Sell Mineral Rights in Loving County, TX/NM

Loving County is the least populated county in the United States and one of the most heavily drilled square miles in the entire Permian Basin, which makes it a strange place to own minerals.

We've worked acreage all over the Delaware Basin and Loving County still stands out. There are more producing wellbores here than there are people, and most owners with an interest in this county don't live anywhere near Mentone, the county seat. A lot of these tracts trace back to ranching families who never expected the ground under their cattle to sit over some of the most active Wolfcamp and Bone Spring horizontal development in Texas.

Because so few people actually live on the surface here, mineral records can be thin on local knowledge, courthouse staff turnover is high, and title work sometimes takes patience. That's exactly the kind of situation we're set up to handle without slowing you down more than necessary.

Core Delaware Basin geology, no shelf to hide behind

Unlike a county like Lea or Eddy where you're dealing with a shelf side and a basin side, Loving County sits almost entirely in the deep, core Delaware Basin. That means stacked Wolfcamp and Bone Spring benches, thick Delaware sand intervals, and operators running multi-well pads that can hold six, eight, or more laterals under a single surface location. Well density here is about as high as anywhere in the Permian.

For an owner, that generally means more wells touching your acreage over time, which can mean more royalty checks, but it also means more spacing unit paperwork, more pooling orders, and more division order amendments to track. We check every unit your interest could be tied to rather than only the well you're currently getting paid on.

Why offers here move fast

With this much active permitting and drilling concentrated in one county, operators are often working several sections at once, and new permits can shift the value of a tract quickly. If we see a permit filed on an offset unit to your acreage, that changes our number, sometimes within weeks of the filing showing up.

That cuts both ways for a seller. If you're hoping a new well gets drilled near your tract before you sell, that can raise the price. If you'd rather lock in value now rather than wait through years of drilling and decline, that's a reasonable call too, and it's yours to make. We'll tell you honestly what nearby permitting suggests either way.

Out-of-state and multi-generation ownership

Given how few people actually live in Loving County, most of the mineral owners we talk to here are elsewhere, often several states away, holding an interest that came down through a ranching family or an old land trade. We handle closing entirely by mail and wire, you don't need to be anywhere near Mentone to sell.

If your interest was split among siblings or cousins decades ago and nobody's kept it organized since, we're used to piecing that together from the county clerk's real property records and Railroad Commission unit filings.