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Nevada law treats geothermal heat as real property, not a standard mineral. If your family severed the minerals decades ago, you might not own what you think.
Arkansas brine fields are being repriced as lithium assets. We explain the AOGC's 2.5% royalty rate and why your actual check might be surprisingly small.
California lawmakers are handing cities the power to ban oil production. If you own royalties under Los Angeles, your asset has a rigid expiration date.
Refusing an oil and gas lease might feel like leverage. In Mississippi, it just hands the operator the right to take your oil and charge you a penalty.
How Colorado's SB 19-181 gave towns the power to ban drilling, leaving mineral owners with stranded assets and sparking fierce legal battles.
Oklahoma law requires operators to pay 12% interest on late royalties. Here is why you aren't getting it, and the exact steps to claim your money.
Your lease says 'no deductions,' but your royalty check is still shrinking. Here is the accounting trick operators use to bypass your lease protections.
How SWN, Antero, and others used the Market Enhancement Clause to bypass West Virginia law and quietly deduct 30% from your royalty checks.
Oklahoma’s multi-unit horizontal wells have a hidden math problem. Find out how unperforated pipe dilutes your family's royalty checks.
You paid a lawyer to write a cost-free royalty clause. Your check still shows 20% in deductions. Here is why the phrase 'at the well' ruins Texas leases.
How Louisiana operators force you into a unit, sell your gas without a lease, and then fight you in court over the deductions.
Why your 'private' West Texas minerals might actually belong to the State—and what the Relinquishment Act means for your family's land.