Typical Landowner Questions We Answer

1. What is the value of the remaining royalties? (Every landowner should have at least an idea what this value is.)

2. What is the likely value of the royalty for the remaining tax year?

3. What is the likely value of the royalty on a monthly basis for the next 12 months and subsequent years?

4. How does the royalty receipt production compare to the production reported to the PA DEP?

5. If there is a discrepancy between the receipt production and the PA DEP, how much is it worth?

6. Why is this month’s royalty so different than some other month?

7. Why is my neighbor getting a lot more ( or less) than I am? Is something wrong?

8. Why isn’t my royalty what I expected from reading the newspaper, the internet, or estimates from others?  I thought I could quit my day job.

9. My elderly parent is receiving royalties but I am not sure where the money goes and how much it should be? I only have this one old receipt.

10. How much royalty should have my elderly parent received last year?

11. Should I sell my royalty interest in existing wells and for how much?

12. What is the level of development for my property?

13. What is my real royalty rate after deductions?

14. What is the relative performance of the wells I have an interest in?

15. Are any of my wells decreasing abnormally?

16. What is the availability of the wells to date?

17. Additional wells are being drilled in my unit.  Production is likely to start next year and their royalties will be added to my royalties from the existing wells.  What is the likely income to look like over the next several years?  (Performance of wells yet to be drilled are simulated by selecting any number of wells in the vicinity with known performance.)