Since the start of 2020, crude oil prices have seen the sharpest drop in the history of the energy industry. Futures contracts of West Texas Intermediate closed at a mind-bending negative 37.63 dollars per barrel on April 20th. Basically, companies that had over-purchased oil were paying others to get it off their hands since they had nowhere to put it. Since then, prices have inched back up to around $20/BBL, but the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic has kept oil consumption low and

This article will present two rules-of-thumb for oil and gas property valuations and discusses why they should be used with caution.

A lot of landowners have questions regarding the expiration of mineral rights. This article aims to clarify some of the issues that tend to