Albion, Grayville, West Salem: we buy minerals and royalties throughout Edwards County, the west side of New Harmony Consolidated and the Albion and Bone Gap fields.
Edwards County is small, and its oil business is small operators: family companies out of Albion, Grayville and Mount Carmel working leases that the Superior Oil Company drilled in the 1940s. It was also one of the few Illinois counties whose production went up in 2025, by a few hundred barrels, which in this basin counts as news.
What produces here. The Illinois Petroleum Resources Board puts Edwards County at 91,193 barrels for calendar 2025, up from 90,517 in 2024, one of only six counties in the state to gain. The oil comes from the west side of New Harmony Consolidated and from Albion Consolidated, Albion East, Bone Gap Consolidated, Maple Grove Consolidated, Parkersburg Consolidated, Golden Gate Consolidated, Phillipstown Consolidated and Ellery East, with pay in the Ste. Genevieve, McClosky, Salem, Aux Vases, Warsaw, Bethel and St. Louis; the ISGS database carries about 930 unplugged oil producer records here against 1,275 plugged. The operators you will see on checks and in the county records include Dee Drilling of Mount Carmel, Fischer and Fischer Oil, Darrell Lynch, Zama Oil, Keepes Petroleum, Bully Oil, McDowell Brothers Oil, Podolsky, Maybe Oil, French Creek Company and Hocking Oil. The IDNR weekly permit logs show two oil well permits in 2025, Fischer and Fischer's Roosevelt A-1 to the Ste. Genevieve and Lynch's Reckling 4 to the Ullin, both on May 23, with Keepes Petroleum's Webb 2 permitted as an enhanced recovery injector in the Degonia that June, and two in 2026, Zama Oil's Broster 1 to the Grand Tower and Dutch Creek at 5,500 feet on March 10, a deep Devonian test for this county, and Dee Drilling's Lydia Lipper A-3 to the Bethel at 2,810 feet on March 26, plus Lynch and Fischer Family Enterprises injection permits in May and October 2026.
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 Illinois.
The west side of New Harmony Consolidated, discovered in 1939 and shared with White and Wabash counties, plus Albion Consolidated and Albion East, Bone Gap Consolidated, Maple Grove, Parkersburg, Golden Gate, Phillipstown and Ellery East.
Edwards County wells bottom in the Ste. Genevieve and McClosky above all, then the Salem, Aux Vases, Warsaw, Bethel and St. Louis, with a 5,500 foot Grand Tower test permitted in 2026.
Wherever your tract sits in Edwards County, we will research it free and value it with the work shown.
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