Anyone familiar with this case?

[dean nelson]

http://m.bismarcktribune.com/mobile/article_ba89ea3c-d0f9-5e2e-9b16-2d07e35534c4.html

So does this mean the state owned the adjacent mineral rights or is the state just more or less stealing the oil instead? If the neighbor is in fact a privately held chunk of mineral rights how does the state have the right to claim it for themselves? The article seems to leave a lot of what may be the key details out so just wondering if any of you guys know anything more about this? Whole thing seems to smell a bit fishy!

 

[Trip McNeely]

yeah I think i'd be pretty pissed at both the oil company but more so the NDIC if it were oil that came off my mineral rights. would that even be legal for the NDIC to do if it did came from privately owned leases?

the proceeds will just go towards a retention bonus for a buddy staff member anyways.