# Oil and Gas Basins: Mineral Owner Guides by Play | Berlin Royalties > Basin by basin guides for mineral owners: Bakken, Marcellus, Utica, Powder River, DJ Basin, Permian, SCOOP and STACK, Haynesville and more, with the state law that decides what your royalty is worth. Source: https://www.berlinroyalties.com/basins/ 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. Basins & Plays ## Minerals are priced by basin, not by state. A basin decides your geology. A state line decides your law. Most basins cross one, and the difference between the two sides is frequently larger than owners realize. These pages cover both. [Get a Free Valuation](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/free-valuation/) [Call 918-984-1645](tel:9189841645) Multi-state basins ## Basins that cross a state line These are the pages where the law matters most, because two owners with nearly identical geology and nearly identical leases can end up with materially different checks depending on which side of a line they are on. [### Bakken / Williston North Dakota and Montana. A cost free 16 percent for unleased North Dakota owners against one eighth in Montana, a 20 year abandonment statute on one side and none on the other, and a 6 percent royalty withholding on the other.](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/basins/bakken-williston/) [### Marcellus Shale Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Deductions are lawful under Kilmer on one side of the line and largely forbidden under Tawney and Romeo on the other. Plus the Dunham Rule, which decides whether you own the gas at all.](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/basins/marcellus/) [### Utica Shale Eastern Ohio and beneath Appalachian Marcellus acreage. Ohio gives a surface owner two independent statutory routes to take a severed mineral interest, and the Ohio Supreme Court has confirmed both work.](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/basins/utica/) [### Powder River Basin Wyoming. Seven potential targets stacked under one section, a statutory royalty definition that protects your check, and no state income tax when you sell.](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/basins/powder-river/) [### DJ Basin / Niobrara Colorado, Wyoming, and Nebraska. What SB 19-181 did to development timing, the 45 percent pooling threshold that gives unleased owners real leverage, and the Codell inventory nobody counts.](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/basins/dj-basin-niobrara/) [### Permian Basin West Texas and southeast New Mexico. The most valuable minerals on earth and the most heavily mailed. Stacked benches, and a state line where the tax and royalty regimes diverge sharply.](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/texas/permian-basin/) Oklahoma ## Our home basins [### SCOOP & STACK Woodford, Meramec, Osage, and Springer across Grady, Garvin, McClain, Kingfisher, Blaine, and Canadian. The sections we know best.](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/oklahoma/scoop-stack/) [### Western Anadarko Deep Anadarko gas and the Granite Wash trend running to the Texas Panhandle.](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/oklahoma/western-anadarko/) [### Cherokee Shale The northeast Oklahoma oil play that has quietly become one of the most active in the state.](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/oklahoma/cherokee-shale/) [### Arkoma Basin Eastern Oklahoma gas, from the Woodford to the shallow Hartshorne coals, and the Arkansas side of the same geology.](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/oklahoma/arkoma-basin/) [### Marietta Basin South central Oklahoma, small, structurally complex, and largely overlooked by everyone else.](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/oklahoma/marietta-basin/) [### All of Oklahoma Forced pooling, the Corporation Commission, 47 of 77 counties bought in, and the state we understand better than anyone selling you mail.](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/oklahoma/) Texas ## Texas basins [### Delaware Basin Reeves, Loving, Ward, and Culberson, plus the New Mexico side in Lea and Eddy.](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/texas/delaware-basin/) [### Eagle Ford South Texas oil, condensate, and gas with more than a decade of development history.](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/texas/eagle-ford/) [### Haynesville East Texas dry gas, and the play continues across the line into the Louisiana parishes where prescription law changes everything.](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/texas/haynesville/) [### Barnett Shale The play that started the shale era, now a long tail annuity under the Fort Worth metro.](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/texas/barnett-shale/) [### East Texas Cotton Valley, Travis Peak, and the legacy East Texas Field.](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/texas/east-texas/) [### Texas Panhandle Granite Wash and the Anadarko Basin geology we work daily on the Oklahoma side.](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/texas-panhandle/) ### Not sure which basin you are in? Send a check stub, a legal description, or just a county and a family name. We will tell you what basin you sit in, what has been drilled and permitted around you, what the interest is worth and how we got there, and whether we think you should keep it. Free, and no obligation of any kind. [Get a Free Valuation](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/free-valuation/) [Ask a Landman](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/ask-a-landman/) ## Related - [Every state where we buy](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/where-we-buy/) - [How mineral and royalty interests are valued](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/mineral-rights-value/) - [Royalty payment laws by state, with statute citations](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/royalty-payment-laws/) - [Free well records and production searches for 20 states](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/well-records/) - [Operator directory, refreshed weekly from state regulators](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/operators/)