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A real lease, a sample owner, the state’s own records and a red pen. Every video has captions on and a full transcript below it.
Transcript of “Is your royalty check right?”

Is your royalty check right?

Once a month, a royalty check arrives in the mail. You cash it. You trust it. But is it right? So we do what a careful bookkeeper would do. We read every line, with a red pen. The decimal. The barrels of oil. The price you were paid. The fees taken out. This is a real lease in Midland County, Texas, with a sample owner.

Your lease in the state's own records

Then we look up your lease in the state's own records. Every Texas lease reports its oil sales to the state each month. Multiply that by your share, and you know what you should have been paid. For February, the state says this owner's share was 12.93 barrels. The stub says 11.89.

Four findings

That's eight percent short, four months in a row. About $285. Next, the price. For three months, the price paid fell far behind the West Texas benchmark. That's $766. Then the big one. January 2025 was never paid at all. The state shows 28,175 barrels sold, right when the operator changed. That's about $2,277. And one worth asking about. The gas now goes to a pipeline, but every statement still takes a processing fee. That's $552, worth a question.

Adding it up

Add it up, and this owner is likely owed $3,328. Plus $579 worth asking about. A sample owner, on a real lease.

What you get, and how to start

You get every finding in plain English, with the numbers from both sides. A letter you can send, with the exact question to ask. A PDF report to keep. And when everything is right, we tell you that too. Try your first check free. Send us your stub at royaltyclerk.com.

The owner in this video is a sample owner on a real lease. The statements are made up for this demo; the state records are real.

2 minutes

Is your royalty check right?

Watch a royalty check get read line by line and compared with Texas Railroad Commission records: the decimal, the barrels of oil, the price you were paid and the fees taken out. The sample owner is likely owed $3,328, with $579 more worth asking about.

  1. Is your royalty check right?
  2. Your lease in the state's own records
  3. Four findings
  4. Adding it up
  5. What you get, and how to start
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Production, drilling permits, who operates the leases and the price behind your check, for one producing county, from the Railroad Commission’s records.

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