Minerals

From Donations to Dividends: 5 Ways Charities, Government Entities and Endowments Can Maximize Returns From Effective Mineral Management

byPhillip Dunning

Effective mineral management is the cornerstone of maximizing returns from your mineral assets. With the right tools and strategies, you can unlock hidden revenue, streamline your operations and gain a comprehensive understanding of your asset portfolio. Enverus offers powerful solutions to transform how you manage your minerals, providing insights that drive financial growth and stability. This blog will walk you through five key ways to optimize your mineral management practices, ensuring you capture every opportunity for enhanced returns.

1. Quick and easy reporting:

Proper reporting helps you quickly filter and analyze where missed payments are located. Enverus allows you to run reports of payments by properties in just two clicks. This helps in quickly filtering and analyzing where missed payments are located, giving you a clear overview of your income streams.

2. Context for missed payments:

Understanding why a payment is missing is crucial. Missed payments can occur for several reasons:

  • A well is in suspense: The well has been moved from in pay to suspense for some reason.
  • Nearby activity: To protect the well you are in pay on, if a nearby well is being drilled or fracked, your well might be shut in.
  • Not producing: Quickly see if a well has been reporting production or has moved to an inactive status.

By having context around why a missed payment might have occurred, you can quickly reach out to the operator with your questions and contextual information.

3. Forecasting income:

Estimating future income can be challenging because minerals are living and breathing with wells coming online and being plugged. Getting forecasted production from a reliable source will provide guidance on what your wells will be producing individually or as a portfolio to forecast estimated income and value for proper financial planning and reporting. For years, Enverus has provided reliable forecasted production data that automatically updates your forecasts and estimations as new information arises. These estimations can also be used for those divesting or reporting value. While the reporting does not qualify as a certified engineering report, for many it fits the bill of providing a base number of estimated producing value.

4. Asset identification:

Knowing what you own is fundamental. For many firms, even knowing what you receive payments on is elusive. Enverus automatically matches your properties to API10s (unique identifiers) so that you can see your properties on a map or even download a copy of your inventory and decimal ownership. For those looking to divest, having this information on hand allows you to provide the buyer instant information to value the asset. Owners with the most complete information receive higher valuations than those in disarray.

5. Monitoring nearby activity:

Keeping track of what’s happening around your assets is essential for financial planning. The two ways that a mineral portfolio increases in value are by new activity or commodity price fluctuations. The assets are inherently declining, and if you are not tracking what is occurring around what you own, it is difficult to plan around influxes of income. Enverus utilizes proprietary GPS-enabled rig tracking to provide near-real-time updates to nearby rigs and permits. Users can also add minerals or land not receiving royalties to see if there are any wells in pay they are unaware of or to track activity occurring around. This helps you plan around potential income fluctuations due to new activity or commodity price changes.

The Real-World Impact

Effective mineral management is more than just a task; it’s a strategic advantage that can drive significant financial outcomes. Active mineral management can transform how charities, government entities and endowments operate. Charities can leverage additional revenue streams to support their missions, stabilizing finances and expanding their impact. Government entities can maximize asset values, funding public services and community projects. Endowments can diversify portfolios and boost returns, supporting scholarships, research and institutional growth.

Real-world examples abound of organizations optimizing revenue and ensuring financial sustainability through effective mineral management practices. These success stories underscore the importance of proactive strategies and the right tools to achieve optimal results.

“MineralSoft® has empowered us to shift our focus significantly towards our core mission of grant giving, reducing the amount of time we previously invested in administrative and accounting tasks related to our oil and gas assets.”

Roy Geer, Controller

Learn more about how Mabee Foundations fulfilled their grant giving mission with greater operational and cost efficiency using leading mineral management technology to manage cash flow for capital grants. 

By leveraging tools and insights from Enverus, you can ensure that your mineral assets are working at their fullest potential. Take control of your mineral assets today and unlock a new level of financial performance and sustainability.

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Phillip Dunning

Phillip currently serves as director of product management for Minerals at Enverus. Prior to joining Enverus in early 2016, Phillip worked as an A&D engineer in the Appalachian Basin and later as a managing director at an upstream private equity firm focusing on equity investments in unconventional plays and royalty/mineral acquisitions. Phillip has advised companies on deploying capital, raising money and acquisitions/divestitures, and has helped start numerous oil and gas companies since 2013. While at Enverus, he has served in various roles, most recently as principal of corporate strategy. Phillip served for 10 years as an engineering officer in the U.S. Army, retiring in 2021. Phillip holds a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from Ohio State University and a Master of Engineering from the University of Louisiana.

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