Pipeline Easement Compensation Question

[BuckSmasher]

Wow this thread took off with all kinds of good info.

Update: They have countered up double their initial offer. We are still thinking that is a bit to low. I'll keep updating.

[BuckSmasher]

I am going to refer the lawyer talk to all the above.

Get the best seeding mix out there and base it on your intended use of the place. I am a native plant kind of guy and I would like to see land go back to what it looked like a couple hundred years ago but that is just me.

If you need help on the plants part, I can try and help you out on a selection.

I like the way you think, and I may take you up on that. Natural history buff here as well.

[Txarrowhunter]

Ok...I see. I was way off base. I thought you had sacrificed your soul & announced publicly the abovementioned figure to be your total payment. I was so lost.....lol. Thanks be!

Haha. Yeah for that figure I’d definitely not had a pipeline go through my property. Which even though I got almost $51k I still would’ve rather had them go around me. I made it very clear to them the money wasn’t worth the pipeline damages to my property and on several occasions asked if they could just reroute.

.....speaking of 14k an acre....what size tract? Like 14k an acre when you buy 5 acres or 50 acres or 200 acres?

5acres runs 20k-25k 10acres 14k-17k 20+acres 9500-14k

[RiverRat1]

Re-routes cost money and time. But as mentioned sometimes a reroute is not hard..But sometimes it's very hard. I surveyed pipeline easements..We loved reroutes

[R2TX]

ttt

Enterprise's M2E4 project (30" crude line, 50' easement) is planned to run through our property in Frio & Atascosa county. We received the typical low-ball initial offer from EPD last week for $24/ft or $400/rod. Needless to say, we don’t intend to accept the offer…

I’ve spoken to several landmen and ranch brokers familiar with the area that said $70-80/ft would be a reasonable place to end up. Our O&G attorney thinks those numbers are a little high. Does anyone have any recent comps for the area that they can share?

Thanks,
DS

How did it all work out? I'm in the same area dealing with the same thing now.

[Laner7]

We have had 3 come through us so far & another one is predicted to come through. Get an attorney it is a must. They will try to screw you over and in all honesty you still get screwed over even when you get a deal better than your neighbors. If you can get all your neighbors to come together than y’all can get a better amount. Unfortunately not all neighbors are interested in doing that, but I know of some landowners who all got together in Crockett county & got a better deal than surrounding counties. You also need to see if a valve site will be placed on your land or not. If you do happen to have it on your place than you need to make sure that they fence it off properly as some things can come back on you as the landowner & you also get more compensation for the valve being on your place. Also we got more money out of them by having them NOT seed over the easements.