Type the company name printed on your royalty check stub and find the operator behind it — their well footprint, where they're active, and what the interest that check pays on could be worth in a free written offer.
A royalty check is proof of a producing, sellable interest. The payor name is the fastest way to identify what you own. Buckhead Energy is a direct buyer — we make written offers to buy, we don't sell appraisal or brokerage services. Educational lookup; not legal or financial advice.
The 20 companies operating the most U.S. wells as of 2026-07-05 — if your checks come from one of these, we buy interests under every one of them. Full leaderboard: top operators in the US.
Chevron (75,572 wells) · Occidental Petroleum (Oxy) (61,775 wells) · Diversified Production LLC (60,757 wells) · Aera Energy (57,803 wells) · Hilcorp Energy Company (51,256 wells) · Exxonmobil (39,141 wells) · Eog Resources (38,356 wells) · California Resources Corporation (Crc) (22,929 wells) · Scout Energy Management (21,807 wells) · Pioneer Natural Resources (20,427 wells) · Devon Energy (20,321 wells) · Diamondback Energy (17,402 wells) · Apache (17,038 wells) · Marathon Oil Company (16,379 wells) · Mach Resources (15,542 wells) · Conocophillips Company (15,399 wells) · Citation Oil & Gas (15,386 wells) · Noble Energy (15,146 wells) · Bpx Operating Company (12,711 wells) · Merit Energy Company (12,173 wells)
That stub plus your division order is usually everything we need to price your interest. Free written offer, no obligation, closings in 30–45 days.
Get a Free Written OfferThe company named on your check stub is usually the well operator — the company running the wells your interest participates in — or occasionally its payment agent or the first purchaser of the production. Search that exact name above to find the operator's profile and well footprint.
Yes. A royalty check is proof of a producing, sellable interest. Buckhead Energy buys producing mineral and royalty interests under every major operator in 33 states — each result links straight to a written-offer page for owners paid by that company. Offers are free and carry no obligation.
Wells change hands. When an operator sells a field or merges, the new operator takes over disbursement and you receive a new division order. Your interest itself is unchanged — only the payor is different. Both the old and new names should appear in the registry.
The registry covers thousands of active U.S. operators, but some checks come from purchasers, remitters, or small private operators filed under a different legal name. Try a shorter piece of the name (one word works), or send us the stub — we identify payors for owners every week as part of preparing free offers.