I just checked my Jan 2016 Oxy check stub for Rife Gas Unit and Garza State GU, both in Starr County. I’ve got a host of deductions going back to June 2013. These deductions result in an overall reduction of about 25% to my check. As a royalty owner you typically can’t recover royalties in Texas that are more than 4 years old courtesy of the Texas Supreme Court in:
HECI EXPLORATION COMPANY and Browning Oil Company, Inc., Petitioners, v. Russell H. NEEL, Sr., Russell H. Neel, Jr., LeRoy K. Neel, and Kathleen Neel Insall, Respondents. No. 97-0403. Decided: October 29, 1998.