Batesville, Southside, Newark: we buy minerals and royalties throughout Independence County, the eastern end of the Fayetteville Shale.
Independence County is where the Fayetteville Shale runs out of steam to the east: a few dozen units around Oil Trough, Newark and the Batesville end of the county, drilled during the boom and quietly producing ever since. The checks are gas checks, small and steady, and the name on them has changed twice since the wells were drilled, which is where most of the confusion starts.
What produces here. Arkansas Oil and Gas Commission production data show Independence County at 110,557 Mcf of gas and no oil for June 2026, with monthly volumes between 100,000 and 115,000 Mcf through the first nine months of the year. Almost all of it is reported by Van Buren Energy Production, the Flywheel Energy affiliate that holds the former XTO Energy Fayetteville position, with a small amount from Razorback Production, the Flywheel affiliate that holds the former Merit Energy and BHP wells. Flywheel announced in February 2025 that it would drill the first new Fayetteville Shale wells since 2018, in Cleburne County; none were in Independence County.
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 Arkansas.
The eastern edge of the Mississippian dry gas play, drilled during the boom years and not since; the units here are operated by Van Buren Energy Production, the Flywheel affiliate that took over XTO's wells in 2022.
Shallow-decline shale gas that has paid steadily for a decade and will pay for years more, the kind of royalty that is easy to value honestly off the statements.
Wherever your tract sits in Independence County, we will research it free and value it with the work shown.
We buy in every Arkansas county, including ones without a page here. See the full county index, or start with how to sell Arkansas 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 Arkansas, what heirs should do.
What Arkansas mineral rights are worth, information only, with this month's activity. Unclaimed Arkansas royalties: where the money goes and how an heir claims it.
Everything a Arkansas 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.