Every operator has a division order department. Now you have one.
Two decades of division order work — reading the instruments, running the decimals, clearing the title defects that hold a check in suspense. Same work, the other side of the table.
What I can help withWhy this exists
Your decimal was calculated by someone doing their job well — on behalf of the operator.
It is usually right.
When it isn't, nobody is assigned to notice. And a decimal that is wrong is wrong every month, on every well, until somebody checks it.
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Track what you own
MyDecimal keeps your ownership in one place: which wells, what decimal, who pays you, and what changed. Nothing is ever overwritten — move the date and see what your decimal was on any past day.
North Dakota today. The well records behind it are North Dakota's, so if your minerals are elsewhere the tool won't find them yet. The services below aren't limited by state.
Services
What I can help with
Division Order Review
A division order arrives, it states a decimal to eight places, and it asks for a signature. Most people sign it — there's nothing in the envelope explaining what you'd be agreeing to, or how to check the number.
I check it against your lease and your deed before you sign: whether the decimal reflects what you actually own, whether the acreage and unit are right, and what the language does and doesn't do to your rights. A division order sets up payment. It isn't a conveyance, and it shouldn't be treated like one.
Ownership Transfers
Minerals passed to you, or you moved them into a trust or an LLC, and the checks stopped. They usually haven't gone anywhere — the operator has put them in suspense until it can document who owns them now, and the letter explaining that is rarely specific about what would satisfy it.
I tell you what that land department actually needs: which instruments, recorded where, in whose name. Most transfers stall not because the ownership is unclear, but because the paperwork arrived in the wrong form.
Where a conveyance has to be drafted, I do the work an attorney would otherwise bill you for — running the chain, confirming the parties and the interest, assembling the legal descriptions — so their time goes to drafting rather than research. That is usually most of the invoice.
Title Curative
A gap in the chain of title. A name that doesn't match between two deeds. A probate never recorded in the county where the minerals sit. Any of these will hold a check indefinitely, and the notice you get about it is written for a title attorney.
I read the defect, tell you plainly what's wrong, and lay out what would clear it. Some of it you can do yourself. Some of it needs a lawyer — and I'll say so rather than billing you to find that out.
Calculation Assistance
Your decimal is a chain of multiplications: your net mineral acres over the unit acres, times your royalty rate, times whatever participation the unit assigns you. Any link in it can be wrong.
I rebuild it from your own documents and compare it against what you're being paid on. If they agree, you know. If they don't, you have the arithmetic to take back to them — which is a very different conversation from “I think my check is short.”
Owner Education
A check stub is a dense grid of volumes, prices, deductions and net, and nobody has ever explained it to you. Nor what suspense means, nor why your decimal changed when a well was added to the unit.
An hour, with your own statements in front of us, going line by line until you can read them yourself. This is the one I'd rather you didn't need twice.
Who you'd be working with
Two decades in division order administration with Williston Basin operators — the department that calculates decimals, sets up pay, and clears title. This is that work, done for the owner.