	Message Posted: Oct 31, 2012 8:54:33 PM Ignore Aviator_Rob Report Abuse Can cows survive on fracking fluid? They'll be drinking plenty of it.
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drpepperTX Champion Author Texas Posts:9,159 Points:778,875 Joined:Apr 2011	Message Posted: Oct 31, 2012 8:51:36 PM Ignore drpepperTX Report Abuse "I'm curious to find out how much the land is worth after fracking. My guess is: not munch." =================== Your guess is wrong, as a Realtor I can tell you that oil and gas production enhance land values. We have an old saying here in Texas. "An oil well in the south forty is improved pasture!"
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