Sell your Mesa County mineral rights.

Mesa County is the southern Piceance Basin, sharing the Williams Fork and Mesaverde stacked lenticular sand character with Garfield County to the northeast, plus Cameo coal, Wasatch, and a small horizontal Mancos program that has produced real if modest results.

The first question here is not geology, it is ownership. Federal leasing dominates the productive fairway, with substantial BLM and Grand Mesa National Forest acreage. A Mesa County owner is more likely to hold a federal lease royalty than a fee mineral interest, and those convey differently. Fee minerals do exist in meaningful quantity in the Grand Valley around Fruita, Palisade, and Loma, and in Plateau Valley. We establish which you have before we talk about price, and that research is free.

Piceance Energy, Laramie Energy's operating entity, is the principal operator, describing itself as the third largest Piceance operator by production, reserves, and acreage. QB Energy, SWEVCO-SABW, and Fees Jr and Son are also present. Activity is modest, with roughly 22 permits filed across a two year window.

As in Garfield, the Piceance development pattern means owners commonly hold very small decimals spread across many wells, which makes verification laborious and makes most buyers decline the transaction. We buy small interests, run our own title, and pay all closing costs.

Colorado follows the first marketable product rule under Rogers v. Westerman Farm Co., so the costs of making gas marketable fall on the operator. And Colorado withholds 2 percent of the sales price on nonresident sales of real property over $100,000, which we disclose before closing. Send a statement.