Mississippi § 85-7-131 - Liens on water, oil or gas wells;

§ 85-7-131. Liens on water, oil or gas wells;

Every water well or oil and gas well, and any fixed machinery, gearing or other fixture that may or may not be used or connected therewith, shall be liable for services or construction and the debt shall be a lien thereon. As to oil and gas wells, the operator thereof shall have a lien upon the interest of each nonoperator owner of an interest in the mineral leasehold estate for the nonoperator’s proportionate part of the labor, material and services rendered by the operator or for the operator’s account on behalf of each nonoperator in the drilling, completion, recompletion, reworking or other operations of the oil and gas well. If the structure is a water well, the lien shall extend only to all pumps, pipes, equipment therein and all water well appurtenances. If the structure is an oil or gas well, the lien shall extend to the nonoperator’s interest in the mineral estate and the fixtures and equipment in the producing unit assigned to the well by the State Oil and Gas Board. The lien shall take effect, as to purchasers or encumbrancers for a valuable consideration without notice thereof, only from the time of commencing suit to enforce the lien, or from the time of filing the contract under which the lien arose, or notice thereof, in the office of the clerk of the chancery court, as hereinafter stated; delivery of material to the job is prima facie evidence of its use therein, and use of water from a water well is prima facie evidence of acceptability of the well. In the case of oil and gas wells, the lien shall take effect, as to purchasers or encumbrancers for a valuable consideration without notice thereof, only from the time of filing notice of the lien as provided by Section 85-7-133.