Fort Morgan, Brush, Wiggins: five producing wells in the entire county and a large plugging obligation behind them, which makes this an acreage question.
Morgan County is on the eastern DJ shelf, and it is effectively dormant. Roughly 5 wells produce against 3,040 drilled and about 2,207 inactive, with county oil down from roughly 140,762 barrels in 2012 to about 22,331 in 2025 and gas down from roughly 446,458 Mcf in 2014 to about 3,111. There are no permits and no spuds.
The historic production was shallow D Sand and J Sand conventional. An early Niobrara horizontal test exists but produced trivially, and no commercial horizontal play has been established here. This is a single zone shelf county, not a stacked play.
So we value Morgan County minerals as speculative acreage rather than as income, and we show you the reasoning. There is no production stream to buy. What there is, is the possibility of a future lease bonus if operators return, and that is a modest number honestly arrived at.
One caution specific to this county. K.P. Kauffman Company, which carries roughly 623 leases and 876 wells statewide, has been a repeated Energy and Carbon Management Commission enforcement and plugging obligation subject. If your interest is tied to its operations, there is genuine orphan well and bonding exposure behind whatever is described as producing. We check operator status before assigning value, and we tell you what we find.
Colorado does follow the first marketable product rule under Rogers v. Westerman, and SB 19-181 gives unleased owners real leverage in any future pooling. We have no minimum interest size and we pay all closing costs. Send a legal description and we will tell you the truth about what is under it.
Legacy shallow oil and gas on the eastern DJ shelf. Single zone, not stacked.
An early horizontal test exists but produced trivially. No commercial horizontal play is established here.
Wherever your tract sits in Morgan County, we will research it free and value it with the work shown.
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