Greensboro, Moundville, Akron: we buy minerals and royalties throughout Hale County, the plugged southern end of the Black Warrior coalbed methane.
Hale County had a coalbed methane field once. Moundville was drilled in a hurry in 1989 and 1990, about 250 wells on the southern end of the Black Warrior coal trend, and it was plugged a decade later. The wells are gone, most of the leases that sat on them went with the production, and what Hale families hold now is the mineral estate those leases sat on, which still has a value and still deserves a straight answer.
What produces here. Nothing today. The State Oil and Gas Board lists 266 wells in Hale County and none producing: 249 of them are Moundville coalbed methane wells, permitted in 1989 and 1990 by Teco Coalbed Methane, Taurus Exploration, Land and Natural Resource Development, and Metfuel, and plugged between 2001 and 2005. Holland Operating permitted five more in 2006; the Board's database shows 5.9 million cubic feet from the field in 2007 and nothing after, and those wells were plugged in 2010. Smackco's Hardin Creek Knox oil well from 1990 was plugged in 1996, Coronado Alabama's and Trophy Petroleum's 2006 and 2007 wildcats were dry or cancelled, and no permit has been issued in the county since September 2007. The Board's production database has no Hale County entry for August 2026.
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.
About 250 wells permitted in 1989 and 1990 by Teco Coalbed Methane, Taurus Exploration, Land and Natural Resource Development, and Metfuel in the Pottsville coal interval, plugged between 2001 and 2005; five Holland Operating wells from 2006 were plugged by 2010.
A single Smackco Knox oil well from 1990, plugged in 1996, the county's only non-coal production.
Wherever your tract sits in Hale County, we will research it free and value it with the work shown.
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