Carrollton, Aliceville, Reform, Gordo: we buy minerals and royalties throughout Pickens County, the busiest conventional corner of the Black Warrior Basin.
Pickens County is where the conventional Black Warrior Basin is still being worked. Land and Natural Resource Development keeps permitting new tests in old fields, so the forced integration notices and division orders keep arriving in mailboxes from Carrollton to Aliceville, usually addressed to someone who inherited the interest and has never seen the lease.
What produces here. Pickens County produced 2,602 barrels of oil and 35 million cubic feet of gas in August 2026 from 126 wells, led by Coal Fire Creek Gas, the Chicken Swamp Branch Oil Unit, Magby Creek, Buncomb Creek, Lubbub Creek, and Woolbank Creek. The operators you will see on checks and in the county records include Land and Natural Resource Development, which ran 113 of those wells, Jabsco Oil Operating, Black Snake Petroleum, and Hughes Eastern. The 2026 activity is all Land and Natural Resource Development: the Cunningham 16-12 in Coal Fire Creek Gas, permitted in February 2026 as a Pottsville A test and producing by July; the Cunningham 16-12 No. 2, permitted in March 2026 for a Benton sand completion and waiting on a rig; and the Prater 21-10 No. 1 in the Chicken Swamp Branch Oil field, permitted August 18, 2026 and preparing to drill as of October. Jabsco's Booth 29-2 No. 1 wildcat re-entry, tested through 2024 and 2025, was being plugged in October 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.
Stacked Pottsville, Benton, Carter, Fayette, and Lewis sand gas in the north end of the county, still being permitted into new zones by Land and Natural Resource Development.
A Pottsville A sand oil unit of about sixty wells, the largest single royalty source in the county.
Smaller Carter, Lewis, and Pottsville gas fields scattered across the county, most of them operated by small Alabama companies.
Wherever your tract sits in Pickens 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.