When it comes to the question of whether your mineral rights will expire or terminate, the answer is dependent upon how you originally received the mineral interest, and whether prior conveyances of the land and/or minerals applied reservations or limiting language that affects your mineral rights. In other words, your...
Every mineral owner wishes they could figure out what their minerals are worth at any given time. It is pretty easy to do that with Real Estate because most of those transactions become public, and enable Central Appraisal Districts (in Texas) to appraise the land for county taxing purposes. On the...
I’ve been taught to buy low and sell high, but picking up some cheap oil stocks in the darkest days of the Covid-19 shutdown after oil prices went negative, was one of the harder investment decisions I’ve made. Even though I have a healthy skepticism about EVERYTHING we see in...
About every three years we find ourselves writing about an oil price collapse. Oil price collapses are usually tied to market conditions, where a slight over supply drives down prices dramatically. And those market conditions many times cause OPEC+ nations to start fighting about how they share the production cuts...
When it comes to who has the crystal ball for predicting the future of oil and gas, our staff would agree that our combined 70 plus years of oil and gas industry experience has taught us that even the largest, most equipped and experienced organizations in the world can’t accurately...
This first nine days of February, 2018, have been, financially speaking, absolutely WILD. The stock market has reacted with historic price swings in response to Fed announcements of interest rate increases, plus concerns over national debt. Interest rates not only affect the stock market, they also affect the values of...
You may have experienced the realities of the inherent risks in the oil and gas business. As of January, 2015, oil prices have dropped approximately sixty percent in just a few months and natural gas prices have slid about one third in less than two months. While we hope for...
We find ourselves very near the top of a real estate cycle, and consequently, many investors are selling their real estate investments to capture their profits. If you find yourself in that position, you may find it interesting to know that you can acquire oil and gas mineral interests with...
On September 7, 2016, Apache Corp. announced its discovery of the Alpine High, located primarily in southern Reeves County. Here is an excerpt from their announcement: HOUSTON, Sept. 7, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Apache Corporation (NYSE, Nasdaq: APA) today announced that after more than two years of extensive geologic and geophysical work,...
The article below from the July issue of Oil and Gas Investor is posted on our site in an effort to help mineral and royalty owners understand the complexity of forces impacting oil prices, particularly the strength of the dollar. In search of a higher price per barrel, the global oil...
Every now and then we find an article that demonstrates why we hold our philosophy of wisely managing oil and gas minerals as an asset, without emotional ties, that has a certain value today, but nobody knows about tomorrow. I hope you will find this article interesting and informative. Forecasts are...
In an effort to get offers on some acreage, a mineral broker recently sent out a mass email with the Subject line – “Is anybody out there buying minerals anymore?” My how times change, and change fast! Year 2014 seems like years ago, not just last year. Almost every mineral...
How many professionals do you hire during any given year? A few, five, or maybe ten? Let’s see….lawyers, realtors, doctors, dentists, orthodontists, veterinarians, insurance agents, financial advisors, cpa’s, and the list goes on! We have learned that we cannot know enough about certain areas of business and life, so we...
DO NOT SIGN a Purchase and Sale Agreement (PSA) that: Commits you to sell at a stated price when the buyer in the PSA is not equally committed to buying at the stated price. This is the case when the PSA states that it is subject to buyer’s upper management...
As if we didn’t have enough risk components to consider when evaluating our oil and gas interests, be sure to add the EPA and environmentalists right up there with the national and world economies, Middle East unrest, and the volatile commodity market. Caple Royalty Services works extensively to warn royalty...
Anybody know some great success stories about the winners of multi-million dollar lotteries? They seem hard to find, at least compared to how easy it is to find stories of the lives and families that have become fragmented over how those winnings were shared and used. Let me ask you a...
Grandpa may have said to never sell the farm or the minerals, but we live in a very different world today. Faltering world economies and new technology have demonstrated just how fast we can move from too little to too much natural gas. So, have you awakened to this new...