Owners in Sublette County, Wyoming expect one answer to what a royalty is worth there, because it is one county and the answer is always gas. It is not one answer. Sublette holds two gas accumulations with almost nothing to do with each other, and a royalty on one behaves nothing like a royalty on…
A royalty check reflects production, price and deductions all at once. When the number changes, most owners look at price first. In Wyoming in 2025, though, some of the biggest changes came from production itself, and the direction depended on the county. We added up the Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission’s well-level production data…
Two owners in the same Sublette County gas unit compare check stubs and find that one is paid noticeably less per thousand cubic feet than the other. Same wells, same month, same gas. The difference is almost always in the deduction lines, and in Wyoming those lines are governed by a statute that is more…