Mineral & Royalty Management

Mineral and royalty interests represent valuable assets that require ongoing oversight to ensure proper revenue collection, lease negotiation and compliance, and protection of ownership rights. Managing these holdings effectively means tracking production across multiple wells and operators, verifying payment accuracy, maintaining lease records, and monitoring regulatory obligations that vary by jurisdiction. Without detailed management, owners risk underpayment, missed lease renewals, or unexercised rights through administrative oversight.

Peoples Company’s mineral management service provides comprehensive oversight of your oil and gas assets—from division order reviews through ongoing lease monitoring and negotiation. We coordinate directly with operators, process documentation, track lease compliance, and deliver transparent reporting that gives you complete visibility into asset performance and revenue streams.

Partnership with Valor

Peoples Company structures energy management services through an established partnership with Valor, a Fort Worth-based firm that delivers enterprise-grade management infrastructure accessible to individual owners. Valor's team utilizes the mineral.tech® software system that was purpose-built for energy management administration, integrating accounting, analytics, and reporting into one platform. Valor's mineral.tech® system provides detailed production tracking, automated revenue reconciliation, digital document management, and customized reporting that gives you complete visibility into asset performance.

This collaboration with Valor allows us to provide sophisticated mineral administration without requiring clients to pay for two separate service providers. Valor’s accounting and administration team supports Peoples Company as the back-office support for energy management services, handling all mineral accounting operations and administrative functions.

Energy Asset Disposition & Valuation

Selling mineral interests or renewable leases requires specialized marketing strategies and valuation expertise. Energy asset buyers—ranging from institutional funds to regional operators—each employ distinct underwriting processes and return requirements. Peoples Company provides comprehensive disposition services that combine thorough asset valuation, strategic marketing execution, and competitive sale processes designed to maximize realized value.

Our in-house marketing team develops targeted campaigns that highlight asset value through clear data presentation, production mapping, and cash flow summaries. These materials are distributed through industry-specific platforms with our partners, curated buyer lists, and digital channels that reach qualified purchasers actively seeking energy assets.

Structured Auctions with Mid-Continent Energy Exchange

For clients monetizing oil and gas interests, we partner with Mid-Continent Energy Exchange to execute structured auction sales that create competitive bidding environments. This Wichita-based firm specializes in energy asset auctions and provides the platform infrastructure to reach qualified buyers across institutional, private equity, and individual operator segments.

The auction format exposes your assets to the entire buyer universe simultaneously rather than sequential negotiations, creating competitive tension that consistently produces superior pricing. Our team handles complete pre-sale preparation—production analysis, title review, lease documentation, and financial modeling—ensuring buyers receive the information required for rapid underwriting. Our marketing team then develops targeted campaigns distributed through industry platforms and curated buyer networks, emphasizing data-driven asset presentation that attracts serious purchasers with committed capital.

Renewable Energy Assets

Solar leases and wind agreements introduce revenue streams that behave fundamentally differently than traditional agricultural income. These contracts extend 20 to 40 years, include complex decommissioning provisions, and tie payments to developer financial stability, project completion risk, and evolving regulatory incentives. Managing these assets requires evaluating variables that fall outside conventional farmland expertise.

Partnership with Farm First Energy

We collaborate with Farm First Energy to evaluate renewable opportunities and negotiate lease terms that protect landowner interests while facilitating economically viable projects. Their platform connects landowners with vetted developers who have demonstrated track records of project completion, appropriate capitalization, and responsible site management.

This partnership provides Peoples Company land management clients with access to market intelligence on current lease rates, developer reputations, and regional project activity that individual landowners cannot efficiently gather. When renewable opportunities emerge in the area of your land assets, we ensure you understand true market value, realistic project timelines, and the contractual provisions that matter—decommissioning bonds, CPI escalation clauses, early termination rights, and restrictions on future land use.

Valuation & Appraisals Through Lease Gen

Determining the present value of multi-decade renewable contracts involves more than applying discount rates to projected payments. Project completion risk, developer creditworthiness, regional capacity constraints, and regulatory incentive structures all materially impact what a renewable lease is actually worth today.

Peoples Company works with Lease Gen for specialized renewable asset valuations and certified appraisals. Their team brings decades of renewable energy experience to valuation assignments, employing analytical frameworks that account for project age, developer track record, regional cap rates, and market-specific factors that generic appraisal methods miss. Whether the valuation is for estate planning purposes, partnership transitions, or disposition decisions, these assessments provide defensible figures determined by actual market conditions.

Judy Smith