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Dawson County could eventually get some oil and gas revenue from mineral interests that local officials didn’t know the county even owned. County Judge Foy O’Brien said he initially received a phone call from a company – which he did not disclose – wanting to lease the county’s oil and gas interests on property south of Lamesa. “We’ve got 1.06 mineral interest in some land at Sparenberg,” O’Brien told members of the county commissioners court during their regular meeting Tuesday afternoon. “I had no idea we had that.” He said the county does not own any surface rights at the location – just mineral ...

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Lamesa Press-Reporter

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Lamesa, TX 79331
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