Sell Your Oil & Gas Mineral Rights

It depends on your goals and risk tolerance. Keeping minerals preserves potential upside if new wells are drilled, but also exposes you to commodity-price risk, depleting production, and the administrative work of division orders, 1099s, and ad valorem taxes. Selling converts an uncertain future income stream into immediate cash that you can reinvest or diversify. We encourage sellers to weigh both paths with a financial advisor — we never pressure anyone to sell.

There is no universal formula — the value of mineral rights depends on the future production your interest is expected to generate. Key factors include basin, formation, whether the tract has producing wells, current lease terms and royalty rates, active drilling permits, operator activity, and commodity prices. Two adjacent tracts in the same county can have very different values. The fastest way to know what your specific property is worth is to request a free, written offer based on your actual property data.

A mineral interest is a full ownership stake in the minerals beneath a tract — the owner can lease the property, collect bonus and delay rentals, and receive royalties on any production. A royalty interest is narrower: just the right to a share of production revenue, with no right to lease or develop. Most of our sellers own mineral interests, but we also buy standalone royalty interests, NPRIs, and ORRIs.

Most transactions close within 7 to 21 days of signing a purchase agreement. In straightforward cases with clean title, we have closed in as few as 7 days. Complex title situations may take longer, but we keep you informed throughout.