Meeker, Rangely: we buy minerals and royalties throughout Rio Blanco County, in the Piceance Basin and the Rangely field.
Rio Blanco County has two of the biggest energy stories in western Colorado under it: the Piceance Basin tight gas that QB Energy and Flywheel bought up in 2024 and 2025, and the Rangely Weber Sand Unit, a CO2 flood that has produced more than 815 million barrels. The royalty owners are a small group relative to the federal estate, and the ones who hold fee minerals under those units hold something worth pricing carefully.
What produces here. Piceance Basin Williams Fork gas and Rangely Weber oil. The county reported 252,900 barrels of oil and 6.5 Bcf of gas in June 2026 from 1,671 producing wells and 14 operators, including QB Energy Operating, Piceance Energy, Scout Energy Management, Swevco, WPX Energy Rocky Mountain, Anschutz Exploration and KT Resources. QB Energy, backed by Quantum, closed its roughly $1.8 billion purchase of Caerus's Piceance assets, about 600,000 acres, in August 2024, and Flywheel Energy took over Terra Energy Partners' Piceance position in mid 2025; the two account for about 80 percent of Piceance gas. Anschutz had six BHR Fed horizontal permits approved on February 18, 2026. Chevron sold Rangely to Scout on December 1, 2021.
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 Scout, QB or Flywheel check stub and we will tell you which unit you are in and what it is worth. Inherited it? Start with inherited mineral rights in Colorado.
Hundreds of pads of Mesaverde tight gas, held mostly by QB Energy and Flywheel after the 2024 and 2025 consolidation, with Anschutz drilling horizontals in 2026.
One of the largest oil fields in the Rockies, more than 815 million barrels recovered from the Weber, run with CO2 injection by Chevron until Scout Energy Management took over in December 2021.
Roughly 90 percent of the county is federal land, so the question of who owns the minerals under a tract comes before any question of value.
Wherever your tract sits in Rio Blanco County, we will research it free and value it with the work shown.
We buy in every Colorado county, including ones without a page here. See the full county index, or start with how to sell Colorado mineral rights.
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.
What Colorado mineral rights are worth, information only, with this month's activity. Unclaimed Colorado royalties: where the money goes and how an heir claims it.
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 guideEvery oil and gas operator in Colorado, with contact information, refreshed from the state regulator. Free to search, and useful whether or not you ever sell anything.
The things owners here most often wish they had read first. All free, none of it gated.
Free, no obligation, and no pressure. We reply within one business day, usually faster.
Prefer the phone? Call or text 918-984-1645 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 to 918-984-1645 and our preliminary offer puts a written number in front of you within about two business days. It holds for 7 while you decide.