Evidently, investors and consumer markets (power plants, etc.) were too optimistic earlier this year, expecting the U.S. to have a...

Check out the newest additions to our Bookstore: Oklahoma Corporation Commission: How to Find Information for Wells on Your Property, by...

Dear Self, Today is the first day in a long journey for you in a career you don’t comprehend yet. You will learn that you will be forced...

Every oil company I’ve ever worked for has routinely paid unclaimed royalties for an account usually title, “Unknown Owners” or some...

This is one of the most frustrating experiences for a mineral rights owner or a royalty owner. They are being paid by two (or more)...

One. Always look for new information in the areas of oil and gas industry legal issues. Save as favorites websites such as...

When the decimal on your check for a gas well does not match the decimal on the division order you signed—or that you received but never...

Every major paper in America (and the world, perhaps) will provide the most current details of Anadarko’s decision to terminate their...

An article appearing in the Bloomberg website on April 24, 2019 (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-23/trump-jones-act-natur...

A new online training system is about to be launched that will change the way companies approach training new hires into oil and gas land...

At least, it feels that way. On March 21, 2019 the United States District Court of Western Louisiana handed down a ruling that made the...

Three skills essential for a senior-level lease analyst are (1) title analysis, (2) lease clause interpretation for data extraction, and...

Simply put, a horizontal allocation well is a horizontal well that begins on one lease or pooled unit and ends in another lease or pooled...

Not too many mineral owners know what happens to their oil and gas lease after it disappears into the vaults of the company that took it...

This blog entry continues where last week’s entry left off, about to discuss Reason No. 2 for why far too many Louisiana royalty owners...

The majority of Louisiana royalty owners do not know about what is called Louisiana Risk Fee Royalties. As a division order analyst who...

Of course, there are many who would disagree with that assessment. It’s all relative, of course. And highly subjective. For industry...

Just the other day, I received an email from a royalty owner, addressed to me. It raised my eyebrows for a number of serious reasons,...

Microsoft Office. Repeat after me, “Microsoft Office.” Particularly Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, and Microsoft Outlook. Power Point...

Many division order analysts are squeamish about working Oklahoma as a geographic area. This is because Oklahoma is unique in its royalty...