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Serving mineral owners across Texas and southeast New Mexico

Know your rights before the next signature.

NARO Texas helps owners understand what they own, prepare for lease and payment decisions, and bring real mineral-owner experience to Austin.

NARO Texas members visiting the Texas Capitol during a mineral-owner advocacy event
Learn Understand what you own Trace the county records, inheritance documents, legal description, operator, and decimal. Attend Learn with mineral owners Learn with owners from the Permian, East Texas, and every producing region. Connect Meet your chapter Meet leaders who turn Texas owner experience into education and advocacy.

Better records. Better questions. A stronger owner voice.

Texas is too large for a single typical lease, offer, or royalty answer. The chapter helps owners connect the local record and document with statewide education and representation.

Start with the Mineral Owner FAQ

These are recurring owner questions, not individualized legal, title, tax, accounting, investment, or valuation advice.

County records and inherited title

Use deed, probate, affidavit, lease, and legal-description records to establish the ownership trail before the next transaction.

Leases, Division Orders, and sales

Look beyond the bonus or headline offer to royalty language, deductions, extensions, surface terms, decimals, and long-term effect.

Wells, production, and payments

Railroad Commission data can show activity and production; county records and operator files answer different ownership and payment questions.

Mineral owners belong in the room where the rules are written.

Texas law affects when owners are paid, what information they can request, how suspended proceeds are handled, and how private property rights are protected. NARO Texas brings real owner experience to the Capitol.

See how NARO protects mineral owners

Payment transparency

Owners need understandable statements, timely information, and a clear explanation when proceeds are suspended.

Property and contract rights

Policy should recognize the people and families whose minerals make development possible.

Minerals beyond oil and gas

Lithium, salt, brine, and other mineral proceeds raise owner questions that deserve a voice in public policy.

Upcoming events and local leadership

The listings below come directly from Wild Apricot so chapter staff can keep dates and board information current in one place.

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Board Members

Meet the volunteers who serve mineral and royalty owners across Texas.