# Mineral rights management software that reconciles every royalty check to the decimal you actually own

> Mineral rights management is the work of tracking ownership in the subsurface estate, the leases that burden it and the revenue it produces, tract by tract and check by check. The Bureau of Land Management alone administers 700,000,000 acres of subsurface mineral estate over 245,000,000 acres of surface, and the Office of Natural Resources Revenue disbursed $16.45 billion in fiscal year 2024. Neurobird holds the tract, the decimal interest, the division order and the check detail together.

- URL: https://neurobird.com/mineralrights/
- Product: Neurobird Mineral Rights Management Compliance Platform
- Niche: mineral rights management
- Buyer: mineral owners, trusts and land administrators
- Status: in development, open for early access
- Updated: 2026-08-21

## What Neurobird Mineral Rights Management does

- Record ownership per tract: legal description, net mineral acres, interest type and the instruments behind it
- Post operator check detail against the tract and the well so gaps and changes surface
- Track lease primary terms, shut in deadlines and division order responses as dated actions
- Produce the volumes and dollars your accountant needs without rebuilding the year

## How it works

1. **Record the ownership once** Legal description, net mineral acres, royalty or working interest and the instruments that created them, per tract, per county.
2. **Load the check detail** Operator revenue statements post against the tract and the well, so a missing month or a quietly changed decimal becomes visible.
3. **Watch the dates** Primary terms, shut in payments, pooling elections and division order responses each carry a date somebody has to act on before it passes.

## From the source material

> Since 1982, the Department has disbursed over $387 billion in mineral leasing revenues.

Source: ONRR, fiscal year 2024 disbursement release, https://www.onrr.gov/press-releases/FY%202024%20ONRR%20Disbursement%20Press%20Release.pdf

## Industry context

- **700,000,000** Acres of subsurface mineral estate administered by the Bureau of Land Management, more than any other agency, against 245,000,000 acres of surface land. (source: Bureau of Land Management, what we manage, https://www.blm.gov/about/what-we-manage/national)
- **$16.45 billion** Total disbursed by the Office of Natural Resources Revenue in fiscal year 2024 from production on federal and tribal lands and offshore, including $4.29 billion to 33 states. (source: ONRR, fiscal year 2024 disbursement release, https://www.onrr.gov/press-releases/FY%202024%20ONRR%20Disbursement%20Press%20Release.pdf)
- **16.67%** The federal onshore royalty rate set by statute in 2022, up from the 12.5% that had stood since 1920, which changes the arithmetic on every new federal lease. (source: Bureau of Land Management, oil and gas leasing, https://www.blm.gov/programs/energy-and-minerals/oil-and-gas/leasing)
- **613A** Percentage depletion for oil and gas is limited and phased by section 613A, so a royalty owner's tax position depends on production volumes as well as on dollars received. (source: Cornell Law School, 26 U.S. Code 613A, https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/613A)
- **$402 billion** Mineral leasing revenue disbursed by the Department of the Interior since 1982, a scale that explains why division orders and decimal interests are audited rather than assumed. (source: ONRR, statistics, https://www.onrr.gov/about/statistics)

## Pricing

- Family owner: $45 per month, up to 100 tracts
- Estate or trust: $140 per month, up to 1,000 tracts
- Institutional owner: $320 per month, unlimited tracts

## Questions

### What is mineral rights management?

Mineral rights management is the work of tracking ownership in the subsurface estate, the leases that burden it and the revenue it produces, tract by tract and check by check. It matters because mineral ownership is severed from the surface, fragments through inheritance, and pays through documents written by whoever is operating the well.

### What is a division order?

A statement from the operator setting out the decimal interest it intends to pay you on a particular well. Signing it does not amend your lease, but it does confirm the number the operator will use, which is why the decimal has to be checked against your net mineral acres and the unit size before it is signed.

### Why do royalty checks change without warning?

New wells enter a unit, a unit is redefined, an operator changes, a well is shut in, deductions for gathering and processing shift, or a title issue puts you in suspense. Any of those changes the number, and almost none of them arrive with an explanation.

### How do I know my decimal interest is correct?

You calculate it: net mineral acres divided by unit acres, multiplied by your royalty rate, adjusted for any depth or lease burdens. If your own arithmetic and the division order disagree, one of them is wrong and it is worth finding out which before 3 years of production go by.

### Does this file my taxes?

No. It produces the tract level volumes, revenue and deduction detail your accountant needs, including what is required to work out depletion. The return itself stays with your preparer.

## Sources

- [Bureau of Land Management, what we manage](https://www.blm.gov/about/what-we-manage/national)
- [Bureau of Land Management, oil and gas leasing](https://www.blm.gov/programs/energy-and-minerals/oil-and-gas/leasing)
- [ONRR, statistics](https://www.onrr.gov/about/statistics)
- [Cornell Law School, 26 U.S. Code 613A](https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/613A)

## Contact

- office@neurobird.com
- https://neurobird.com/