# Sell Uinta Basin Mineral Rights | Uintah & Duchesne County, Utah | Berlin Royalties > Sell Uinta Basin mineral rights and royalties in Uintah and Duchesne County, Utah. 910 permits in 90 days, Koda Resources, waxy crude economics, federal and tribal checkerboard, and what an interest is actually worth. Source: https://www.berlinroyalties.com/basins/uinta/ 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 ยท Uinta ## Sell your Uinta Basin mineral rights and royalties. Uintah and Duchesne Counties have 910 approved permits in the last 90 days. That is more than anywhere in America outside the Delaware and Midland Basins, and almost nobody is writing about it. [Get a Free Valuation](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/free-valuation/) or call or text [918-984-1645](tel:9189841645) The Uinta Basin is, right now, the most active drilling area in the United States that almost nobody writes about for mineral owners. Uintah County has **637 approved permits in the last 90 days** and Duchesne has **273**. Nine hundred and ten permits between two counties. Outside the Delaware and Midland, nothing in America is close. Berlin buys Uinta Basin minerals and royalties, in Uintah and Duchesne, and we also buy the Carbon and Emery County coalbed methane interests that nobody else will look at. ## The consolidation nobody has explained to owners The operator list is the story here. **Koda Resources** already operates roughly **3,940 producing wells in Uintah County**, more than any other company, and its two permitting entities, Koda Uinta and Koda GNB, account for about **452 of the recent permits**. Behind them: | Operator | Approved permits, last 90 days | | Koda Uinta | 259 || Koda GNB | 193 || FourPoint Resources | 120 || Uinta Wax Operating | 78 || SM Energy | 73 || Finley Resources | 38 || Scout Energy Management | 33 || Anschutz Exploration | 33 || WEM Operating | 29 || Crescent Energy | 22 || Berry Petroleum | 14 | When a company most owners have never heard of becomes the largest operator in a county and simultaneously files hundreds of permits, that is a consolidation. Consolidations are the single most reliable predictor of mineral owners getting mail, because acreage positions get cleaned up at the same time they get drilled. If offers are arriving at your Uintah or Duchesne address, this is why. The person sending them knows what is permitted around your section. Most owners do not. ## Waxy crude, and why the price deck matters more here Uinta oil is genuinely unusual. It is **waxy**, with a high pour point, meaning it approaches solid at ambient temperature and has to be kept heated in transit. For most of the basin's history that confined it to a small number of Salt Lake City refineries configured to run it, which meant a captive market and a persistent discount. Rail capacity opened Gulf Coast options and changed the arithmetic. What that means for you: **Uinta crude trades at a differential to WTI driven by logistics, and that differential moves.** A valuation that quotes you a WTI-based number without disclosing the differential it assumed is not showing you its work. Ours shows you the price assumption as a line item, because in this basin it is one of the largest single inputs. ## The federal and tribal overlay This is the fact that distinguishes Utah from every other state we buy in. The Utah Geological Survey's own land classification for the Uinta Basin: | Manager | Share of basin minerals | | **BLM** | 37.6% || **Native American reservation** | 19.6% || **State of Utah** | 11.0% || **U.S. Forest Service** | 8.9% || **Private** | **22.3%** | A private Uinta mineral owner holds a minority position in somebody else's checkerboard. Split estate is normal rather than exceptional. Three consequences that show up in real dollars: - **Permitting runs on federal timelines** where federal minerals are involved, which affects when your undeveloped acreage is actually drilled. - **Unit agreements and participating areas** determine what a fee owner inside a federal unit receives and when. Your lease is not the whole story. - **The federal share is administered under ONRR rules**, not your lease terms. None of this makes a Uinta interest a bad asset. It makes it one that has to be underwritten with the overlay in view, and it explains why a lot of out of state buyers quote Utah low and decline to say why. ## What actually moves value in this basin - **Whether your section has a permit.** More than anywhere else we buy, this is the number one input right now, because the permit map is moving monthly. - **Which operator holds the acreage.** A Koda or FourPoint section and a section held by a small operator with no permits are different assets. - **Fee, federal, state, or tribal.** Establish this before anything else. It changes the royalty administration and it changes the buyer pool. - **The crude differential assumption.** Ask any buyer, including us, to state it. - **Stripper status.** Utah exempts stripper wells from severance tax entirely, under 20 barrels of oil per day or 60 Mcf per day or less for 90 consecutive days. On an older Uinta interest, that exemption changes the net to you. - **Title depth.** Utah's 3-year limitation on commencing probate, combined with a small estate affidavit that does not transfer real property, produces a lot of stale Uinta title. See [selling inherited minerals before probate is done](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/sell-inherited-minerals-probate/). ## Carbon and Emery are a different asset entirely Southwest of the oil fairway, [Carbon](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/utah/carbon-county/) and [Emery](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/utah/emery-county/) Counties are **coalbed methane**: the Ferron and Drunkards Wash fields, among the earliest commercial CBM in the West. Roughly 1,000 producing wells in Carbon and 234 in Emery, with a single operator holding most of both. These are small monthly gas checks from shallow wells drilled thirty years ago, split across two or three generations. Every large buyer ignores them, because the cost of running title and recording a deed is the same whether an interest is worth two thousand dollars or two hundred thousand. Owners read that silence as proof of no value. We have no minimum, we run our own title, and we pay all closing costs. See [small mineral interests](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/small-mineral-interests/) and [unclaimed royalties](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/unclaimed-royalties/). ## Where to go next - [Utah mineral rights](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/utah/): severance tax and the stripper exemption, the 150 to 400 