Steamboat Springs, Hayden, Oak Creek: we buy minerals and royalties throughout Routt County, Tow Creek and the Yampa Valley's small Niobrara oil fields.
Routt County is better known for skiing and coal than for oil, but the Tow Creek field west of Steamboat has pumped Niobrara oil since 1924 and a dozen wells still do. The minerals here are tangled: coal reservations, railroad grants and ranch splits going back a century, so the question is often not what the wells pay but whether you actually own the oil under a deed that only mentions coal.
What produces here. ECMC production reports for June 2026 show Routt County at 2,327 barrels of oil and 2,992 Mcf of gas from 12 wells reporting production, nearly all of it Niobrara oil. The operators you will see on checks and in the county records include Beeman Oil and Gas, Robert L. Bayless Producer, Peakview Operating and Wyman Inc. No drilling permits or development plans for Routt County appeared in the ECMC's active permit data as of November 2026, so what you own here is legacy stripper production or non-producing acreage, not a drilling prospect.
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. Inherited it? Start with inherited mineral rights in Colorado.
Fractured Niobrara shale oil in the Tow Creek field, discovered in 1924 on the Tow Creek anticline west of Steamboat Springs, and a few other small pools worked today by Beeman Oil and Gas.
Much of Routt County's severed mineral estate was carved up for coal around Hayden and Oak Creek, and the deeds that did it decide whether oil and gas went with the coal or stayed with the surface.
Wherever your tract sits in Routt 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.
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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.