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Gee nobody wants to help you ... only use you to launch one-liners. Good ole FR.

You very likely do not own the mineral rights to your property is there is any chance of oil anywhere near it. Maybe you have half the rights. That's common. I don't know what the Texan is talking about. Nobody has the mineral rights to their property around here unless their ancestors got the Spanish land grant. Usually you find that some corportation or University holds the mineral rights to your land.

Besides that if you are in a residential neighborhood they will never let you drill. Ever. There are no unknown deposits of oil anywhere in california. They are all known and mapped. Your deposit has been determined to be not worth exploiting and the developer has kept this little secret to himself.

There could still be gold in them thar hills however. Lawsuit gold. You can sue the developer. The city (How dare they permit land for residential use with oil seeping to the surface?) You can sue the large corporation that sold the land to the developer that cut the lots. Sue em all.

The other very likely possibility is that you are living on a land fill. BIG lawsuit possibilities. I'd get that stuff analysed as soon as possible!!!

As I mentioned, I am a pretty bad law student. I haven't taken Oil & Gas as yet, and my Property class focused mainly on the Rule of Perpetuities, which is utterly pointless.

I was just hoping to provide some information so far as I knew, clearly prefaced with the caveat that I am for the most part unknowledgeable on the subject. I suggested that the Grim Freeper contact a competent attorney, which is still good advice. Plus you may not have posted your own commentary "but for" my own!

The Mercy Plan

Sue Sue Sue (Ya'll must be from California)

When I existed there (Never did really Live there) instead of see ya later or Bye or Goodbye, I always said "Sue ya later"

What an absolutely crappy way to live day to day, worried about getting sued or worrying about who ya can sue today.

After I left California I tried scraping the bottoms of my boots, after awhile I just gave up and threw them away, that was 23 years ago and the stench.... (I could go on for hours)

Gee nobody wants to help you ... only use you to launch one-liners. Good ole FR.

I know...I feel kinda bad about that...but after the other things going on, a light-hearted thread was a relief.

I think he's gotten some good advice regardless by the handful of non-smart-alecks present.

There are no unknown deposits of oil anywhere in california. They are all known and mapped.

I wouldn't bet on it. While it is highly unlikely that an unkown deposit has just now started to seep to the surface, there are more things in Heaven and California than man can imagine.

With the San Andreas fault just beyond Los Gatos, there is no telling what could come to the surface.

Quote: "Gee nobody wants to help you ... only use you to launch one-liners." Good one-liner mercy!! /sarcasm

Quote: "There are no unknown deposits of oil anywhere in california. They are all known and mapped." Sorry, that's total BS. If that were so, the reservoirs would have been tapped long ago. As an employee of a worldwide oilfield service company that performs seismic surveys, you obviously don't have a clue about that topic. However, I don't know about the mineral rights in The People's Republic of China, oops, I mean California, and make no claim to.

Besides that if you are in a residential neighborhood they will never let you drill. Ever.

They are placing drilling rigs in neighborhoods here in North Texas to drill for natural gas in the Barnett Shale.