Texas operator changes

Look the lease up by the name on your royalty stub. Every lease page lists each operator that reported it, with the first and last month of each. A change in the last 24 months is also flagged in the results below when you pick your county.

Look up your lease

It puts a new company in charge of paying you. Under Natural Resources Code section 91.407 the new payor must give you written notice, within the time it has to pay, with the property name and number, the sales month, an address and phone number for questions, and a description of the property. Your lease and your decimal do not change because of the switch alone, but the months on either side of it are where a payment can be missed.

What to do after an operator change

The company that pays royalty is the payor, and it is usually the operator of the lease. When a lease is sold or the operator changes, the payor changes with it. The state record shows the month the new operator first reported the lease, which is the best guide to when your payor changed.

In the Railroad Commission's production data for Sep 2024 to Aug 2026, the largest transfer was Epic Permian Operating, LLC to Scout Energy Management LLC: 2,683 leases, first reported in Feb 2025.

From the Railroad Commission's production data, which records the operator that reported each lease each month. A change is counted when the operator reporting a lease is different from the one before it. The record shows who reports a lease, not who owns the minerals or the working interest, so a sale that keeps the same operator does not appear.

Railroad Commission production data query

Often, yes. A payor may require a signed division order as a condition of payment if it contains only the provisions listed in section 91.402(c). If it contains extra provisions and you refuse to sign, the payor may not withhold payment solely because of that.

What a division order may say