Sell Mineral Rights in Winkler County, TX/NM

Winkler County has been producing oil since 1926, and between the Hendrick Field's long secondary-recovery life and newer horizontal drilling to the south, few counties in the Permian carry more layered mineral history per square mile.

Kermit is the county seat, and Wink sits close enough that the two towns share a lot of the same oilfield story. Hendrick Field, discovered in 1926, was for a long time one of the largest oil fields in the Permian Basin, and it's still producing today through decades of waterflood and enhanced recovery on wells that were drilled when your great-grandparents were young.

Winkler County is also home to two well-documented sinkholes near Wink, formed by decades of old wellbore casing failures interacting with the Salado salt formation below — a real geological fact locally, and something owners sometimes ask about, though it has no bearing on mineral ownership or value elsewhere in the county. What matters more for most owners here is whether their acreage sits in the mature Hendrick Field footprint or in the newer horizontal Delaware Basin acreage further south.

Newer Delaware Basin horizontal development to the south

South of the historic field, Winkler County acreage overlaps with the newer horizontal Wolfcamp development that's built out heavily in neighboring Ward and Loving counties. Operators have extended horizontal units into southern Winkler County acreage over the past several years, and that acreage behaves very differently than the mature Hendrick Field ground — higher initial production, steeper decline curves, and generally stronger current interest from buyers.

Knowing which part of the county your tract falls in changes the valuation conversation substantially, which is why we check current permits and unit activity on your specific section before quoting anything.

Hendrick Field and nearly a century of continuous production

Hendrick Field has been under some form of active operation almost continuously since the 1920s, moving from primary production through waterflood and other secondary recovery methods over the decades. That kind of longevity means leases here have been held by production for generations, and mineral ownership has often passed through several rounds of inheritance without ever lapsing.

Checks from Hendrick Field acreage today tend to be modest and steady, reflecting mature secondary-recovery production rather than a new well's initial output. For owners with small fractional interests here, that steady but limited monthly income is often the whole reason to consider a sale — converting decades of small checks into one number now.

Title through generations in Kermit

The Winkler County clerk's office in Kermit holds records reflecting a century of nearly continuous oil activity, which means deep documentation but also, for many family tracts, deep complexity — interests split among heirs across four or five generations, old assignments between long-since-merged companies, and the occasional gap that takes courthouse work to fill.

None of that should discourage you from finding out what your interest is worth. Bring whatever paperwork you have, and we'll do the work to confirm the chain of title before closing.

The Wink sinkholes, and why they don't change your mineral value

The two sinkholes near Wink are a real, documented local phenomenon tied to old, deteriorated wellbore casings interacting with the underlying salt formation, and they've drawn genuine geological study over the years. They're isolated to specific tracts near those old wellbores, not a county-wide issue, and they don't affect mineral ownership, title, or the value of interests elsewhere in Winkler County.

If you've heard about the sinkholes and wondered whether they say something about the safety or value of your own interest, the honest answer is almost certainly no unless your specific tract sits on one of the affected sites.