# D.O and Royalty checks
**URL:** https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/d-o-and-royalty-checks/8410
**Category:** Doddridge County, WV
**Created:** [November 20, 2014, 6:38pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/d-o-and-royalty-checks/8410 "2014-11-20T18:38:15Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Nancy\_Mosley](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Nancy_Mosley)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2014, 7:46pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/d-o-and-royalty-checks/8410/61 "2014-12-22T19:46:44Z")
Just a guess, Deck short for declaration? Hope somebody knows.
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### Author:  [@Ancel\_Smith](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Ancel_Smith)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2015, 10:20pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/d-o-and-royalty-checks/8410/62 "2015-04-26T22:20:23Z")
Arnold, this is a great post you started last November. “… signed leases with Antero, wells permitted, wells drilled, months go by (11) and still waiting for D.O.”
Short questions to you and the others on this D.O. process: When well(s) are drilled on your property, the trigger to getting paid begins with the D.O.
1. Is the D.O. initiated by Antero and is prepared by the State DEP or
2. By both the State & Antero?
3. Does the clock to get the D.O. (and paid) start when the bits are sunk?
4. Where is the State once the well is (being) drilled and production is occurring?
I am also calling Denver/Bridgeport weekly (as I presently do to find out the status) and just like you do.
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### Author:  [@system](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2018, 12:05am UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/d-o-and-royalty-checks/8410/63 "2018-08-15T00:05:11Z")
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