Sell Mineral Rights in Midland County, TX/NM

Midland County is where most of the companies drilling the rest of the basin keep their offices, and that changes how mineral interests here get bought and sold.

We spent a good stretch of our career in Midland, and if you own minerals in this county you're sitting under one of the most studied pieces of rock in American oil and gas history. The Spraberry Trend was discovered here in 1949 and turned out to be one of the largest oil fields by surface area in the country, and decades later the same acreage got a second life once operators figured out how to landing horizontal wells in the Wolfcamp benches underneath it.

That long history is exactly why Midland County mineral ownership gets complicated. You might have an interest tracing back to a 1950s vertical lease that's been assigned, re-assigned, and split among heirs three or four times since, sitting under a section that now has modern horizontal wells stacked on top of the old vertical bores. We sort out which production you're actually entitled to before we quote anything.

Stacked pay changes how your interest should be valued

Midland County acreage typically has several productive intervals stacked on top of each other, the Spraberry itself along with the Wolfcamp A, B, and lower benches, sometimes the Dean and Jo Mill zones too. A tract that looks unremarkable based on one old vertical well might have three or four modern horizontal wells targeting different depths beneath it, each with its own spacing unit and division order.

This is where a lot of owners get shortchanged by buyers who price off a single well rather than checking every zone. We pull the full wellbore history against your tract across all producing intervals rather than whichever single well happens to be paying you right now.

Being close to headquarters cuts both ways

Because so many operators are headquartered in Midland, permitting and development activity here tends to be well documented and fast-moving, which is good for owners wanting current information about their acreage. It also means Midland County land and mineral prices get more attention and more competing buyers than a lot of surrounding counties.

That's a point in your favor as a seller, but it also means it pays to get more than one number before deciding. We'll show you our reasoning, based on your specific production history and nearby permits, so you can judge our offer against anything else you've received.

Urban growth and mineral estates

Midland itself has grown enough that some mineral tracts in the county now sit under developed residential or commercial surface. That doesn't change your mineral ownership, Texas law keeps the mineral and surface estates separate, but it can affect access for future drilling on some of the more built-up sections near town.

If your family's minerals came down through a ranching or farming operation that predates the city's growth, we're used to reconstructing that history from courthouse deed records even when the current surface bears no resemblance to what it looked like when the mineral reservation was first made.