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Tuscaloosa Marine Shale

At Tuscaloosa-Marine-Shale.com, our focus is info for mineral rights and royalty rights owners.

The Tuscaloosa Marine shale is an oil and gas "play" in Louisiana and Mississippi that is enjoying renewed interest. Over the past, say, 20 years, some drilling has occurred but it has not proved to be anything to write home about. Now, companies are hoping that better technology can get the oil and gas out. We know that there is oil and gas there, it's just a matter of producing it in paying quantities. Which is a big IF. One of the problems is depth; it's from 10,000 to 15,000 feet subsurface.

The Tuscaloosa Marine shale is almost the same geological age as the Eagle Ford shale of south Texas; it's just slightly younger. It stretches all across central Louisiana over into the Florida parishes, on into Mississippi. Downdip to the south, gas production has been found in Tuscaloosa sands.

Many companies are interested in considering lands anywhere in the USA but the focus on this site is for information for those who wish to sign oil and gas leases or selling mineral rights and royalty rights in central Louisiana and Mississippi. At this time, those who own mineral rights under small tracts will need to be patient and wait awhile, as the larger tracts are where the interest lies in a new play.

Tuscaloosa Marine Shale Map

Here is a map that shows where the Tuscaloosa Marine shale might be found.

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The map shows parishes where there is interest in obtaining oil and gas leases or mineral rights and royalty rights in Louisiana.

Texas and Louisiana are fortunate, in that there are two other shale plays, the Eagle Ford shale and also the Haynesville shale. Those two shale plays are proven to produce oil and/or gas in commercial quantities. The Tuscaloosa Marine shale is new; thus, only time will tell if it will bring blessings of oil royalties and gas royalties for mineral rights owners and royalty owners.

Oil Gas & Mineral Lease

As for those who are not experienced in oil and gas leasing matters, here is the way it works. Lessees pay a lease bonus to the Lessor, on a per acre basis, for a lease on your mineral rights. This gives them the right to drill for oil and gas. The lease provides that if they strike oil or gas, they will pay you a royalty, a percentage of the production revenue. The lease bonus is a set amount. The royalty payment fluctuates with the production each month, as well as the price received for oil and gas produced. As with any oil and gas property, it is a depleting asset; the production, on a month-to-month basis, is constantly declining. It's just the nature of the beast... the well is tapped into a finite resource, a pool of oil or gas.

Sell Mineral Rights

Some would like to cash out and enjoy a big cash payday. One can sell their mineral rights or a portion of them for a cash settlement. There are many reasons people elect to sell mineral rights... to buy something they want or need, such as a house, a car, a boat, a lifetime vacation, provide for a child's education, or perhaps, they just want a to enjoy a windfall to ease the struggle of day-to-day living. In Louisiana, mineral owners have a tremendous advantage, in that the mineral deed creates a servitude and this servitude lasts for ten years. After the ten years, if production has not been found, the mineral rights go back to the property owner. That's a good deal for Louisiana landowners. Selling mineral rights is the only option for many people to generate a large sum of money. If one finds a company to buy mineral rights, the seller can retain the land, so, it can be a wise choice for some.

If you want to lease your land or seek a mineral rights buyer to sell royalty rights, and/or producing oil royalties or gas royalties, you can visit here:

Oil and Gas Consultant in the Tuscaloosa Marine shale, Haynesville shale, Eagle Ford shale

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Good luck in the Tuscaloosa Marine Shale!