# naturalgas.land - Natural Gas Land | Gas royalty reviews for owners > A landman working for you checks your Haynesville, Cotton Valley or Eagle Ford decimal and stub deductions and writes back a value range. ## Overview & Scope - **Canonical Domain**: https://naturalgas.land/ - **Contact Email**: hello@naturalgas.land - **Phone**: (307) 263-8515 - **Privacy Policy**: https://naturalgas.land/privacy.html - **Terms of Use**: https://naturalgas.land/terms.html - **Access Policy**: Public browser calculators, checklists, and reference guides on this domain are free and ungated. 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Res. Code Sections 91.502-91.504. - [Gas royalty clauses and post-production costs | Natural Gas Land](https://naturalgas.land/texas-gas-royalty-post-production-costs): What four Texas Supreme Court opinions decided about post-production costs in a gas royalty, read from the opinions themselves. Not legal advice. - [Railroad Commission gas well production | Natural Gas Land](https://naturalgas.land/texas-rrc-gas-well-production-data): What an operator's Form PR reports for a Texas gas well, what the Railroad Commission's Production Data Query shows, and how it differs from a stub. - [Why Did My Gas Royalty Check Drop? Checklist | naturalgas.land](https://naturalgas.land/why-did-my-gas-royalty-check-drop): How to tell why a monthly natural gas royalty check dropped: hyperbolic shale decline, basis differentials, prior-period accounting reversals. ## Key Questions Answered on This Domain - **I got a letter offering to buy my minerals. Is it fair?** (https://naturalgas.land/) - **Why is my gas check smaller than the price in the news?** (https://naturalgas.land/) - **My checks fell by more than half in a year. 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Because Texas and Louisiana run on completely different pooling, unitization, and depth-severance rules, reviewing a Haynesville check stub starts with the state line. - This is general information from independent landmen, not legal advice. For Louisiana parish mineral title, see our sister site parish.land. - In the Haynesville and Bossier Shale, horizontal wells are routinely drilled with 10,000- to 15,000-foot laterals at true vertical depths of 10,500 to 14,000+ feet. Reviewing an owner's royalty or buyout offer requires checking three basin-specific questions: (1) how cross-unit or allocation-well laterals split production across multiple units or surveys; (2) whether an older, shallower Cotton Valley or Travis Peak well holds the deep Haynesville rights by production (HBP) or whether a horizontal Pugh / vertical depth-severance clause released the deep interval; and (3) whether post-production gathering and CO₂-treating charges are permitted under the lease (or barred for unleased compulsory-unit owners in Louisiana under Self v. BPX Operating Co.). ### Natural Gas Land | Gas royalty reviews for owners - **URL**: https://naturalgas.land/ - **Headline**: A landman checks your gas royalty, and works for you. - **Summary**: A landman working for you checks your Haynesville, Cotton Valley or Eagle Ford decimal and stub deductions and writes back a value range. - **Sections**: Whose side we're on; What the checks add up to; What comes off a gas check; Haynesville, Cotton Valley, Eagle Ford; Guides; Words on a stub or a division order; Questions owners ask; Ask for a review - For mineral and royalty owners in the Haynesville, Cotton Valley and Eagle Ford gas plays. Send a check stub, your division order or the lease. We check your decimal against the unit, read what comes off the stub, and write back a review: what matches, what doesn't, and a value range for the checks still to come, with every assumption written down. - Independent landmen. (307) 263-8515 - This site does reviews, for you. We act as your landman on the interest you send, once we confirm it in writing before any work starts. ### Plant Products, NGLs & Residue Gas on a Stub | naturalgas.land - **URL**: https://naturalgas.land/plant-products-and-ngl-royalty-check-stub - **Headline**: Plant products, NGLs, and residue gas: reading a wet-gas royalty check stub - **Summary**: Why wet gas wells in the Eagle Ford, Cotton Valley, and Permian pay on three separate check-stub lines: condensate, plant products (NGLs), and residue gas. - **Sections**: On this page; 1The three product lines from one wet-gas well; 2Plant shrinkage and why residue Mcf is lower than RRC wellhead Mcf; 3POP (Percentage of Proceeds) vs. fee-based processing; 4What to check in your lease's plant-products clause; Ask for a wet-gas stub review; Contact; Entity - In liquid-rich gas plays like the Eagle Ford and parts of the Cotton Valley, your check stub splits a single well's stream into condensate (barrels), plant products / NGLs (gallons or barrels), and residue gas (Mcf or MMBtu). Here is what each line means and how plant processing contracts affect your payout. - This is general information from independent landmen, not legal advice. - Dry gas (such as deep Haynesville Shale gas) is almost pure