# Sell Mineral Rights in Rio Blanco County, CO | Berlin > Sell Rio Blanco County, CO mineral rights: Piceance gas and the Rangely Weber unit around Meeker and Rangely. Free valuation, work shown. Source: https://www.berlinroyalties.com/colorado/rio-blanco-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 · Rio Blanco County ## Sell your Rio Blanco County mineral rights. Meeker, Rangely: we buy minerals and royalties throughout Rio Blanco County, in the Piceance Basin and the Rangely field. [Get a Free Valuation](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/free-valuation/) or call or text [918-984-1645](tel:9189841645) 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](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/inherited-mineral-rights/colorado/). Formations & Plays ## What produces here ### Piceance Basin Williams Fork tight gas 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. ### Rangely Weber Sand Unit 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. ### Federal minerals 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. Counties ## Communities we see in Rio Blanco County title Meeker Rangely Wherever your tract sits in Rio Blanco 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 Rio Blanco County owners What are mineral rights worth in Rio Blanco County? It depends on the wells and units actually touching your tract, their decline, and your decimal, and in Rio Blanco County that ranges widely, so county averages mislead. We value off the actual wells and activity and show the work, free. Do I own the minerals under my Rio Blanco County land? Often not. Roughly 90 percent of Rio Blanco County is federally owned, and federal minerals are leased by the BLM with the royalty paid to the United States and shared back to the state. Private fee minerals exist around Meeker and Rangely and in the old homestead patents, and that is where a family royalty can sit. We check the patent and the chain before quoting anything. Oil and gas property has supplied half or more of the county's property tax for about a decade. 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. I live out of state. Does Colorado withhold on a mineral sale? Yes. Colorado withholds 2 percent of the sales price when a nonresident sells Colorado real property for more than $100,000, and minerals are real property. We disclose the figure before closing rather than letting it surprise you on the settlement statement. 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 Rio Blanco 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 Rio Blanco 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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