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Mineral Rights 101
Learn what mineral rights include, how they differ from surface and royalty interests, which records matter, and what to verify before making a decision.
Read a Royalty Statement
Use this line-by-line guide to read an oil and gas royalty statement, identify common deductions, check the decimal, and know when to ask the payor questions.
Royalty Decimal
Learn the royalty-decimal formula, work through an acreage example, and understand the unit, tract participation, royalty rate, and title facts that can change the result.
Inherited Mineral Rights
Follow a practical first-30-days checklist for inherited mineral rights: gather records, contact payors, verify title, protect tax records, and avoid rushed decisions.
Oil & Gas Lease Terms
Understand oil and gas lease terms including bonus, royalty, primary term, pooling, deductions, depth, Pugh, shut-in, warranty, and surface-use provisions.
Mineral Rights Value
Understand lease agreements, bonus payments, royalty percentages, and key terms every mineral owner should know.
Selling vs. Holding
Compare selling and holding mineral rights using cash-flow, development, concentration, tax, estate, timing, and offer-quality questions instead of a one-size-fits-all answer.
Rigs, Frac Spreads, Permits, DUCs
Learn what rig counts, frac spreads, permits, and drilled-but-uncompleted wells measure—and what these signals can and cannot tell a mineral owner.
Find a Well by API Number
Learn how API well numbers work, normalize common formats, search state regulator records, and match a well to royalty statements and production data.
Post-Production Deductions
Understand gathering, compression, processing, treatment, transportation, and other post-production deductions—and how to compare them with your lease and statement.
Division Orders
A quick overview of the latest developments affecting mineral owners and investors.
Taxes and Depletion
Learn which mineral income records to organize, how Schedule E and depletion may apply, and which sale, bonus, basis, and state-tax questions to take to a CPA.
Buyer Due Diligence
Use this mineral-rights buyer checklist to review title, lease terms, units, production, operators, taxes, deductions, development inventory, valuation, and closing documents.
Permian Basin Owner Guide
A practical Permian Basin guide for mineral owners covering Texas and New Mexico records, well searches, production lag, drilling signals, leases, payments, and valuation context.
Weekly Mineral Owner Market Brief
Publish once weekly after primary source releases; correct transparently if source data changes
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Mineral Rights 101
Learn what mineral rights include, how they differ from surface and royalty interests, which records matter, and what to verify before making a decision.
Read a Royalty Statement
Use this line-by-line guide to read an oil and gas royalty statement, identify common deductions, check the decimal, and know when to ask the payor questions.
Royalty Decimal
Learn the royalty-decimal formula, work through an acreage example, and understand the unit, tract participation, royalty rate, and title facts that can change the result.
Inherited Mineral Rights
Follow a practical first-30-days checklist for inherited mineral rights: gather records, contact payors, verify title, protect tax records, and avoid rushed decisions.
Selling vs. Holding
Compare selling and holding mineral rights using cash-flow, development, concentration, tax, estate, timing, and offer-quality questions instead of a one-size-fits-all answer.
Find a Well by API Number
Learn how API well numbers work, normalize common formats, search state regulator records, and match a well to royalty statements and production data.
Post-Production Deductions
Understand gathering, compression, processing, treatment, transportation, and other post-production deductions—and how to compare them with your lease and statement.
Division Orders
A quick overview of the latest developments affecting mineral owners and investors.
Taxes and Depletion
Learn which mineral income records to organize, how Schedule E and depletion may apply, and which sale, bonus, basis, and state-tax questions to take to a CPA.
Buyer Due Diligence
Use this mineral-rights buyer checklist to review title, lease terms, units, production, operators, taxes, deductions, development inventory, valuation, and closing documents.
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Oil & Gas Lease Terms
Understand oil and gas lease terms including bonus, royalty, primary term, pooling, deductions, depth, Pugh, shut-in, warranty, and surface-use provisions.
Permian Basin Owner Guide
A practical Permian Basin guide for mineral owners covering Texas and New Mexico records, well searches, production lag, drilling signals, leases, payments, and valuation context.
Mineral Rights Value
Understand lease agreements, bonus payments, royalty percentages, and key terms every mineral owner should know.
Rigs, Frac Spreads, Permits, DUCs
Learn what rig counts, frac spreads, permits, and drilled-but-uncompleted wells measure—and what these signals can and cannot tell a mineral owner.
Weekly Mineral Owner Market Brief
Publish once weekly after primary source releases; correct transparently if source data changes
