If you own a royalty interest in Susquehanna County, you have probably had this moment. The news quotes a natural gas price, you do the arithmetic on your decimal, and the check arrives for noticeably less. Nothing has gone wrong. Between a wellbore near Dimock and your mailbox, the price is marked down twice —…
A Greene County family finds a deed from 1902 in which a great-grandfather sold “all the coal and other minerals” under the farm, and reasonably concludes there is nothing left to own. Very often that conclusion is wrong. Under Pennsylvania law the word minerals in an old deed usually did not carry the oil and…
If you own Marcellus Shale mineral rights or royalties in Pennsylvania, you’ve likely faced this decision at some point: keep collecting royalty checks, or sell for a lump sum today? It’s one of the most common questions we hear, and there’s no universal right answer — but there is a clear way to think through…