# How do you know if you should be getting royalties
**URL:** https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/how-do-you-know-if-you-should-be-getting-royalties/27576
**Category:** Monongalia County, WV
**Created:** [June 7, 2018, 3:21pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/how-do-you-know-if-you-should-be-getting-royalties/27576 "2018-06-07T15:21:43Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Debra\_Edwards](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Debra_Edwards)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2018, 3:21pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/how-do-you-know-if-you-should-be-getting-royalties/27576/1 "2018-06-07T15:21:43Z")
My brother and I were found by a landman… Sam… nice guy. He said we owned/inherited property on our mom’s side. It’s not much, but we got $1,500/5-year lease bonus and 15% royalties. That was over a year ago. Then he called again, said he found more, got a $500/5-year flat lease with 15% royalties, and that is post production. It’s not much property. Everyone has signed off on the first property. They started work last November 2017. We have yet to see a division order or anything from the company, Northeast Energy. Being new to this, I have no clue. I need to know how to locate the wells on or around our property. The little plots are by a gas company and on the border by the basin of the Appalachian Trail.
Also, I heard that a law was going around to stop them from taking post production costs. Any info or site I can go to to learn about this? Wanted to say thanks to the folks who put this site up. The info is great and I used it and past questions to get the land leases.
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### Author:  [@AdamFel](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/AdamFel)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2018, 10:30am UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/how-do-you-know-if-you-should-be-getting-royalties/27576/2 "2018-06-08T10:30:43Z")
Try this link here. [https://dep.wv.gov/oil-and-gas/databaseinfo/Pages/default.aspx](https://dep.wv.gov/oil-and-gas/databaseinfo/Pages/default.aspx)
It’ll show you if the wells are producing.
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### Author:  [@Debra\_Edwards](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Debra_Edwards)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2018, 3:30pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/how-do-you-know-if-you-should-be-getting-royalties/27576/3 "2018-06-08T15:30:08Z")
How do I know which wells are on my property or going through it?
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### Author:  [@AdamFel](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/AdamFel)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2018, 4:34pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/how-do-you-know-if-you-should-be-getting-royalties/27576/4 "2018-06-08T16:34:34Z")
[WVDEP Oil&Gas Well Information](http://tagis.dep.wv.gov/oog/) not sure if this opens to the map or not but you can zoom into your area to see if it is producing.
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### Author:  [@Politically\_Incorrect](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Politically_Incorrect)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2018, 4:56am UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/how-do-you-know-if-you-should-be-getting-royalties/27576/5 "2018-06-09T04:56:28Z")
There are a lot of missing wells on that DEP site but thanks for listing it.
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### Author:  [@Debra\_Edwards](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Debra_Edwards)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2018, 3:37pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/how-do-you-know-if-you-should-be-getting-royalties/27576/6 "2018-06-09T15:37:52Z")
True it only has older data from before we signed the leases. I went to the production report and it shows Northeast Natural Energy producing a lot, but it also shows the permits issued. I have looked at tax maps and so on but can’t seem to locate the exact spot of our property.
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### Author:  [@MRFAdmin\_SV](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/MRFAdmin_SV)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2025, 4:38pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/how-do-you-know-if-you-should-be-getting-royalties/27576/7 "2025-01-11T16:38:32Z")