# Royalty Clerk > Royalty Clerk checks oil and gas royalty statements for Texas mineral and royalty owners against the production records the Railroad Commission of Texas publishes. It works only for the owner and takes nothing from operators. Most tools and every guide are free. Facts about the site, for anyone quoting it: - Coverage: Texas only. Lease, operator, field and county pages are built from Railroad Commission of Texas production, well and permit records, with prices from the U.S. Energy Information Administration and county appraisal rolls where noted on the page. - Legal statements cite the Texas statute or agency page they rest on (Natural Resources Code chapter 91, Tax Code, Property Code, Estates Code, IRS publications); each page lists its sources at the foot. - What it sells: a statement check that compares each line of an owner's royalty stub with the state record, an estate mineral report for heirs and their lawyers, and Royalty Watch alerts. Prices are on the pricing page. It never charges a share of money recovered. - Information on the site is not legal or tax advice. ## Guides - [How to read a royalty check stub](https://royaltyclerk.com/learn/how-to-read-a-royalty-check-stub): Every box on the stub, what it means, and the five checks that take ten minutes. - [What the codes on a royalty stub mean](https://royaltyclerk.com/learn/royalty-check-stub-codes): BBL, MCF, NRI, ORRI and the rest: a searchable glossary and a stub you can tap. - [How Texas oil royalties are calculated](https://royaltyclerk.com/learn/how-texas-oil-royalties-are-calculated): Volume, price, decimal and tax on one real month, with the arithmetic marked up. - [What your decimal interest means, and how to check it](https://royaltyclerk.com/learn/what-your-decimal-interest-means): Where the long decimal comes from and how to rebuild it from your lease and the unit. - [How to check your royalty stub against a lease page](https://royaltyclerk.com/learn/check-your-royalty-stub-against-a-lease): Find the lease, pick the month, multiply by your decimal, then read the gas codes, operator and buyers. - [Oil, casinghead gas and gas well gas](https://royaltyclerk.com/learn/oil-casinghead-gas-and-gas-well-gas): The Railroad Commission's words for the gas on your stub, and why they matter. - [Texas late royalty payment interest (§91.402 and §91.403)](https://royaltyclerk.com/learn/texas-late-royalty-payment-interest): The 60 and 90 day deadlines, the interest rate, and how to work out what you are owed. - [Why is there a negative amount on my royalty statement?](https://royaltyclerk.com/learn/negative-amount-on-royalty-statement): Reversals, rebills and late lines: a worked example, and when a correction is worth a question. - [Post-production deductions explained](https://royaltyclerk.com/learn/post-production-deductions-explained): Gathering, compression, treating and processing: what they are and when to ask. - [Railroad Commission disposition codes explained](https://royaltyclerk.com/learn/rrc-disposition-codes-explained): Where your gas went, code by code, and why a code change can change your check. - [Texas royalty owner rights](https://royaltyclerk.com/learn/texas-royalty-owner-rights): What sections 91.401 to 91.507 give you: deadlines, interest, the stub, and how to enforce them. - [Royalty income, taxes and your 1099](https://royaltyclerk.com/learn/royalty-income-taxes-1099): Box 2 of the 1099-MISC, the severance tax on your stub, depletion and inherited basis. ## Owner help - [Texas royalty audit](https://royaltyclerk.com/texas-royalty-audit): The ten checks, on your stub, against the state record. - [Texas lease lookup](https://royaltyclerk.com/texas-lease-lookup): Find your lease by name, RRC number or county. - [Royalty checks stopped](https://royaltyclerk.com/royalty-checks-stopped): Seven reasons checks stop, and what to do about each. - [When is my first royalty check due?](https://royaltyclerk.com/first-royalty-check): The estimated date a new well's first check is due, from the state record. - [Inherited mineral rights](https://royaltyclerk.com/inherited-mineral-rights-texas): What to do, in order, after a family member's death. - [Texas division orders](https://royaltyclerk.com/texas-division-orders): What you may sign, what you may refuse, what to check. - [Texas operator changes](https://royaltyclerk.com/texas-operator-changes): Who took over whose leases in the last 24 months. - [Estate mineral report](https://royaltyclerk.com/estate): Every interest under a name, valued at the date of death, split among the heirs, with the steps and letters. - [Royalties in suspense](https://royaltyclerk.com/texas-royalties-in-suspense): Read the operator's letter: the reason, the papers, the balance and the date. - [Unpaid oil royalties](https://royaltyclerk.com/unpaid-oil-royalties-texas): When a check is due, how late it is, and what to write to