# Question About Royalty Check
**URL:** https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/question-about-royalty-check/28611
**Category:** Major County, OK
**Created:** [June 27, 2018, 2:38am UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/question-about-royalty-check/28611 "2018-06-27T02:38:31Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Susan\_Coolen](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Susan_Coolen)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2018, 2:38am UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/question-about-royalty-check/28611/1 "2018-06-27T02:38:31Z")
I recently received a check from Staghorn. Normally I get an under $200 check every couple of months. This month I got a large check! The stub listed production as far back as 12/2017. How does that work? Why wouldn’t they have released the funds as they were produced? I don’t recall getting any info on sinking another well/spacing etc. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks Susan Coolen
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### Author:  [@Cole](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Cole)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2018, 2:49am UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/question-about-royalty-check/28611/2 "2018-06-27T02:49:33Z")
They may have produced it back in 2017 and had it put in storage until now. Most likely because of oil prices, so they waited for prices to go up a little before selling.
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### Author:  [@Susan\_Coolen](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Susan_Coolen)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2018, 3:47am UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/question-about-royalty-check/28611/3 "2018-06-27T03:47:07Z")
H’mmmm Thanks…I didn’t know they could do that! Susan
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### Author:  [@Rick\_Howell](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Rick_Howell)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2018, 5:10am UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/question-about-royalty-check/28611/4 "2018-06-27T05:10:40Z")
The dates on the check stub is the sale date. You are paid by date of sale, not production. I receive payments from one well that produces about a barrel a day. Every 5-6 months the purchaser picks up a load of around 150 barrels. That is the transaction that generates the check.
You would need to look at the entire stub and compare past stubs to see what happened.
It could be an adjustment going back to Dec 2017. It is also possible there is a new well. As much as we can guess about what happened, there is not enough data to tell.
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### Author:  [@MRFAdmin\_SV](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/MRFAdmin_SV)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2025, 6:05pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/question-about-royalty-check/28611/5 "2025-01-11T18:05:15Z")