methane and goes straight from treating into a sales pipeline. Rich or wet gas (common across the Eagle Ford, Cotton Valley, and Permian) comes out of the ground carrying heavier hydrocarbons mixed into the gas stream. At the wellhead separator, free liquid drops out as condensate (sold by the barrel like crude oil). The remaining high-BTU gas travels to a cryogenic processing plant, which chills the gas to strip out Natural Gas Liquids (NGLs / plant products), ethane, propane, normal butane, isobutane, and natural gasoline, and sells the remaining dry methane at the plant tailgate as residue gas. Because NGLs and residue gas are sold under separate contracts and units of measure, they appear as separate product lines on your royalty stub. ### Post-Production Deductions on Texas Gas Stubs | naturalgas.land - **URL**: https://naturalgas.land/post-production-deductions-texas-gas-royalty - **Headline**: Post-production deductions on a Texas gas royalty check stub: codes, statutes, and lease clauses - **Summary**: How to read gathering, compression, dehydration, treating, processing, and transport deductions on a Texas gas stub under Nat. Res. Code Sections 91.502-91.504. - **Sections**: On this page; 1Common deduction codes on a gas check stub; 2Explicit stub deductions vs. netback pricing; 3Your statutory right to an explanation (§§ 91.502 & 91.504); 4How a landman compares your stub to your lease; Ask for a check stub review; Contact; Entity - A Texas gas royalty check stub often shows 15% to 35% of gross gas value coming off for gathering, compression, dehydration, treating, processing, and transportation, or hides those costs inside a reduced "netback" sales price. Here is how to audit each line against your lease and Texas Natural Resources Code Sections 91.502 and 91.504. - This is general information from independent landmen, not legal advice. An oil and gas attorney advises on whether a specific deduction breaches your lease. - Under Texas law, a royalty owner never pays the costs of drilling or operating the well (production costs), but whether the royalty owner shares in post-production costs, gathering, compression, dehydration, treating, processing, and transportation after the gas leaves the wellhead, turns on the exact valuation language in the oil and gas lease or royalty deed (see our four-case Texas Supreme Court guide). On the stub itself, Texas Natural Resources Code § 91.502 requires the payor to itemize gross sales volume, price, severance taxes, and any other deductions or adjustments, and § 91.504 gives the royalty owner a statutory right to demand a written explanation of any deduction within 60 days by certified mail. ### Gas royalty clauses and post-production costs | Natural Gas Land - **URL**: https://naturalgas.land/texas-gas-royalty-post-production-costs - **Headline**: How Texas courts read a gas royalty clause on post-production costs - **Summary**: What four Texas Supreme Court opinions decided about post-production costs in a gas royalty, read from the opinions themselves. Not legal advice. - **Sections**: On this page; 1The usual rule and two ways the words change it; 2Heritage (1996): market value at the well; 3Hyder (2016): price received and "cost-free"; 4Sheppard (2023): costs added to gross proceeds; 5Fasken (2026): a 1960 deed in Webb County; 6The four side by side; 7The same gas, three clauses, made-up numbers - Two owners can hold leases that look alike and still be paid on different amounts, because the words that value the gas are different. This page reads four Texas Supreme Court opinions and says what each one decided about its own lease or deed, and no more. - This is general information, not legal advice. It covers Texas courts only. It reports what four opinions decided about the words in their own leases and deeds. It doesn't tell you what your lease means or whether a deduction on your stub is allowed. An oil and gas attorney who reads your lease can. - A royalty is usually free of the cost of producing the gas but not of the cost of getting it ready for sale and to market, and the parties to a lease or deed can agree to something else. The Texas Supreme Court says so in each of the four opinions below. What settles a case is the wording. In Heritage (1996), a lease that valued the royalty at the well was read to take reasonable transportation cost out of the sale price, even though it also said no deductions could come out of the value of the royalty. In Hyder (2016), a gas royalty paid on the price the lessee actually received did not bear post-production costs, and neither did a "cost-free" overriding royalty in that lease. In Sheppard (2023), Eagle Ford leases that told the producers to add certain price reductions to gross proceeds were enforced as written, including reductions a downstream buyer took. In Fasken (2026), a 1960 Webb County deed that reserved a royalty "free of cost forever" in minerals "produced" from the land was read as a royalty valued at the wellhead. None of the four says what your lease means. ### Railroad Commission gas well production | Natural Gas Land - **URL**: https://naturalgas.land/texas-rrc-gas-well-production-data - **Headline**: Reading the Railroad Commission's production report for a Texas gas well - **Summary**: What an operator's Form PR reports for a Texas gas well, what the Railroad Commission's Production Data Query shows, and how it differs from a stub. - **Sections**: On this page; 1Who files Form PR, and when; 2What the report counts for a gas well; 3Where the gas went: disposition codes; 4One made-up month; 5What PDQ shows; 6The report next to a stub; 7What the Railroad Commission says it can't do - The Railroad Commission of Texas publishes monthly production for gas wells. This page explains what those numbers count, what the disposition codes mean, and how the report differs from the stub your payor sends. - This is general information, not legal advice. It covers Texas gas wells only. It describes what the Railroad Commission's own forms and pages say. The Commission says it has no authority over lease and royalty matters, and this page doesn't tell you whether a payment is right. - For a Texas gas well, the operator files a Monthly Production Report, Form PR, with the Railroad Commission on or before the last day of the month after the production month. It reports the gas produced in MCF at a base of 14.65 psi and 60 degrees Fahrenheit, where each part of that gas went, and any condensate. The Commission's Production Data Query (PDQ) is built from those reports. The report has no price and no royalty owner on it, and the Commission says its numbers come directly from what operators report and can be revised. A royalty stub is a different document: the statute has it show the gas sold, the price, deductions and your decimal. The report counts all gas produced and where it went, and a stub counts gas sold, so the two totals need not match. ### Why Did My Gas Royalty Check Drop? Checklist | naturalgas.land - **URL**: https://naturalgas.land/why-did-my-gas-royalty-check-drop - **Headline**: Why did my gas royalty check drop? Six things to check on two consecutive stubs - **Summary**: How to tell why a monthly natural gas royalty check dropped: hyperbolic shale decline, basis differentials, prior-period accounting reversals. - **Sections**: On this page; 1The 6-point check-stub diagnostic table; 2Normal Year-1 hyperbolic decline vs. offset frac shut-ins; 3Prior-period adjustments (negative reversal rows); 4Unexplained owner decimal reductions; Ask for a check stub review; Contact; Entity - When a monthly gas royalty check falls by 40%, 60%, or 80%, the cause is always visible in one of five columns on the check stub: gross well volume, realized price per Mcf, owner decimal, post-production deductions, or prior-period adjustments. Here is how to isolate the cause in ten minutes. - This is general information from independent landmen, not legal advice. - Every natural gas royalty check is the product of four numbers: Gross Unit Volume (Mcf) × Realized Price ($/Mcf) × Owner Decimal − Taxes & Deductions, plus or minus any Prior-Period Adjustments (PPAs). Lay last month's check stub next to this month's stub for the same well. If the drop came from Gross Volume, check whether the well is in its steep first-year hyperbolic shale decline or was temporarily shut in for offset frac protection ("frac hit"). If the drop came from Price, check regional pipeline basis differentials. If the drop came from a changed Owner Decimal, a new deduction line, or a block of negative prior-period reversal rows, you have an accounting or title change worth investigating immediately. --- ## Complete FAQ Reference ### Q: I got a letter offering to buy my minerals. Is it fair? A: Turn it into numbers you can compare. Work out your NRA, put the offer's price per NRA in the worksheet , and see how many months of modeled checks it equals. If you want a read from someone who isn't the buyer, ask for a review. An oil and gas attorney is a good second opinion before you sign anything. Source: https://naturalgas.land/ ### Q: Why is my gas check smaller than the price in the news? A: The news quotes Henry Hub. Your gas sells somewhere else, at a different price (basis), adjusted for heat content. Then severance tax and any post-production costs come off, and you get your decimal of what's left. Source: https://naturalgas.land/ ### Q: My checks fell by more than half in a year. Is something wrong? A: Maybe not. Shale gas wells come on at their highest rate and decline fast early; that's a curve like the one above, not your well. A check that stops, or a decimal that changes, is different: look for a new division order, a title question that put you in suspense, or a shut-in. Source: https://naturalgas.land/ ### Q: Who do you work for? A: You. Every request here is a review, confirmed in writing before any work starts. Source: https://naturalgas.land/ ### Q: Are you lawyers? A: No. We're independent landmen. If your lease or stub raises a legal claim, we'll say so and point you to an oil and gas attorney where the land sits. Source: https://naturalgas.land/