NOTE 4 - STOCK BASED COMPENSATION	9 Months Ended
NOTE 4 - STOCK BASED COMPENSATION	Sep. 30, 2013
Disclosure of Compensation Related Costs, Share-based Payments [Abstract]
Disclosure of Compensation Related Costs, Share-based Payments [Text Block]	NOTE 4 – STOCK BASED COMPENSATION During the Board of Directors meeting held in December 2010, directors and officers of Royale Energy were each granted 50,000 stock options, a total of 400,000 options, to purchase common stock at an exercise price of $3.25 per share. These options are to vest in two parts; the first 200,000 options vested on January 1, 2011; the remaining 200,000 options vested on January 1, 2012. The options were granted with a legal life of five years, and a service period of two years beginning on January 1, 2011. During the first nine months of 2012 Royale recognized costs of $19,630 relating to this grant as well as $5,696 in a tax benefit relating to this grant. No stock-based compensation was recognized during the first nine months of 2013.

The entire disclosure for compensation-related costs for equity-based compensation, which may include disclosure of policies, compensation plan details, allocation of equity compensation, incentive distributions, equity-based arrangements to obtain goods and services, deferred compensation arrangements, employee stock ownership plan details and employee stock purchase plan details.

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