# Sell Mineral Rights in Washington County, AL | Berlin > Sell Washington County, AL mineral rights: Crosbys Creek and old Chatom Smackover royalties near Chatom, McIntosh and Millry. Free valuation, work shown. Source: https://www.berlinroyalties.com/alabama/washington-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 · Washington County ## Sell your Washington County mineral rights. Chatom, McIntosh, Millry: we buy minerals and royalties throughout Washington County, legacy Smackover country with one deep gas unit still on line. [Get a Free Valuation](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/free-valuation/) or call or text [918-984-1645](tel:9189841645) 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](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/inherited-mineral-rights/alabama/). Formations & Plays ## What produces here ### Crosbys Creek Smackover A deep gas condensate unit north of Chatom operated by Crosbys Creek Oil and Gas, the county's only production in 2025 and 2026. ### Chatom, Southeast Chatom, Copeland, and Red Creek 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. ### McIntosh salt dome Bay Gas Storage's five cavern wells at McIntosh store gas rather than produce it. Counties ## Communities we see in Washington County title Chatom McIntosh Millry Wherever your tract sits in Washington 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 Washington County owners What are mineral rights worth in Washington County? It depends on the wells and units actually touching your tract, their decline, and your decimal, and in Washington County one Smackover unit is producing and the rest of the county is plugged, so county averages mislead badly. We value off the actual wells and activity and show the work, free. What taxes come off an Alabama royalty check? Alabama stacks two production taxes: the privilege tax, with an 8 percent headline rate that steps down to 6 percent for wells permitted after July 1, 1988 and 4 percent for oil wells at 25 barrels a day or less and gas wells at 200 Mcf a day or less, and a 2 percent production tax. Both come off before your royalty is figured. The Chatom unit paid my grandmother for years. Is there money still owed on it? 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. 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 Washington 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 Washington 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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