Wondering what you missed on the Mineral Rights podcast in 2020? Here are Matt and Justin’s picks for the most impactful podcast episodes of 2020.
This is the final episode for 2020 for the Mineral Rights Podcast, which is really exciting. I can’t believe 2020 is almost over, and it is probably not soon enough for many. It has no doubt been a challenging year with the coronavirus pandemic, economic collapse, and crude oil futures going negative for the first time ever.
Thankfully, things are looking up for 2021 with the first doses of covid-19 vaccine being distributed and this helping sustain the economic recovery and the recovery in the price of oil and natural gas, and hopefully our royalty checks as well.
Despite these challenges, we’ve had some amazing guests and covered some high-impact topics this year and so we are going to share a few clips from some of our favorite and most useful episodes of this year.
This may be a great reminder for those of you who have listened to them and they may be a teaser for those of you who want to go back and listen to the entire episodes that we’re going to talk about.
If you listen to any episodes from 2020, these are a great place to start. This shortlist of 5 episodes has something for everyone. They cover everything form how large mineral buyers approach mineral rights acquisitions, strategies for leasing or selling your minerals, how to get access to free oil and gas well information, to how oil and gas prices work.
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You’ll Learn
- Our list of most impactful episodes of 2020 (scroll down!)
- The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels and the importance of private property rights (like mineral rights) to human flourishing.
- What goes on behind the scenes at a large mineral company and the criteria they use for underwriting mineral acquisitions.
- How to get well level data across multiple states, including allocated production data for Texas, for FREE for the first time ever.
- The secrets behind the collapse in crude oil prices, how crude oil prices affect oil and gas operators and whether or not they might have to file bankruptcy, and the silver lining to the decrease in oil prices as it relates to the outlook for natural gas in 2021.
- Negative royalties and what to do when your well gets shut-in. You can download the free white paper on Negative Prices & Royalty Calculations that Burns Charest, LLP presented to the State Bar of Texas. They’ve graciously made it available to listeners of the Mineral Rights Podcast to download for free.
Our Most Impactful Podcast Episodes of 2020:
- MRP 73: Alex Epstein and The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels
- MRP 45: Behind the Scenes at a Large Mineral Company with Will Cullen, Vice President of LongPoint Minerals, LLC
- MRP 55: Get Oil and Gas Data For Free with WellDatabase
- MRP 48: The Secrets Behind the Recent Collapse in Crude Oil Price
- MRP 53: Negative Royalties and What to Do When Your Well Gets Shut-in
Resources
- The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels (Penguin, 2014), a New York Times bestseller arguing that if we look at the whole picture, human flourishing requires that humanity use more fossil fuels not less. (WSJ review here.) The book has been widely praised as the most persuasive argument ever made for our continuing use of fossil fuels, winning Epstein the “Most Original Thinker of 2014” award from The McLaughlin Group.
- Alex created the website EnergyTalkingPoints.com to provide true, powerful, and succinct talking points on this year’s most important energy, environmental, and climate issues.
- Click here for our FREE Mineral Rights Valuation Resource Guide.
- Learn what you get with the free WellDatabase Lite Plan. Matt uses WellDatabase in his consulting practice and in all aspects of Silverheels Investments LLC when powerful oil & gas mapping and analytics, data management, and organizing and sharing data is required. Plus, WellDatabase does all of this at a fraction of the cost of their competitors. In 2020, they created a Free Lite plan for users who simply need well level data (great for individual mineral owners who have an interest in only a few wells). If you do decide to sign up for a free or a paid plan, enter “Mineral Rights Podcast” in the “Where did you hear about WellDatabase” section.
- Goldman Sachs equity research analysts led by Brian Singer said “We estimate if our covered producers invest on the basis of $30-$45/bbl WTI over the next five quarters, we will see more than 1 BCF/d net less US gas production”.
- Download the free paper on Negative Prices & Royalty Calculations that Spencer mentions in Episode 53. (This was part of a presentation given to the State Bar of Texas that Burns Charest, LLP has made available for you to download here)
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