Royalty Owners

A Royalty Owner, including Overriding Royalty and Working Interest Owners for purposes herein, is an individual, business or government entity who has an interest in one or more of CRC’s producing wells. This includes Tidelands and Long Beach Unit owners.

A Division Order verifies your ownership interest in the listed property. It also obtains an acknowledgement from you that you are the interest owner of the listed property and agree with the information presented on the Division Order. Please review the Division Order, sign it, and mail it back to CRC in the pre-paid envelope provided. For further assistance, please contact the CRC hotline, 1-855-272-5519.

Please contact the CRC hotline, 1-855-272-5519.

A Transfer Order identifies and acknowledges a transfer of ownership interest in the listed property. Please review the Transfer Order, sign it, and mail it back to CRC in the pre-paid envelope provided. For further assistance, please contact the CRC hotline, 1-855-272-5519.

Payments are mailed/deposited on the 25th of each month, or the next business day if the 25th falls on a weekend or holiday. If you have not received your payment by the tenth business day from the date the payments were mailed/deposited, please contact the CRC hotline, 1-855-272-5519.

Please be advised that banks will not deposit checks past the stale date (90 days from the date of your check). If after 90 days you have not deposited your check, please return the check to CRC and we will void it and reissue a new check to you.

To report a lost, stolen or stale dated check, please contact the CRC hotline, 1-855-272-5519.

It is CRC’s policy to issue a payment once an account has accumulated $100.00 of production proceeds by CRC Company Number. If an account balance is less than $100.00, a payment will be issued when the account balance reaches $100.00, except for Long Beach Unit and Tidelands Unit Working Interest Owners where the minimum threshold is $25.00. Payments to Net Profit Interest Owners do not have a minimum threshold.

Please contact the CRC hotline, 1-855-272-5519. A CRC representative will need to verify the account information with you before we can provide this information.

If you are a Working Interest Owner, then this usually means that the expenses of operating the well and the taxes associated with the well have exceeded the revenue being produced from the well. If you are a Royalty Interest Owner or an Overriding Royalty Interest (ORRI) Owner, then this usually means that taxes were applied to your owner account, (e.g., Ad Valorem Tax), and the taxes were more than the revenue. Example – CRC applies Ad Valorem Taxes to Owner Accounts twice a year, so six months of Ad Valorem Taxes will appear with one month of revenue.

This information can be accessed via www.energylink.com. Should you need information pertaining to your Working Interest Expense Report (for Working Interest Owners), please contact CRC at 1-855-272-5519 or [email protected].

Please contact the CRC hotline, 1-855-272-5519, to start the process of claiming the funds in danger of being escheated.

Please refer to CRC’s Transfer Instructions and Requirements document. CRC makes interest payments to the owners of the real property. In order to release any funds to you, you will need to provide CRC with the appropriate transfer of ownership documentation. Contact the CRC hotline, 1-855-272-5519. Once you have provided the appropriate transfer of ownership documents, CRC will transfer the ownership interest to your account and release the funds to you.

Please contact the CRC hotline, 1-855-272-5519 and check to see if your owner account has been placed in suspense for an unknown address or returned check. If so, CRC will send you a Change of Address Form. Once you completely fill out this form and send it back to CRC, we can update your address in our system and place your owner account back in PAY. If your owner account is not in suspense, then we will need to research your owner account to determine if any additional documentation will be required.

Please respond to CRC by following the instructions on the B-Notice you received.

*Please respond to CRC by following the instructions on the B-Notice you received. 

For funds that are in suspense due to transfer (SUSP/TF), please provide the appropriate transfer documents as listed on CRC’s Transfer Instructions and Requirements document, found in the Forms and Documents section of this website, and contact the CRC hotline, 1-855-272-5519 regarding any necessary forms to be completed. 

For funds that are in suspense due to unknown address (SUSP/AU), please submit a completed Change of Address form, found in the Form and Documents section of this website, to [email protected], via fax at 866-802-0704, or via mail to: 

California Resources Corporation 
Attn: Land Administration 
9600 Ming Avenue 
Bakersfield, CA 93311 

For funds in suspense due to a returned check (SUSP/CR), please provide a completed Change of Address form, found in the Form and Documents section of this website. 

For funds in unknown suspense (SUSP/UN), please provide the appropriate transfer documents as listed on CRC’s Transfer Instructions and Requirements document, found in the Forms and Documents section of this website, to verify ownership and contact the CRC hotline, 1-855-272-5519 regarding any necessary forms to be completed. *Note – Funds in suspense due to transfer, title requirement or unknown suspense will be asked to provide a signed Indemnity Agreement. 

For funds in suspense due to death (SUSP/DD), please provide the appropriate transfer documents as listed on CRC’s Transfer Instructions and Requirements document, found in the Forms and Documents section of this website, and contact the CRC hotline, 1-855-272-5519 regarding any necessary forms to be completed.

(Owner’s Acreage/Total Acreage) x (Owner’s Interest in Owner’s Acreage) x (Royalty Interest) = Owner’s NRI 

For Example: If a well is producing from 80 acres, your Lease covers 40 of those acres, you own 50% of the mineral rights on those 40 acres, and the royalty interest negotiated in your Oil, Gas and Mineral Lease is a 1/8 royalty interest, then your NRI calculation will look like the following: 

(40 acres/80 acres) x (50%) x (1/8) = 0.03125000