# Sell Mineral Rights in Hale County, AL | Berlin Royalties > Sell Hale County, AL mineral rights: acreage over the plugged Moundville coalbed methane field near Greensboro and Moundville. Free valuation, work shown. Source: https://www.berlinroyalties.com/alabama/hale-county/ Publisher: Berlin Royalties, a veteran-owned oil and gas mineral and royalty buyer in Tulsa, Oklahoma, buying for its own account since 2014. Call or text 918-984-1645. License: free to quote and cite with attribution to Berlin Royalties and a link to the source URL. Where We Buy · Alabama · Hale County ## Sell your Hale County mineral rights. Greensboro, Moundville, Akron: we buy minerals and royalties throughout Hale County, the plugged southern end of the Black Warrior coalbed methane. [Get a Free Valuation](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/free-valuation/) or call or text [918-984-1645](tel:9189841645) 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](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/inherited-mineral-rights/alabama/). Formations & Plays ## What produces here ### Moundville coalbed methane 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. ### Hardin Creek A single Smackco Knox oil well from 1990, plugged in 1996, the county's only non-coal production. Counties ## Communities we see in Hale County title Greensboro Moundville Akron Newbern Wherever your tract sits in Hale County, we will research it free and value it with the work shown. 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See the [full county index](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/counties/), or start with how to [sell Alabama mineral rights](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/alabama/). ### Inherited Alabama minerals? 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](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/inherited-mineral-rights/alabama/). [What Alabama mineral rights are worth](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/mineral-rights-value/alabama/), information only, with this month's activity. [Unclaimed Alabama royalties](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/unclaimed-royalties/alabama/): where the money goes and how an heir claims it. ### The Alabama mineral owner's guide 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. [Read the Alabama guide](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/guide/alabama/) Questions ## Straight answers for Hale County owners What are mineral rights worth in Hale County? Honestly, not much today: the Moundville field is plugged, the Board last recorded gas from it in 2007, and no permit has been issued in the county since 2007. Non-producing acreage here is worth what a buyer will pay to hold it against the chance the Tuscaloosa County coal gas operators ever come back south, and we will tell you that number and how we got it, free. The Moundville wells paid my parents in the 1990s. Could there be money we never got? Possibly. Royalties an operator could not deliver because the owner had died or moved are presumed abandoned after three years in Alabama and turned over to the State Treasurer's unclaimed property division, where they sit under the last name the operator had. We search the Treasurer's records under every family name in the chain as part of the free title work, and tell you what we find whether or not you sell. Our Hale County minerals were never probated. Does that matter if nothing is producing? It matters the day someone wants to lease or buy. Alabama has no transfer on death deed, so inherited minerals pass through probate, and an unprobated interest becomes heirs property held by every descendant at once. Leasing or selling then requires signatures from all of them. We tell you what cleaning that up would involve, free, before anyone decides anything. What does it cost me to sell? Nothing. Berlin pays all title work, document preparation, and recording costs. The offer you accept is the amount you receive. ## Before you sign anything in Hale County The things owners here most often wish they had read first. All free, none of it gated. - [How mineral rights are valued](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/mineral-rights-value/), including the rule of thumb people quote and why it is usually wrong - [How to sell mineral rights](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/sell-mineral-rights/) and [how to sell oil and gas royalties](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/sell-oil-and-gas-royalties/), with the real process and timeline - [Who buys mineral rights](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/who-buys-mineral-rights/), the five kinds of buyer compared, and [the companies that buy mineral rights](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/mineral-buyers/) and how to check them - [The Pugh clause](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/pugh-clause/), the single most valuable sentence you can negotiate into a lease - [What a farm out is](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/farmout-agreements/), and why your operator suddenly changed - [The rule of capture](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/rule-of-capture/), and why a neighbor's well can legally drain your minerals - [Non-participating royalty interests](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/non-participating-royalty-interest/), if your deed carved one out - [Executive rights](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/executive-rights/), if somebody else signs the lease that binds your minerals - [Surface owner rights](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/surface-owner-rights/), if you own the ground and someone else owns what is under it - [Questions to ask a buyer](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/questions-to-ask/) and [what happens if you want out after signing](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/can-i-back-out-of-a-mineral-rights-sale/) Free Valuation ## Find out what your Hale County minerals are worth. Free, no obligation, and no pressure. We reply within one business day, usually faster. Prefer the phone? Call or text [918-984-1645](tel:9189841645) 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](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/text-your-check/) to [918-984-1645](tel:9189841645) and our [preliminary offer](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/preliminary-offer/) puts a written number in front of you within about two business days. It holds for 7 while you decide. Your Name Phone Number Email Address Where are your minerals located? 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