# Sell Mineral Rights in Montezuma County, CO | Berlin > Sell Montezuma County, CO mineral rights: McElmo Dome CO2 royalties and Paradox Basin oil around Cortez. Priced honestly, work shown, free. Source: https://www.berlinroyalties.com/colorado/montezuma-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 · Colorado · Montezuma County ## Sell your Montezuma County mineral rights. Cortez, Dolores, Mancos: we buy minerals and royalties throughout Montezuma County, the McElmo Dome CO2 field and the Paradox Basin. [Get a Free Valuation](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/free-valuation/) or call or text [918-984-1645](tel:9189841645) Montezuma County is the largest gas-producing county in Colorado by volume and almost none of it is natural gas. McElmo Dome produces carbon dioxide, more than 18 billion cubic feet a month, piped south to the Permian to push oil out of old fields. The royalties under Cortez are CO2 royalties, with decades of history and a decline curve that has nothing to do with Henry Hub. **What produces here.** Carbon dioxide from the McElmo Dome Leadville Limestone reservoir, operated by Kinder Morgan CO2 Co LP, plus small Paradox Basin oil producers. The county reported 18.5 Bcf from 84 producing wells and 5 operators in June 2026, including Kinder Morgan, Seeley Oil, Rim Operating and Bayless. MineralAnswers put the county at about 120,900 barrels of oil equivalent a day in April 2026, the highest of any Colorado county not yet on this site, nearly all of it CO2. More than half the county's tax revenue comes from the field. 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. Send a Kinder Morgan check stub and we will read the unit and the contract behind it. Inherited it? Start with [inherited mineral rights in Colorado](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/inherited-mineral-rights/colorado/). Formations & Plays ## What produces here ### McElmo Dome CO2, Leadville Limestone Kinder Morgan's McElmo Dome unit, with more than 20 Tcf of CO2 in place, shipped on the Cortez pipeline to Permian oil floods and the source of more than half the county's tax revenue. ### Paradox Basin Ismay oil Small conventional oil producers on the county's western side. ### Ute Mountain Ute trust minerals The reservation's 553,008 trust acres across Montezuma and La Plata counties and into New Mexico overlie Paradox and San Juan Basin rock. Counties ## Communities we see in Montezuma County title Cortez Dolores Mancos Towaoc Wherever your tract sits in Montezuma 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 Colorado mineral rights](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/colorado/). ### Inherited Colorado 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 Colorado, what heirs should do](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/inherited-mineral-rights/colorado/). [What Colorado mineral rights are worth](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/mineral-rights-value/colorado/), information only, with this month's activity. [Unclaimed Colorado royalties](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/unclaimed-royalties/colorado/): where the money goes and how an heir claims it. ### The Colorado mineral owner's guide Everything a Colorado 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 Colorado guide](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/guide/colorado/) [Every oil and gas operator in Colorado](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/operators/colorado/), with contact information, refreshed from the state regulator. Free to search, and useful whether or not you ever sell anything. Questions ## Straight answers for Montezuma County owners What are mineral rights worth in Montezuma County? It depends on the wells and units actually touching your tract, their decline, and your decimal, and in Montezuma County that ranges widely, so county averages mislead. We value off the actual wells and activity and show the work, free. These are CO2 royalties. Are they valued like oil and gas? No, and most buyers do not know the difference. Bravo Dome and the Colorado CO2 domes produce gas that is roughly 97 to 99 percent carbon dioxide, sold by pipeline to Permian Basin enhanced recovery projects under long term contracts, priced per Mcf of CO2 rather than off Henry Hub. The checks are steady, the decline is slow, and the value turns on the contract and the unit's remaining life rather than on a commodity curve. We price them that way and show the arithmetic. Are my Montezuma County minerals on the reservation? Possibly. The Ute Mountain Ute Reservation holds 553,008 acres in trust across Montezuma and La Plata counties and San Juan County, New Mexico, and trust minerals are leased and probated federally, not through the county. Fee minerals around Cortez, Mancos and Dolores are a different matter and pass through Colorado probate. We check which you hold before anything else. How does Colorado severance tax hit my royalty? Colorado's severance tax is graduated from 2 percent to 5 percent of gross income, with an ad valorem credit for property taxes paid at the well (65.625 percent of gross income times the prior year mill levy from 2026) and a stripper exemption for oil wells under 15 barrels a day and gas wells under 90 Mcf a day. The effective statewide rate was about 1.7 percent in 2022. Operators normally withhold it, and royalty owners file their own Colorado severance returns. 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 Montezuma 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 Montezuma 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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