I need a super lawyer. My problem goes back to 1980 when my grandmother,Essie Davis, signed an oil/gas lease with then Exxon in Upshur County, Texas. This resulted in the production of billions of cubic feet of high cost natural gas which my family has never received a fair share of the profit. When Gladewater Gas Unit #5 in 1993 added a second prolific gas well the Texas Railroad Commission changed the field rules to allow an exception, 3 wells, in an adjacent lease at the request of Exxon. This well, #2, was reclassified as an oil well in 2006 and was shut-in in 2013 although it was producing. The history of operation shows that we have never been paid delay rentals although both wells have been shut-in. The lease is under the control of XTO, Energy, a subsidiary of ExxonMobil, since January of 2014. It informed me that I should secure a lawyer in that it has assisted me and will not any more. That is tantamount to saying it will be another 34 years before we are accorded the same privileges of being paid a fair share of the profits off the commodities, gas, condensates, and oil as other mineral interest owners in the Gladewater field. ExxonMobil has evidently tendered all the shut-in royalties to the other royalty owners disregarding the fact that I have a 1/8 th of the 640 acre lease. I need a super lawyer as soon as possible.
