Chatom, McIntosh, Millry: we buy minerals and royalties throughout Washington County, legacy Smackover country with one deep gas unit still on line.
Washington County had its oil boom fifty years ago. The Chatom Unit and the fields around it drew Phillips Petroleum and Amoco to the county seat in the 1970s, and then declined for four decades until the last unit wells were plugged in 2021. What is left is one deep Smackover gas unit, a salt dome full of someone else's stored gas, and a great many families holding royalty deeds on tracts that have not paid since the unit was plugged.
What produces here. Washington County produced 4,169 barrels of condensate and 38 million cubic feet of gas in August 2026 from a single well, Crosbys Creek Oil and Gas's CCGU 34-14 No. 1 in the Crosbys Creek Gas Unit; the same unit reported 59,847 barrels and 426 million cubic feet for calendar 2025. The Chatom Unit, operated at the end by Mississippi Resources doing business as MSR Operating, last reported production in 2021 and its wells were plugged in 2020 and 2021; Southeast Chatom, Copeland, Red Creek, and Healing Springs are plugged as well. Bay Gas Storage operates five gas storage cavern wells in the McIntosh salt dome. The one 2026 permit in the county is Crosbys Creek Oil and Gas's Darlys Dees 3-3 No. 1 saltwater disposal well, permitted October 28, 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.
A deep gas condensate unit north of Chatom operated by Crosbys Creek Oil and Gas, the county's only production in 2025 and 2026.
The Smackover fields that fed the Chatom and Copeland plants from the 1970s; the Chatom Unit was plugged out by MSR Operating in 2020 and 2021 and the rest are plugged.
Bay Gas Storage's five cavern wells at McIntosh store gas rather than produce it.
Wherever your tract sits in Washington County, we will research it free and value it with the work shown.
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