the payor. - [Mineral property tax protest](https://royaltyclerk.com/texas-mineral-property-tax-protest): Your last day to file, by county, and the evidence that counts. - [Is my oil lease still active?](https://royaltyclerk.com/is-my-oil-lease-still-active): The state's production record set beside the terms of your lease. - [Affidavit of heirship for oil and gas](https://royaltyclerk.com/affidavit-of-heirship-oil-gas-texas): Which papers prove who inherited, and how to record them. - [The royalty depletion deduction](https://royaltyclerk.com/royalty-depletion-deduction): Percentage and cost depletion side by side, and inherited basis. - [Is this buyout offer fair?](https://royaltyclerk.com/mineral-buyout-offer): The offer as months of your income, what the acres mean, and the questions to ask. - [Is this lease offer good?](https://royaltyclerk.com/texas-oil-lease-offer): Bonus and royalty against the county, and a scan of the lease's clauses. - [Texas well watch](https://royaltyclerk.com/texas-well-watch): Permit, completion, first production and when the first check is due. - [I got a letter from an oil company](https://royaltyclerk.com/oil-company-letter): Upload it. We say what it is, what it asks and what to look at. ## Free tools - [Why is my royalty check lower?](https://royaltyclerk.com/tools/why-is-my-royalty-check-lower): Splits the drop from last check to this one into volume, price, deductions and your share. - [When is my next check?](https://royaltyclerk.com/tools/next-royalty-check): The next three checks: when each should come, the month it pays for, its Texas deadline and which way prices point. - [Lease royalty estimator](https://royaltyclerk.com/tools/lease-royalty-estimator): Two years of monthly royalty for a Texas lease and your decimal, with the date each payment was due. - [Royalty calculator](https://royaltyclerk.com/tools/royalty-calculator): Volume, price and decimal to an estimated check, with costs and tax. - [Gas royalty calculator](https://royaltyclerk.com/tools/gas-royalty-calculator): mcf to MMBtu, residue gas and plant products, and where each cost comes off. - [Small royalty balance](https://royaltyclerk.com/tools/small-royalty-balance): The $10 and $100 rules for small balances, and when a yearly payment would come. - [Late payment interest](https://royaltyclerk.com/tools/late-payment-interest): Texas, Oklahoma and North Dakota deadlines and the interest a late payment earns. - [Mineral rights value](https://royaltyclerk.com/tools/mineral-rights-value): Last-year income, a decline curve and a value range for your Texas interest. - [Decimal interest calculator](https://royaltyclerk.com/tools/decimal-interest-calculator): Royalty fraction times net acres over unit acres, for royalty, override and working interests. - [Unit decimal checker](https://royaltyclerk.com/tools/unit-decimal-checker): Your royalty and net acres over the unit acres on the state permit, and the unit size your division order implies. - [Compare lease offers](https://royaltyclerk.com/tools/compare-lease-offers): Two or three lease offers side by side: the bonus difference and the sales at which the higher royalty pays more. - [Mineral interest finder](https://royaltyclerk.com/tools/mineral-interest-finder): Search a name on Texas county mineral rolls for accounts, counties and leases. - [Unclaimed royalties search](https://royaltyclerk.com/tools/unclaimed-royalties-search): The exact names to try on the state's unclaimed property search, and the steps to claim. - [Who buys my oil and gas?](https://royaltyclerk.com/tools/who-buys-my-oil): The gatherers and buyers the Railroad Commission lists for your lease, and since when. - [Operator price check](https://royaltyclerk.com/tools/operator-price-check): Your stub's oil price against what Texas buyers paid and WTI, with the gap in dollars; pick your lease to add your operator's reported price. - [Find the land on my deed](https://royaltyclerk.com/tools/land-abstract-search): Type the section, block, survey or abstract number from your deed and see the land on a survey map, with its wells and permits. - [Old company, new payor](https://royaltyclerk.com/tools/old-company-successor): Follow an old company's name changes and sales to the company that carries on today, with its owner relations desk. - [Several mineral tax bills](https://royaltyclerk.com/tools/multiple-tax-bills): Why each mineral tax bill is a separate account: lease, kind of interest or tract, with free protest deadline reminders. - [Severance tax check](https://royaltyclerk.com/tools/severance-tax-check): Compare the tax on your stub with the Texas rate: 4.6% of oil, 7.5% of gas. - [1099 royalty reconciler](https://royaltyclerk.com/tools/1099-royalty-reconciler): Your twelve checks against Box 2 of the 1099-MISC, with the missing check circled. ## Texas data - [Texas well map](https://royaltyclerk.com/texas-well-map): a free