Olney, Noble, Claremont: we buy minerals and royalties throughout Richland County, the east end of Clay City Consolidated and the Olney and Parkersburg fields.
Richland County is a legacy county. Pure Oil and Union Oil of California drilled the Olney and Clay City leases in the 1930s and 1940s, the ISGS database now shows about 1,270 unplugged oil producer records here against 1,840 plugged, and the royalty owners we hear from are usually holding a small fraction of a lease that has changed hands more than once and still pays something every quarter.
What produces here. The Illinois Petroleum Resources Board puts Richland County at 178,599 barrels for calendar 2025, down from 193,790 in 2024. The oil comes from the east end of Clay City Consolidated, shared with Clay and Wayne counties, and from Parkersburg Consolidated, Olney Consolidated, Olney South, Calhoun Consolidated, Berryville Consolidated, Stringtown, Schnell and Amity South, with pay in the Ste. Genevieve, Salem, Cypress, McClosky, Ullin and St. Louis. The operators you will see on checks and in the county records include Elysium Energy, Citation Oil and Gas, Bunn and Bunn Oil, Murvin Oil, Calvert Drilling, JKL Oil and Tri-State Production and Development, the last two of which completed oil wells here in 2025 according to the ISGS well database. New permits are rare: the IDNR weekly logs show none in 2025 and two in 2026, Murvin Oil's Deck 1 injection well in the Rosiclare on April 14 and the Kermicle-Black 3 to the Salem at 3,300 feet on August 7, 2026, in Township 5 North, Range 10 East in the north end of the county.
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 east end of Clay City Consolidated, discovered in 1937, plus Parkersburg Consolidated, Olney Consolidated and Olney South, Calhoun Consolidated, Berryville Consolidated, Stringtown, Schnell and Amity South.
The Valmeyeran carbonates and Chester sands that carry the county, with the Ullin and St. Louis below; the 2026 permits are a Salem well at 3,300 feet and a Rosiclare injector.
Wherever your tract sits in Richland County, we will research it free and value it with the work shown.
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