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20 free tools for Texas royalty owners
Start with your lease
Find it once. Every tool then opens on it.
Your Texas lease
The name on your statement, or the district and number. We remember it in this browser, so you only search once.
Got a letter or an offer?
Start with the paper in your hand
A letter
I got a letter from an oil company
Upload it. We say what it is, what it asks and what to look at.
Open itAn offer to buy
Is this buyout offer fair?
The offer as months of your income, what the acres mean, and the questions to ask.
Open itAn offer to lease
Is this lease offer good?
Bonus and royalty against the county, and a scan of the lease's clauses.
Open itA well nearby
Texas well watch
Permit, completion, first production and when the first check is due.
Open itA company name
Who is this company?
Operators and buyers: the state's record, permits, leases, production.
Open it
01 · 7 tools
Is my check right?
Start here when a check looks low, late or odd.
- Why is my royalty check lower?Why did my check go down?Splits the drop from last check to this one into volume, price, deductions and your share.Open the tool
- When is my next check?When is my next check, and will it be bigger?The next three checks: when each should come, the month it pays for, its Texas deadline and which way prices point.Open the tool
- Lease royalty estimatorWhat should each check have been?Two years of monthly royalty for a Texas lease and your decimal, with the date each payment was due.Open the tool
- Royalty calculatorWhat should my check be?Volume, price and decimal to an estimated check, with costs and tax.Open the tool
- Gas royalty calculatorIs my gas royalty right?mcf to MMBtu, residue gas and plant products, and where each cost comes off.Open the tool
- Small royalty balanceWhen will my small balance be paid?The $10 and $100 rules for small balances, and when a yearly payment would come.Open the tool
- Late payment interestWas I paid late, and what is owed?Texas, Oklahoma and North Dakota deadlines and the interest a late payment earns.Open the tool
02 · 4 tools
What is my interest worth?
Your decimal, your income and a value range from public state data.
- Mineral rights valueWhat are my mineral rights worth?Last-year income, a decline curve and a value range for your Texas interest.Open the tool
- Decimal interest calculatorIs my decimal right?Royalty fraction times net acres over unit acres, for royalty, override and working interests.Open the tool
- Unit decimal checkerDoes my decimal match the unit?Your royalty and net acres over the unit acres on the state permit, and the unit size your division order implies.Open the tool
- Compare lease offersBigger bonus or bigger royalty?Two or three lease offers side by side: the bonus difference and the sales at which the higher royalty pays more.Open the tool
Have a statement?
Skip the typing
Upload a royalty statement and we read the lines, find the lease and compare each month with the state record.
03 · 6 tools
Who owns it, who buys it, who pays you?
Find interests under a name, money the state is holding, and the companies that buy your oil and gas.
- Mineral interest finderDo I own mineral rights?Search a name on Texas county mineral rolls for accounts, counties and leases.Open the tool
- Unclaimed royalties searchIs the state holding my royalties?The exact names to try on the state's unclaimed property search, and the steps to claim.Open the tool
- Who buys my oil and gas?Who buys my oil?The gatherers and buyers the Railroad Commission lists for your lease, and since when.Open the tool
- Operator price checkIs my oil price fair?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.Open the tool
- Find the land on my deedWhere is the land on my deed?Type the section, block, survey or abstract number from your deed and see the land on a survey map, with its wells and permits.Open the tool
- Old company, new payorWho pays from this old company now?Follow an old company's name changes and sales to the company that carries on today, with its owner relations desk.Open the tool
04 · 3 tools
Taxes
What comes off before you are paid, and what the 1099 says after.
- Several mineral tax billsWhy did I get several tax bills?Why each mineral tax bill is a separate account: lease, kind of interest or tract, with free protest deadline reminders.Open the tool
- Severance tax checkWas too much tax taken out?Compare the tax on your stub with the Texas rate: 4.6% of oil, 7.5% of gas.Open the tool
- 1099 royalty reconcilerDoes my 1099 match my checks?Your twelve checks against Box 2 of the 1099-MISC, with the missing check circled.Open the tool
Owner tools
Protect what you own
Money that is late or held
Ask before you wait.
- Unpaid oil royaltiesWhen a check is due, how late it is, and what to write to the payor.
- Royalties in suspenseRead the operator's letter: the reason, the papers, the balance and the date.
- Royalty checks stoppedSeven reasons checks stop, and what to do about each.
- Unclaimed royaltiesHow royalties reach the Comptroller, the names to search and how to claim them.
Your lease and your land
Check before a date passes.
- Is my oil lease still active?The state's production record set beside the terms of your lease.
- Mineral property tax protestYour last day to file, by county, and the evidence that counts.
- Mineral interest finderSearch a name on the county appraisal rolls for accounts and leases.
- Who buys my oil and gas?The gatherers and buyers the state lists for your lease.
After a death in the family
Papers first, then money.
- Inherited mineral rightsWhat to do, in order, after a family member's death.
- Estate mineral reportEvery interest under a name, valued at the date of death, split among the heirs, with the steps and letters.
- Affidavit of heirship for oil and gasWhich papers prove who inherited, and how to record them.
- The royalty depletion deductionPercentage and cost depletion side by side, and inherited basis.
Where the numbers come from
Public records, not our guesses
The tools need no account. Your numbers stay in the address bar.
Volumes
What each Texas lease sold, month by month, from the Railroad Commission's production data.
Railroad Commission PDQPrices
WTI Cushing and Henry Hub prices from the U.S. Energy Information Administration: its monthly averages, and for a month it has not averaged yet, its daily prices or its own forecast.
EIA spot pricesTax
Texas production tax: 4.6% of the value of oil and 7.5% of the value of natural gas.
Texas ComptrollerForms
What Box 2 of the 1099-MISC reports and which forms carry other oil and gas income.
IRS instructions
Looking for a lease or a county? See Texas oil and gas production by county, or read how to read a royalty check stub. Newest tool: Operator price check.
Free check
Rather have us do the checking?
Upload a statement. We compare every month with the Railroad Commission record and give you the questions to ask.