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Today we're looking at Lease Royalty Rates.

A breakdown of the major changes recently made to the engineering model that may have impacted your property value.

If you sold minerals in 2020, keep reading. We’re diving into how to reduce capital gains taxes owed after a mineral sale of inherited properties.

This week in At the Root of It, your bite-sized explanation of key industry news: Crude oil prices hold flat at $40 Operator bankruptcy filings climb

This week in At the Root of It, your bite-sized explanation of key industry news: Gasoline prices slow down their rise as demand starts to flatten US drilling rig count down 15th straight week to 266

This week in At the Root of It, your bite-sized explanation of key industry news: More crude oil will be hitting the market in July A crash course on “OPEC+” Why gasoline prices are likely to spike this summer Two large companies to watch for bankruptcy filings

This week we continue several of the same themes from last week as OPEC+ maintained their production cuts, which continued gasoline price increases, which encouraged US producers to continue bringing back wells online, which now brings some early reports of supply building once again (unfortunately, as predicted). This week in At the Root of It, your bite-sized explanation of key industry news.

What did gasoline prices do this week? What’s causing the 14% jump in crude oil pricing? Are wells coming back online in response? Do experts know which wells to shut in? What’s the latest industry employment news? This week in At the Root of It, your bite-sized explanation of key industry news.

It’s not hard to find a headline right now referencing “shutting in wells” or “shut-in production” due to COVID-19 reduced pricing or storage being at capacity. But what does that actually mean? Is it as easy as flipping a switch on and off based on the operators’ whim? And how does shutting in a well affect the long-term production?

What did gasoline prices do this week? Did last week’s crude oil price jump stick? How will this market affect royalty owners’ taxes? Is drilling activity continuing to drop? This week in At the Root of It, your bite-sized explanation of key industry news.

Are crude prices jumping up again? Will gasoline prices go up too? Is gasoline the main use of crude? How is natural gas being affected? How much has oil & gas activity slowed down? This week in At the Root of It, your bite-sized explanation of key industry news.

Why is the price at the gas pump going up again? Is oil price still negative? How are energy companies handling this crisis? This week in At the the Root of It, your bite-sized explanation of key industry news.

Today we’re going to explore the components and uses of a Reserve Report, the foundation of property evaluations. In short, a reserve report gives estimates of the how much producible oil & gas is still in the ground (which is “reserves”), the future producing rates from such reserves, the future net revenue from such reserves, and the present value of such future net revenue.