live map of the wells on Texas leases and the drilling permits of the last two years, with survey lines, by county and town - [New Texas drilling permits](https://royaltyclerk.com/texas/new-drilling-permits): every drilling permit the state issued in the last seven days, on a map, by county and operator; each finished week at /texas/new-drilling-permits/, and an Atom feed at /texas/new-drilling-permits/feed.xml - [Oil and gas wells by Texas ZIP code](https://royaltyclerk.com/texas/zip): for any Texas ZIP code, the wells inside it and within 3 miles of its edge by status, the newest drilling permits, the nearest wells and the operators, on a map, at /texas/zip/ and the five digits, such as /texas/zip/79701 (ZIP areas: US Census Bureau ZIP Code Tabulation Areas) - [Texas town fact sheets](https://royaltyclerk.com/texas/town-kits): for each Texas town with 5 or more drilling permits within 10 miles in the last 12 months: a one-page PDF fact sheet (wells by status, permits, the map, sources and date), the map as a JPEG in two sizes, embed code, three facts to quote and how to cite them; the PDF at `/maps/town-kit/.pdf` - [Texas oil and gas plays and basins](https://royaltyclerk.com/texas/plays): the Permian Basin, Eagle Ford, Barnett, Haynesville and Granite Wash: the counties the Railroad Commission lists for each, with their wells, drilling permits, operators and towns, such as /texas/plays/eagle-ford-shale - [Texas oil and gas atlas](https://royaltyclerk.com/texas): every county, with its leases, operators and fields - [Operators A to Z](https://royaltyclerk.com/texas/operators): every Texas operator with leases, counties and production - [Fields A to Z](https://royaltyclerk.com/texas/fields) - [Operator report cards](https://royaltyclerk.com/texas/operators/report-cards): public-record facts per operator: realized prices, lease changes, buyers, permits - [Company records](https://royaltyclerk.com/companies): operators and oil and gas buyers, with name changes and successors - [Texas operator changes](https://royaltyclerk.com/texas-operator-changes): who took over whose leases in the last 24 months - [Findings from the county mineral rolls](https://royaltyclerk.com/texas/findings): every count we published from the Texas county rolls, with tables, method and CSVs - [Where Texas royalty accounts are mailed](https://royaltyclerk.com/texas/findings/where-royalty-accounts-are-mailed): 25.3% of royalty records with a usable mailing state are mailed outside Texas - [Royalty accounts still in an estate's name](https://royaltyclerk.com/texas/findings/accounts-still-in-an-estates-name): 40,602 royalty records, at least, still titled to an estate - Lease pages: `/texas/leases/--`, one per Railroad Commission oil lease or gas well, with monthly production, operator history, buyers and the wells. Example: https://royaltyclerk.com/texas/leases/interstate-8-32-c-08-58035 - County, operator and field pages: `/texas/counties/-county-tx`, `/texas/operators/-`, `/texas/fields/-`. ## For AI assistants and developers - [Texas wells near a place, as data](https://royaltyclerk.com/wells-near-api): a free JSON service, no key: https://royaltyclerk.com/api/public/wells-near?town=Midland (or county=Karnes, zip=79701, lat=31.99&lon=-102.08) answers with the wells within 1, 3 and 10 miles by status, the nearest wells, the drilling permits of the last 12 months, the data date, the place's page and the credit line to show. No street addresses. Examples and limits on the page - [OpenAPI description of the service](https://royaltyclerk.com/api/public/openapi.json) - [MCP server, Streamable HTTP](https://royaltyclerk.com/api/public/mcp): the same answer as the tool wells_near (revision 2026-07-28; clients of 2025-11-25 and earlier open with initialize). Plain counts of the state's records - [Embed a well map](https://royaltyclerk.com/embed-a-map): free, cookie-free frames for another site: a Texas town's, county's, ZIP code's or play's well map, or this week's drilling permits, at `/embed/map//`, with the code, a still picture for newsletters and the credit line ## About - [Who we are and where the numbers come from](https://royaltyclerk.com/about) - [Press and media](https://royaltyclerk.com/media): figures to cite, the credit line, how we count, the media kit and the press contact - [Contact us](https://royaltyclerk.com/contact): questions, press and media requests, account help and questions about the data; a person answers by email - [Pricing](https://royaltyclerk.com/pricing) - [Privacy](https://royaltyclerk.com/privacy): owner data is private: no owner names, addresses or letter outcomes are published ## Optional - [Sitemap index](https://royaltyclerk.com/sitemap.xml) - [Data bulletin (Atom feed)](https://royaltyclerk.com/feed.xml): one entry per load of public records: production, operator changes, permits, county rolls - [Videos](https://royaltyclerk.com/videos)