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Mineral Owner Collaboration
Not long after the land-leasing boom began in 2008, new mineral owners across northwest Louisiana and East Texas joined online forums and began sharing information with each other about the process of oil and gas leasing, leasing bonus payments and well production results. GoHaynesvilleShale.com was the first and largest of its kind with over 20,000 members.

GoHaynesvilleShale is a niche social network and forum for mineral owners with mineral rights in the Haynesville Shale of northwest Louisiana and East Texas. Members of the social network share with each other information pertaining to the leasing of mineral acreage, exploration and production of oil and gas, and the royalties associated with them. The site was instrumental in organizing over 20,000 individual mineral owners and stakeholders as oil and gas operators competed to lease their mineral acreage during the leasing boom brought about by the use of hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling. GoHaynesvilleShale, and it’s sister sites GoMarcellusShale, and EagleFordForum form the largest online social networks of mineral owners ever created. Together, they have been called “the most voyeuristic look” into how oil and natural gas exploration has impacted the average mineral owner in America.