According to a recent press release, the company stated that It has plans to develop and test up to 4 wells in the Yegua sand.

You can learn more about Texas Allied Petroleum, Inc. www.texasalliedpetroleum.com

According to The Bristol Herald Courier, “The millions in escrow come mostly from the production of coalbed methane gas, and belong to thousands of people whose mineral rights the state has leased to private energy corporations against their will or without their knowledge. Virginia law provides two ways for mineral owners to recover royalties from escrow: sue to prove ownership, or split the money with someone else who claims it.”

Currently there are three bills in question, one of which was recently sponsored by Delegate Terry Kilgore, R-Gate City. Kilgore’s bill has been introduced with the intent of prying the royalties out of escrow but has not come without criticism. Some of those familiar with the bill are concerned that corporations could haul landowners into binding arbitration against their will and leverage their legal muscle to prevail even when precedent tilts against them.

To learn more about this issue, please visit the following website:

Bristol Herald Courier – Series of Articles

According to the Charleston Gazzette, “the Senate Energy, Industry and Mining Committee signed off on the measure (SB369) during a meeting at the back of the Senate chamber. The meeting was announced at the end of the Senate floor session, but was not on any of the public lists of meetings. The Senate is set to vote on the measure Tuesday.”

This bill could have a negative impact on gas royalty owners, as it could give operators the opportunity to drill on the edge of a neighboring mineral owners’ land and drain gas from the mineral owners’ tracts without paying for it.

To learn read more about this issue, please visit one of the following links included below:

• Rush on gas-well drilling bill unfair, owners group says
• West Virginia Surface Owners’ Rights Organization
• West Virginia Legislature - Energy, Industry and Mining Committee

Current XTO Oil and Gas Properties

Below is a brief list of XTO properties throughout the continental United States. For more information about XTO Energy, please visit their website: http://www.xtoenergy.com

Eastern Region – XTO Energy is a prominent producer in East Texas and Northern Louisiana with the Freestone trend leading the way.

• Freestone Trend
• Haynesville / Sabine Uplift / Cotton Valley

Barnett Shale – XTO entered the Barnett Shale play in early 2004 with a small acquisition and has rapidly become a dominate player. This region accounts for more than 20% of XTO’s total production. During 2008 the company added a new core operating base in the prolific Marcellus Shale region

Appalachia Region – XTO moved into the Appalachian Region in mid-2008, with an acquisition from Linn Energy. The expansive leasehold is anchored in the right location with prolific shale potential.

San Juan Region – XTO Energy took its initial position in this expansive region with a 1997 acquisition in the San Juan Basin. XTO Energy controls an expansive development inventory which focuses on conventional production in the Wasatch, Mesaverde, Dakota and Paradox Formations, and on CBM production in the Fruitland, Raton, Vermejo and Ferron coals.

• Unita Basin
• Piceance Basin
• Raton Basin
• San Juan Basin

Mid-Continent Region – The Mid-Continent Region covers a diverse range of fields from the Rocky Mountains, to the plains of Kansas and Oklahoma, to the Ozarks of Arkansas. The Company is committed to long-term development plans for the Fayetteville, Woodford and Bakken shales.

• Bakken Shale
• Powder River Basin
• Green River Basin
• Northwest Oklahoma
• Woodford Shale
• Fayettville Shale

Permian Region – XTO Energy acquired some of the Company’s first assets in the venerable oil province of West Texas.

Gulf Coast – With our recent acquisition of properties from Dominion and Hunt Petroleum, the Gulf Coast Region is an area that XTO will exploit and develop both onshore and offshore.

If you are an oil and gas mineral/royalty owner, you should consider joining the National Association of Royalty Owners (NARO).

As stated on the NARO website, “The mission of NARO is to encourage and promote exploration and production of minerals in the United States while preserving, protecting, advancing and representing the interests and rights of mineral and royalty owners through education, advocacy and assistance to our members, to NARO chapter organizations, to government bodies and to the public.”

NARO was originally created in 1980 (approximately 30 years ago) to fight against the windfall profits tax. Fast forward to the present and NARO continues to fight for the rights of the American oil and gas royalty owner.

NARO represents the concerns of an estimated 8.5 million American private owners of oil and gas mineral and royalty interests.  We as oil and gas royalty owners live in all 50 states, even though our producing minerals may be in Arkansas, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Utah, Wyoming or any of the 33 producing states.

Currently NARO is representing the best interests of the American royalty owner by preparing written testimony to present to the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee regarding the repeal of the percentage depletion allowance.

To get the latest updates on issues that effect you as an oil and gas royalty owner, please join the National Association of Royalty Owners by visiting their website http://www.naro-us.org.

If you own an oil and gas royalty, mineral interest, lease or overriding royalty interest in the Illinois Basin and are interested in selling, we can help.

Nationwide Royalties is committed to helping the individual royalty owner sell their producing and non-producing oil and gas royalties, leases, overriding royalty interests and other mineral interests quickly and discreetly.

We have the capital and experience required to properly evaluate a wide range of properties in the Illinois Basin and make lump sum cash buyout offers on your oil and gas royalties regardless of size.  We buy small and large Illinois royalty interests ranging from a few hundred dollars to millions.

If you own an oil and gas royalty, mineral interest, lease or overriding royalty interest in the D-J Basin and are interested in selling, we can help.

Nationwide Royalties is committed to helping the individual royalty owner sell their producing and non-producing oil and gas royalties, leases, overriding royalty interests and other mineral interests quickly and discreetly.

We have the capital and experience required to properly evaluate a wide range of properties in the D-J Basin and make lump sum cash buyout offers on your oil and gas royalties regardless of size.  We buy small and large Colorado royalty interests ranging from a few hundred dollars to millions.

If you own an oil and gas royalty, mineral interest, lease or overriding royalty interest in the Paradox Basin and are interested in selling, we can help.

Nationwide Royalties is committed to helping the individual royalty owner sell their producing and non-producing oil and gas royalties, leases, overriding royalty interests and other mineral interests quickly and discreetly.

We have the capital and experience required to properly evaluate a wide range of properties in the Paradox Basin and make lump sum cash buyout offers on your oil and gas royalties regardless of size.  We buy small and large Colorado royalty interests ranging from a few hundred dollars to millions.

If you own an oil and gas royalty, mineral interest, lease or overriding royalty interest in the Greater Green River Basin and are interested in selling, we can help.

Nationwide Royalties is committed to helping the individual royalty owner sell their producing and non-producing oil and gas royalties, leases, overriding royalty interests and other mineral interests quickly and discreetly.

We have the capital and experience required to properly evaluate a wide range of properties in the Greater Green River Basin and make lump sum cash buyout offers on your oil and gas royalties regardless of size.  We buy small and large Colorado royalty interests ranging from a few hundred dollars to millions.

If you own an oil and gas royalty, mineral interest, lease or overriding royalty interest in the Piceance Basin and are interested in selling, we can help.

Nationwide Royalties is committed to helping the individual royalty owner sell their producing and non-producing oil and gas royalties, leases, overriding royalty interests and other mineral interests quickly and discreetly.

We have the capital and experience required to properly evaluate a wide range of properties in the Piceance Basin and make lump sum cash buyout offers on your oil and gas royalties regardless of size.  We buy small and large Colorado royalty interests ranging from a few hundred dollars to millions.