Harrisburg, Eldorado, Carrier Mills: we buy minerals and royalties throughout Saline County, a coal county with the south edge of Dale Consolidated and the Eldorado and Harco fields underneath.
Saline County is a coal county that happens to have a little oil, and this page is not going to oversell the oil. The county produced 21,933 barrels in 2025, about a third of one percent of the state, and the ISGS database shows more plugged oil wells here than unplugged ones. What Saline County has in volume is permits for gas out of old mines, and what a mineral owner here needs most is someone to read the deed and say which of three estates the family actually kept.
What produces here. The Illinois Petroleum Resources Board puts Saline County at 21,933 barrels for calendar 2025, down slightly from 22,272 in 2024. The oil comes from the south edge of Dale Consolidated, shared with Franklin and Hamilton counties, and from Eldorado Consolidated, Harco, Raleigh, Long Branch, Francis Mills and the Omaha South and West fields on the Gallatin line, with pay in the Aux Vases, Ste. Genevieve, Cypress and McClosky; the ISGS database carries about 400 unplugged oil producer records here against 550 plugged. The oil operators in the county records include Campbell Energy of Carmi, Dee Drilling, Calvert Drilling and a number of individual owners, and Campbell is the only one permitting oil wells, two in 2025 and the Garner 2 to the St. Louis at 3,500 feet on September 24, 2026, in Township 7 South, Range 7 East. Everything else in the IDNR weekly permit logs is Keyrock Energy of Beckley, West Virginia: 17 coal mine methane permits in 2025 and 16 more in 2026 through late October, drilled a few hundred feet into the Herrin and Springfield coals in the old mine workings northwest of Harrisburg, gas from abandoned mines rather than oil wells.
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 south edge of Dale Consolidated, shared with Franklin and Hamilton counties, plus Eldorado Consolidated, Harco, Raleigh, Long Branch, Francis Mills and the Omaha South and West fields on the Gallatin line.
Saline County oil wells bottom in the Aux Vases, Ste. Genevieve, Cypress and McClosky and the other Chester sands; Campbell's 2025 and 2026 permits went to the St. Louis at 3,500 feet.
Most of the permits here are not oil wells. Keyrock Energy drilled 33 coal mine methane permits into the Herrin and Springfield coals in 2025 and 2026, gas from abandoned mines, owned by whoever holds the coal and gas estate.
Wherever your tract sits in Saline County, we will research it free and value it with the work shown.
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