How to look up your lease on the Texas RRC website

1. Get the lease ID

The RRC identification number is a five-digit number for oil leases or a six-digit number for gas wells. It must be posted at the lease entrance and is usually on your royalty check stub, though the stub number may differ (RRC Royalties FAQ). Under Texas Natural Resources Code §91.504 you can ask your payor for it.

2. No lease ID? Use the map

Open the RRC GIS viewer, go to your county, search by lease, survey or block and section, and click the well to reach its production link. If you have the API number, the RRC Wellbore Query lists every lease ID assigned to the wellbore (Mineral Rights Forum walkthrough).

3. Run the Production Data Query

Open the Production Data Query, choose Specific Lease Query, and enter the district and lease number. Production is available online from January 1993, free (RRC).

4. Or use Extrxct

Leases with meaningful production have their own page here with a 36-month chart; start from your county or the operator's page.

Gotchas

• Once a lease has two or more wells, RRC reports production for the lease, not each well.
• If a well is reclassified from oil to gas, it gets a new lease number.
• The latest two months are often revised as late reports arrive.