Lawrenceville, Bridgeport, Sumner: we buy minerals and royalties throughout Lawrence County, the Lawrence field on the Indiana line, now Campbell Energy's.
Lawrence County is one field, mostly, and that field has had a lot of owners. The Ohio Oil Company drilled the Lawrence field up along the La Salle anticline in the early 1900s, Marathon ran it for decades, and it passed through Plains Illinois, PennTex and Rex Energy before Campbell Energy bought Rex's Illinois Basin position for $40 million in 2016. The royalty owners stayed put through all of it, and a great many of them are now three generations removed from the lease.
What produces here. The Illinois Petroleum Resources Board puts Lawrence County at 226,235 barrels for calendar 2025, ninth in the state, down from 291,845 in 2024, a 22 percent drop and the third largest decline in Illinois. The oil comes from the Lawrence field, one of the six consolidated fields that make up half the basin, and from the south end of Main Consolidated, Allendale, Lancaster, Berryville, Ruark, Beman, St. Francisville and the Russellville gas field, with pay in the Pennsylvanian and Chester sands, Cypress and Benoist, and the Ste. Genevieve, St. Louis and Salem beneath; the ISGS database carries about 5,200 unplugged oil producer records here, most of them still under the Ohio Oil, Marathon, Plains and PennTex names. The operators you will see on checks and in the county records today include Campbell Energy, CDG Operations, Dee Drilling of Mount Carmel, David Hulfachor and Herman L. Loeb of Lawrenceville. Drilling picked up in 2026: the IDNR weekly permit logs show one oil well permit in 2025, CDG's L K Leighty 107 to the Salem in November, and at least five in 2026, Dee Drilling's Jim Kelsey 5 in the Cypress in April and JC Catt 1A and Catt 2-A to the Salem at 2,650 feet in May and June, and CDG's H H Gould 47 and E Leighty 111 to the Salem at 2,375 feet on August 25, 2026, along with two Hulfachor injection permits on the Seed lease.
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.
One of the six consolidated fields that produce half the basin, Pennsylvanian and Chester sands along the La Salle anticline drilled by the Ohio Oil Company and Marathon, sold through Plains Illinois and PennTex to Rex Energy and, in 2016, to Campbell Energy.
The south end of Main Consolidated, plus Allendale, Lancaster, Berryville, Ruark, Beman and St. Francisville, with the Ste. Genevieve, St. Louis and Salem carbonates under the sands; the 2026 permits are Salem wells at 2,375 to 2,650 feet.
Wherever your tract sits in Lawrence County, we will research it free and value it with the work shown.
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