Sell Mineral Rights in Michigan

Here's our process for a Michigan mineral purchase, start to finish: you send your division order, we pull title through the county register of deeds, we quote you, and we close.

Michigan's Antrim Shale play, centered on counties like Otsego and Antrim in the northern Lower Peninsula around Gaylord and Kalkaska, was developed heavily through the 1990s and early 2000s as a shallow, low-cost gas play. It's mature now, most wells were drilled twenty-five to thirty years ago and have settled into steady, low-volume production.

We buy Antrim royalty interests along with legacy oil interests scattered elsewhere across the state's long production history. Walk through our process below and you'll see there's nothing complicated about it.

Send Us Your Documentation First

A recent royalty check stub or division order is the fastest starting point. It tells us the operator, which helps us place your interest within the Antrim play and get a rough sense of production trend before we've even pulled full title. If you've inherited the interest and only have an old lease or a probate document, that works too, just send what you have.

Antrim wells were drilled in a concentrated window decades ago, so a lot of the interests we see share similar production characteristics, shallow, low-cost gas that declines slowly and steadily rather than dropping off sharply. Knowing your operator name lets us compare your interest against others we've researched in the same field area.

We Pull Title Through the County Register of Deeds

Michigan records mineral conveyances at the county register of deeds office, and for Antrim-area counties, that research is usually manageable since most of the leasing and drilling activity happened in a fairly compressed period during the play's development. We're checking for the original lease, any assignments as operators changed over the years, and whether the interest has been split among heirs since the original owner.

If we find a gap, most commonly an heir who never recorded their share formally, we tell you and walk you through what's needed to clear it. It's rarely a dealbreaker, just a step that needs handling before closing.

What Mature Antrim Production Is Worth Today

Because Antrim wells are decades into their production life, most are well into decline, generating steady but modest monthly volumes rather than anything resembling peak output from the 1990s. What we offer reflects current production, recent gas pricing, and how much runway we estimate is left on the well based on its decline pattern.

We're not going to price your interest off what Antrim wells were producing at their peak twenty-five years ago, and you shouldn't trust any buyer who does. What matters is what the well is doing right now, and that's what we base our number on.