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Mesa Royalty Trust is a passive trust, not an oil and gas operator. It owns rights to income from specified producing properties in Kansas’s Hugoton field and the San Juan Basin in New Mexico and Colorado, rather than owning the properties themselves.
Independent property owners produce and sell the oil and gas, deduct production and capital costs, and pay the trust a share of the remaining proceeds. The trust distributes cash to unitholders after its expenses and reserve adjustments. If a property’s costs exceed sales receipts, the owners recover the shortfall plus interest from future proceeds before royalty payments resume.
Natural gas dominates production, so receipts depend heavily on gas prices, volumes sold and property costs. Royalty income is heavily concentrated in the New Mexico properties operated by Hilcorp. The trust cannot direct operations, development or marketing, and relies on the owners’ records to determine payments. Its governing terms also prohibit other business or investment activities and asset purchases.
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Mesa Royalty Trust’s distributions depend on natural gas prices, production costs and costs carried forward, making privately held Hilcorp’s San Juan Basin–New Mexico properties the ones to watch: they supplied all of Mesa’s 2025 royalty income.
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