Centreville, Brent, West Blocton: we buy minerals and royalties throughout Bibb County, the southern end of the Gurnee coalbed methane field in the Cahaba coal field.
Bibb County is the quiet end of the Cahaba coal field, where the Gurnee coalbed methane field that runs down from Shelby County thins out to its last few dozen wells. The wells are old, the operators have changed hands four or five times since the first ones were drilled, and the royalty checks are the kind that are easy to lose track of in an estate. That is the whole business here: small, steady gas royalties under names that need updating.
What produces here. Bibb County produced 18.9 million cubic feet of coalbed methane and no oil in August 2026 from 67 Gurnee field wells, 51 operated by Urban Oil and Gas Group and 16 by Calera Gas. The field was drilled in Bibb County from 1989 into the 2000s by McKenzie Methane, Gurnee Gas, GeoMet, and CDX Gas before Urban took it over, and the last new permits were four Urban wells in June 2014. Shell Western's Scottsville coal degasification wells from 1989 to 1991 are plugged. Nothing has been permitted in the county since 2014, and the Board's last 50 permits as of early November 2026 included none in Bibb.
Whatever you own here, producing royalties, non-producing acreage, or an inherited fraction split among family, we will identify it from whatever paperwork you have, value it off the actual wells and activity, and show you the reasoning with the offer. Free, no obligation, and no pressure: if keeping it is the right answer, we will say so. Inherited it? Start with inherited mineral rights in Alabama.
The Cahaba coal field's gas, drilled from 1989 into the 2000s by McKenzie Methane, Gurnee Gas, GeoMet, and CDX, with the Bibb County end now operated by Urban Oil and Gas Group and Calera Gas; about 65 wells still reporting.
Shell Western's coal degasification unit of 1989 to 1991, long plugged.
Wherever your tract sits in Bibb County, we will research it free and value it with the work shown.
We buy in every Alabama county, including ones without a page here. See the full county index, or start with how to sell Alabama mineral rights.
Whether you need a probate, the affidavit and transfer on death routes, the dormant mineral rules, and where unpaid royalties go: inherited mineral rights in Alabama, what heirs should do.
What Alabama mineral rights are worth, information only, with this month's activity. Unclaimed Alabama royalties: where the money goes and how an heir claims it.
Everything a Alabama owner needs in one place: who owns what under state law, how royalties must be paid and by when, what a buyer can and cannot deduct, the tax treatment of a sale, and the deadlines that quietly cost people their minerals. Free, and no sign-up.
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Prefer the phone? Call or text 918-984-1645 and you will get Stephen, the owner, not a call center. If we miss you, we text back the same day.
In a hurry? Text a photo of a royalty check stub to 918-984-1645 and our preliminary offer puts a written number in front of you within about two business days. It holds for 7 while you decide.