percent pooling band, no dormant mineral act, and the probate trap - [Uintah County](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/utah/uintah-county/) and [Duchesne County](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/utah/duchesne-county/) - [Carbon](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/utah/carbon-county/), [Emery](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/utah/emery-county/), [Grand](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/utah/grand-county/), and [San Juan](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/utah/san-juan-county/) Counties - [How mineral rights are valued](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/mineral-rights-value/) and [when not to sell](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/when-not-to-sell/) - [The rule of capture](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/rule-of-capture/), which is why a permit next door is your business - [Well records by state](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/well-records/), which links Utah's free Data Explorer Permit, rig, and well counts are sourced from Enverus and current as of August 2026. Land ownership shares are from the Utah Geological Survey's Uinta Basin land classification. Berlin Royalties is a mineral buyer and a landman shop in Tulsa, not a law firm or a tax advisor, and this page is general information rather than advice about your interest. Formations & Plays ## What is under a Uinta tract ### Uteland Butte The carbonate-rich interval that made the modern Uinta a horizontal play. Most of the recent drilling targets it, and it is the reason a basin written off as a conventional relic is now one of the busiest permitting areas in the country. ### Wasatch and Green River The stacked lacustrine section that has produced here since the 1940s. Douglas Creek, Castle Peak, and the various Green River benches, some conventional, some now horizontal. ### Mahogany and oil shale The richest oil shale resource in the world sits under this basin. It is not commercially produced, and any valuation that assigns it value is selling you something. ### Gas and NGL in the deep basin The southwestern deep basin, historically gas-prone, with a very different production profile from the waxy crude fairway. Counties ## Where the Uinta Basin is [Utah](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/utah/) [Uintah County](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/utah/uintah-county/) [Duchesne County](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/utah/duchesne-county/) [Carbon County](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/utah/carbon-county/) [Emery County](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/utah/emery-county/) Wasatch Grand Uintah and Duchesne carry essentially all of the drilling. Carbon and Emery to the southwest are coalbed methane rather than oil, and they are valued on completely different logic. Questions ## Straight answers for Uinta Basin owners How active is the Uinta Basin right now? Very. Uintah County has 637 approved permits in the last 90 days and Duchesne has 273, which is 910 between them. Outside the Delaware and Midland Basins, no area in the United States is permitting at that rate. Fourteen rigs are running across the basin. If your impression of the Uinta is a quiet conventional field, that impression is several years out of date. Who is drilling here? The permit list is led by names most mineral owners have never heard. Koda Uinta and Koda GNB together account for roughly 452 of the recent permits, and Koda Resources already operates about 3,940 producing wells in Uintah County, making it the largest operator in the county. Behind them: FourPoint Resources at roughly 120 permits, Uinta Wax Operating at 78, SM Energy at 73, Finley Resources at 38, Scout Energy at 33, Anschutz Exploration at 33, WEM Operating at 29, and Crescent Energy at 22. When an unfamiliar operator is buying and permitting at that pace, it usually means a consolidation is underway, and consolidations are exactly when mineral owners get approached. What is waxy crude and why does it matter to my royalty? Uinta oil is unusually waxy, with a high pour point, meaning it is close to solid at ambient temperature. It has to be kept heated in transit, which historically limited the basin to a handful of Salt Lake City refineries configured to take it. Rail capacity changed that and opened Gulf Coast markets. The practical consequence for you is that Uinta crude has always traded at a differential to WTI driven by transportation rather than by quality alone, and that differential moves. Any Uinta valuation should show you the price assumption it used rather than quoting WTI at you. Why does it matter that so much of the basin is federal or tribal? Because in the Uinta it is the majority. The Utah Geological Survey's land classification puts basin mineral management at roughly 37.6 percent BLM, 19.6 percent Native American reservation, 11.0 percent State of Utah, 8.9 percent Forest Service, and only 22.3 percent private. Split estate is the normal condition. If your fee interest sits inside a federal unit, the unit agreement and participating area determine what you receive and when, permitting runs on federal timelines, and the federal share is administered under ONRR rules rather than your lease. It does not make your interest bad. It makes it something that has to be underwritten with the federal overlay in view, which is why a lot of buyers quote Utah conservatively without explaining why. What does a Uinta interest actually sell for? It depends far more on your specific section than on the basin, and this is a basin where that is unusually true. A section with a Koda or FourPoint permit on it and a section ten miles away with no permit are different assets, and right now the permit map is moving fast enough that a valuation six months old is stale. Send us your legal description and we will tell you what has been permitted around you before we tell you a number. Can I be force pooled in Utah? Yes, under Utah Code Ann. section 40-6-6.5, and the nonconsent penalty band is the widest in the country: 150 percent to 400 percent, set case by case by the Board. An unleased nonconsenting owner receives a carried royalty equal to the acreage-weighted average landowner's royalty in the unit, proportionately reduced, or 16 and two thirds percent if there are no other private tracts. The election period is not in the statute; it is set by Board rule and stated in your order. Read the order the day it arrives. Free Valuation ## Find out what your Uinta Basin minerals are worth. Free, no obligation, and no pressure. 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