I just received an offer from MPH Production Company in Tyler, Texas to purchase Mineral rights for $5,250 PER NET MINERAL ACRE. According to an old thread "royalty acre" is 100% ownership of an acre leased at 1/8th. Assuming this as correct then that would amount to $10,500 per acre leased at 1/4. This is for non-producing HS acreage. Has anyone else received this offer? I'm not interested at that price, but it was higher than other unsolicited offers. It also made it clear that it was an offer to buy and not lease. I could only find one transaction by them in Bossier from a few years ago. Just wondering if they are to Encana what MC Minerals are to Chesapeake.

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SB,
I thought that spudding a well interrupted perscription. Period. No difference in royalty or minerals. Just what I thought.
Think it has to be production in the case of a royalty interest ownership.
I have bought and sold "minerals" on many occasions. Always bought and sold minerals. Knowing they were subject to any existing lease. I still do not grasp the concept of the difference between "royalties" and "minerals".
I buy your minerals, it is subject to whatever lease may be in effect. Then I get the "royalty interest" that the lease specifies. Someone please explain this to me.
Bird Dawg,

I would have to agree that a dry hole would interrupt prescription whether a sale of royalty or an out right sale of mineral interest.

I think a sale of "royalties" usually comes into play when a % of existing production is sold. I assume that since this is a common way of conducting business that they have continued in their normal way of conducting business.

If someone buys only royalty interest they don't buy the right to lease should that become an issue in the future.

Royalty acre = 1 acre leased at 1/8th
mineral acre = 1 acre regardless of lease amount

(At least this is my understanding)
I have only bought minerals myself, Bird Dog, never sold any. I have been approached recently by royalty interest flippers who had recently bought royalties and, I'm sure, were trying to sell 1/2 of them at a price which enabled them to recoup their entire cost. Never having bought royalties, I asked one of them to explain them. He gave a thorough explanation which at the time I understood , but now I'm a little fuzzy. I know a royalty unit is 1/8 and there are 5,120 royalty units in a section (640 multiplied by 8). After that he lost me. I think I'll stick to minerals.
Thanks to Parker and Spring Branch and any others,
I still can not grasp the concept of any difference. Don't take me wrong, I am sure there could be a difference and I just don't understand it. Thanks for ya'lls input. Always greatly appreciated.
I gotta keep digging on this one. Thanks guys.
I still say, if I bought minerals and the are subject to an existing 1/8 lease, I know what I get. If they are subject to a 1/4 lease, I know what I get. I would much rather buy unleased, and then I can negotiate my own lease. Please tell my what is wrong with that scenario.
Most all of the rotyalty deeds i have seen refer to buying a royalty in all future production. There does not have to be a current lease. The royalty will prescibe back, just like minerals, but after 10 years of no production (or a successful well test).
No, because the mineral owner still retains all powers of leaseing. The mineral owner is entitiled to all monies from bonus payments, rentals, and all other non-royalty payments. The Royalty owner has NO rights in lease negotiations whatsoever. By selling their royalty, The mineral owner is retaining all control over the minerals beneath their land, while selling all or part of the future royalty revenue derived from the land.

Whereas, a owner who sells their minerals give up that control, and maybe even some rights as to the surface rights, depending of course on the deed.
CHAPTER 5. THE MINERAL ROYALTY

PART 1. THE NATURE OF THE MINERAL ROYALTY

§80. Nature of mineral royalty

A mineral royalty is the right to participate in production of minerals from land owned by another or land subject to a mineral servitude owned by another. Unless expressly qualified by the parties, a royalty is a right to share in gross production free of mining or drilling and production costs.
CHAPTER 4. THE MINERAL SERVITUDE

PART 1. THE NATURE OF THE MINERAL SERVITUDE

§21. Nature of mineral servitude

A mineral servitude is the right of enjoyment of land belonging to another for the purpose of exploring for and producing minerals and reducing them to possession and ownership.

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