# Required Minimum Royalty Payments
**URL:** https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/required-minimum-royalty-payments/85331
**Category:** Texas Mineral Rights
**Created:** [January 5, 2026, 4:39pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/required-minimum-royalty-payments/85331 "2026-01-05T16:39:34Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@A\_Monty](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/A_Monty)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2026, 4:39pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/required-minimum-royalty-payments/85331/1 "2026-01-05T16:39:35Z")
I understand that in Texas operators may be able to hold proceeds until the amount due reaches $100. Is there any requirement that they must pay annually even if the amount is less than $100? Is there any recourse in Texas for getting paid on smaller amounts?
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### Author:  [@fjonesiv](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/fjonesiv)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2026, 9:55pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/required-minimum-royalty-payments/85331/2 "2026-01-05T21:55:55Z")
The Texas Natural Resources Code states there is a statutory requirement that accumulated oil and gas royalty payments that do not reach $100 be paid at least once within a 12-month period, IF the amount due has reached a minimum of $10.
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### Author:  [@M\_Barnes](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/M_Barnes)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2026, 10:00pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/required-minimum-royalty-payments/85331/3 "2026-01-05T22:00:48Z")
You can also change the Division Order minimum from $100 to $25 by filling out a new one.
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### Author:  [@A\_Monty](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/A_Monty)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2026, 8:42pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/required-minimum-royalty-payments/85331/4 "2026-01-06T20:42:21Z")
Do you make your own DO and if so, how? Or do you ask the company to send a new one and change the amount once you get it? These are inherited minerals, so I don’t have the original DO.
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### Author:  [@M\_Barnes](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/M_Barnes)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2026, 9:16pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/required-minimum-royalty-payments/85331/5 "2026-01-06T21:16:50Z")
You can use the NADOA template and fill in the correct information. Or you can ask the operator to send a new one and check it against the NADOA form. You do not want them to change any terms on the lease. I use the NADOA form if the operator form is trying to make it longer than a page and change anything that they should not change.
You have to double check the decimal amount to make sure that it is correct and matches your net mineral acres, royalty, etc.
[0\_NADOA\_Division Order Model Blank Form 2017v 2.pdf](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/uploads/short-url/uRmnfGoihWdncmA4XOWL8MczSaZ.pdf) (78.2 KB)
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### Author:  [@TGsanders](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/TGsanders)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2026, 12:08am UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/required-minimum-royalty-payments/85331/6 "2026-01-09T00:08:01Z")
Oklahoma has such minimum amount also. Haven’t received a check in many many months.
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### Author:  [@M\_Barnes](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/M_Barnes)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2026, 2:17pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/required-minimum-royalty-payments/85331/7 "2026-01-09T14:17:39Z")
OK has a minimum of $25 if you request it in writing.
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### Author:  [@Joy\_Roberts](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Joy_Roberts)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2026, 11:31pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/required-minimum-royalty-payments/85331/8 "2026-01-11T23:31:55Z")
Does Oklahoma have a minimum amount in royalty payments per year before you have to file a state income tax return?
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### Author:  [@M\_Barnes](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/M_Barnes)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2026, 5:34pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/required-minimum-royalty-payments/85331/9 "2026-01-12T17:34:28Z")
Check the OK code, but in 2025 any non-resident must file if over $1000 in income.
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### Author:  [@Joy\_Roberts](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Joy_Roberts)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2026, 9:33pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/required-minimum-royalty-payments/85331/10 "2026-01-12T21:33:40Z")
However, it appears there is no minimum amount of income for an LLC established in Texas and treated as a partnership, and the LLC must file Form 514 if there is any income whatsoever from Oklahoma sources. Do you agree?
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### Author:  [@M\_Barnes](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/M_Barnes)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2026, 9:35pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/required-minimum-royalty-payments/85331/11 "2026-01-12T21:35:37Z")
I am not a CPA. Our TX LLC files for any amount of income in OK.
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### Author:  [@Joy\_Roberts](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Joy_Roberts)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2026, 9:41pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/required-minimum-royalty-payments/85331/12 "2026-01-12T21:41:01Z")
Thanks, and I understand. Sometimes I think I need to be a CPA to understand some of these rules!
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### Author:  [@M\_Barnes](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/M_Barnes)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2026, 9:42pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/required-minimum-royalty-payments/85331/13 "2026-01-12T21:42:28Z")
I know I rely on our CPA to know the rules!
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### Author:  [@LanaStraub](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/LanaStraub)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2026, 8:22am UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/required-minimum-royalty-payments/85331/14 "2026-01-24T08:22:34Z")
TX Nat Resources Code Sec 91.402 likely has the information you are looking for. 91.402(f) states, "_Payment may be remitted to a payee annually for the aggregate of up to 12 months’ accumulation of proceeds if the payor owes the payee a total amount of $100 or less for production from all oil or gas wells for which the payor must pay the payee. However, the payor may hold accumulated proceeds of less than $10 until production ceases or the payor’s responsibility for making payment for production ceases, whichever occurs first. On the written request of the payee, the payor shall remit payment of accumulated proceeds to the payee annually if the payor owes the payee less than $10. On the written request of the payee, the payor shall remit payment of proceeds to the payee monthly if the payor owes the payee more than $25 but less than $100."_
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### Author:  [@A\_Monty](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/A_Monty)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2026, 2:29pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/required-minimum-royalty-payments/85331/15 "2026-01-24T14:29:08Z")
Thank you. I did get a check for $10.85 a few days ago.
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### Author:  [@Nancy\_Seitz](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Nancy_Seitz)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2026, 8:56am UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/required-minimum-royalty-payments/85331/16 "2026-04-01T08:56:23Z")
@A_Monty I would like to know this as well. I received a small check in 2024 for 2023 because it was such a small amount, so they held it. I thought I would receive a check in 2025 for 2024, but never did. When I looked up to find out the well’s activity, there were many more hundreds of barrels in 2025 than in 2024, so now I’m not sure what is going on. I only noticed it because of tax season. I reached out and provided the information I have and have not heard back from the land admin from Southwest Royalties.
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### Author:  [@TGsanders](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/TGsanders)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2026, 12:16pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/required-minimum-royalty-payments/85331/17 "2026-04-01T12:16:25Z")
I’m in the same boat. $12.66 Continental Resources Carter County, Oklahoma.
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### Author:  [@M\_Barnes](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/M_Barnes)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2026, 1:01pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/required-minimum-royalty-payments/85331/18 "2026-04-01T13:01:30Z")
Go back to your lease and see what the timing requirements are on payments. Some will say annually, some will say monthly. When you signed the Division Order, most of them say a minimum of $100. You can change that to $25.
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### Author:  [@A\_Monty](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/A_Monty)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2026, 2:02pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/required-minimum-royalty-payments/85331/19 "2026-04-01T14:02:09Z")
See LanaStraub’s reply above and those from M\_Barnes. You could try sending a written request for any amount over $10 or maybe even any amount even if under $10. Probably should be sent to the company’s Owner Relations Department. Check their website for mailing address. Send the letter certified, return receipt requested, although that may cost more than you get back. You could try emailing the request first. Give them a couple of months to reply. Then try the mail.
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### Author:  [@system](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2026, 4:39pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/required-minimum-royalty-payments/85331/20 "2026-04-05T16:39:47Z")
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