Sell Mineral Rights in Kansas

The Hugoton Field in southwest Kansas has been producing natural gas since the 1920s and is still one of the largest gas fields ever discovered in North America, and we buy royalty interests tied to it every month.

Kansas gives us two very different kinds of interests. Down in Stevens, Grant, and Finney counties, Hugoton Field production is old, stable, and enormous in cumulative scope even if individual well rates are modest now. Up in south-central Kansas, Barber, Harper, and Comanche counties, the Mississippian Lime play brought a wave of horizontal drilling activity roughly a decade ago that's since settled into a more mature production pattern.

We buy interests across both areas, along with plenty of small legacy interests scattered across the rest of the state from Kansas's long oil and gas history.

Hugoton Field: Long-Lived Gas Production You Can Actually Count On

Hugoton has been producing continuously for roughly a century, which is almost unheard of. That longevity means we usually have deep production history to price against when we buy a Hugoton royalty interest, decades of consistent, if gradually declining, gas volumes. Register of deeds records in Stevens, Grant, and Finney counties tend to be well organized given how long operators have been filing there.

Because the field is so mature, individual well rates are modest by modern standards, but the reliability of that production is exactly what makes these interests attractive to us as a buyer. We're not speculating on a new well's future decline, we're pricing off a nearly hundred-year track record.

Mississippian Lime Interests Are a Newer, Noisier Story

The Mississippian Lime play saw a real drilling surge roughly ten to fifteen years ago across Barber, Harper, Comanche, and neighboring counties, then activity cooled considerably as operators shifted capital elsewhere. That means some Mississippian Lime wells have longer, steadier decline histories now, which actually makes them easier to price accurately than they were during the boom years when everything was new and volatile.

If your royalty comes from this area, we're looking at where the well sits on its decline curve today, not what it was doing at peak. A well that's five or six years past its initial spike isn't a bad interest, it's just a mature one, and we price it as such.

How We Handle Kansas Register of Deeds Research

Kansas uses a county register of deeds to record mineral conveyances, leases, and assignments. For Hugoton-area tracts specifically, we're often confirming a long chain of assignments as operators have consolidated over the decades, since the field has changed hands among several major operators since it was first developed. Mississippian Lime tracts tend to have shorter, more recent chains given the play's newer vintage.

We complete that research before quoting you a number, and if title comes back with a gap, an unrecorded heirship affidavit is the most common one we see in Kansas, we tell you what it is and how we'll clear it before closing.