A basin decides your geology. A state line decides your law. Most basins cross one, and the difference between the two sides is frequently larger than owners realize. These pages cover both.
These are the pages where the law matters most, because two owners with nearly identical geology and nearly identical leases can end up with materially different checks depending on which side of a line they are on.
North Dakota and Montana. A cost free 16 percent for unleased North Dakota owners against one eighth in Montana, a 20 year abandonment statute on one side and none on the other, and a 6 percent royalty withholding on the other.
Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Deductions are lawful under Kilmer on one side of the line and largely forbidden under Tawney and Romeo on the other. Plus the Dunham Rule, which decides whether you own the gas at all.
Eastern Ohio and beneath Appalachian Marcellus acreage. Ohio gives a surface owner two independent statutory routes to take a severed mineral interest, and the Ohio Supreme Court has confirmed both work.
Wyoming. Seven potential targets stacked under one section, a statutory royalty definition that protects your check, and no state income tax when you sell.
Colorado, Wyoming, and Nebraska. What SB 19-181 did to development timing, the 45 percent pooling threshold that gives unleased owners real leverage, and the Codell inventory nobody counts.
West Texas and southeast New Mexico. The most valuable minerals on earth and the most heavily mailed. Stacked benches, and a state line where the tax and royalty regimes diverge sharply.
Woodford, Meramec, Osage, and Springer across Grady, Garvin, McClain, Kingfisher, Blaine, and Canadian. The sections we know best.
Deep Anadarko gas and the Granite Wash trend running to the Texas Panhandle.
The northeast Oklahoma oil play that has quietly become one of the most active in the state.
Eastern Oklahoma gas, from the Woodford to the shallow Hartshorne coals, and the Arkansas side of the same geology.
South central Oklahoma, small, structurally complex, and largely overlooked by everyone else.
Forced pooling, the Corporation Commission, 47 of 77 counties bought in, and the state we understand better than anyone selling you mail.
Reeves, Loving, Ward, and Culberson, plus the New Mexico side in Lea and Eddy.
South Texas oil, condensate, and gas with more than a decade of development history.
East Texas dry gas, and the play continues across the line into the Louisiana parishes where prescription law changes everything.
The play that started the shale era, now a long tail annuity under the Fort Worth metro.
Cotton Valley, Travis Peak, and the legacy East Texas Field.
Granite Wash and the Anadarko Basin geology we work daily on the Oklahoma side.
Send a check stub, a legal description, or just a county and a family name. We will tell you what basin you sit in, what has been drilled and permitted around you, what the interest is worth and how we got there, and whether we think you should keep it. Free, and no obligation of any kind.
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