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If you own mineral rights or oil and gas royalties, understanding what determines their value can feel like trying to hit a moving target. While your acreage may contain valuable resources, the market forces driving its worth go far beyond what’s underground. From commodity prices to drilling activity, operator health, and even international politics, dozens […]

If you’re a landowner or are considering selling or leasing your mineral rights, one of the most important concepts to understand is the distinction between mineral rights and surface rights. In the United States, land ownership can be legally divided into different types of rights, meaning it’s entirely possible to own the land above ground, […]

An important and potentially overlooked aspect of mineral rights ownership, or royalty income, is how these assets are taxed. For many mineral owners, deciding whether to keep collecting royalty income or sell the interest outright involves weighing not just financial and risk factors but also the tax implications. Depending on your tax bracket, selling may […]

Affordable Options for Individual Owners and Small Family Offices Managing mineral and royalty interests shouldn’t require a special diploma or a corporate-sized tech stack. If you’re an individual owner or part of a small family office, you likely want tools that simplify tracking your interests, without the steep costs and complexity of enterprise systems. Luckily […]

Understanding your royalty payments from oil and gas production is vital in order to ensure accurate, timely, and complete issuance of all production revenue to which you are entitled as a royalty owner. The most critical piece of information available to royalty owners for review and validation of their payments is the revenue statement. What […]

If you’re a property owner and you’ve been contacted by an oil and gas operator about leasing your mineral rights, it’s essential to understand the process, where you may have negotiating power, and the terms that could most significantly impact your financial and legal standing down the road. Although being leased is almost always a […]

Mineral and royalty interests in the United States come in various forms, each representing some form of ownership of, or profit-sharing right in, the production of oil, gas or other subsurface hydrocarbons from a particular parcel of land.  It is critical for operators and landowners alike to understand these interests and how they are utilized. […]

What are mineral interests, how are they monetized, and what are the legal frameworks that govern them? If you receive royalty payments from oil & gas production on property you own, it’s critical to know the answers to these questions – though the answers can be hard to come by! This blog post will address […]

Global oil and petroleum liquid production averaged 103 million barrels per day in 2024, reflecting an increase of roughly 900,000 barrels from the previous year. This relatively modest growth can primarily be attributed to a slowdown in China’s economic expansion. The United States continues to lead the world in both oil and natural gas production. […]