# Sell Mineral Rights in Gibson County, IN | Berlin Royalties > Sell Gibson County, Indiana mineral rights: Griffin, Warrenton East and coalbed methane near Princeton and Owensville. Free valuation, work shown. Source: https://www.berlinroyalties.com/indiana/gibson-county/ Publisher: Berlin Royalties, a veteran-owned oil and gas mineral and royalty buyer in Tulsa, Oklahoma, buying for its own account since 2014. Call or text 918-984-1645. License: free to quote and cite with attribution to Berlin Royalties and a link to the source URL. Where We Buy · Indiana · Gibson County ## Sell your Gibson County mineral rights. Princeton, Owensville, Fort Branch: we buy minerals and royalties throughout Gibson County, where the Griffin discovery of 1938 opened southwest Indiana and the coalbed methane permits land today. [Get a Free Valuation](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/free-valuation/) or call or text [918-984-1645](tel:9189841645) Gibson County is where Indiana's modern oil industry started, in the Griffin pool along the Wabash in 1938, and it is still one of the two counties where a drilling rig is a normal sight. It is also coal country, which matters for minerals: the Toyota plant and the Gibson Generating Station are the big employers, but under the farms the coal, the oil and gas, and now the gas in the coal are often three different estates owned by three different families. **What produces here.** Oil from Griffin Consolidated, Warrenton East, West Fork Consolidated, Owensville North Consolidated, Princeton North Consolidated, Union Bowman Consolidated, Patoka East Consolidated, and Mt. Carmel Consolidated, in Pennsylvanian sands and the Mississippian Cypress, Tar Springs, Big Clifty, Aux Vases, Ste. Genevieve, Salem, Warsaw, and Borden, plus shallow coalbed methane from the Springfield V coal. Indiana publishes production only statewide, not by county: the Division of Oil and Gas reported 115,486 barrels and 239,449 Mcf for July 2026 and 1,315,471 barrels and 2,887,306 Mcf for all of 2025. The operators you will see on checks and in the county records include Nichols Operating, which completed Hardinman-Kolb Unit 3 in July 2025 and John Braselton and Bellamy and Kerns in June 2026 and is converting Margaret Kolb wells to injection in Owensville North; Moore Engineering, Hartman Farms 3 completed at 3,057 feet in August 2025; Citation Oil and Gas, Maier 18X-12 completed at 3,885 feet in January 2026; Indian Black Water, Quantum Exploration, Southern Triangle, Trey Exploration, Ungetheim Production, and Jackson Oil, whose Kieffer-Spurlin 72 was a 4,180-foot Trenton dry hole. The newest activity is gas: Keyrock Energy permitted Jones, Hirsch, and four Sensmeier coalbed methane wells between December 2025 and July 2026 and completed Princeton Farms 1 at 406 feet, and Pioneer Oil, the state's largest operator with 341 wells, permitted MFH CBM and Horrall CBM in July 2026. Eight of the nine permits Indiana issued that month were in Gibson 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 Indiana](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/inherited-mineral-rights/indiana/). Formations & Plays ## What produces here ### Griffin Consolidated and the Gibson oil fields Griffin, discovered along the Wabash in 1938, plus Warrenton East (1950), West Fork Consolidated (1958), Owensville North, Princeton North, Union Bowman, Patoka East, and Mt. Carmel Consolidated: Pennsylvanian sands and the Mississippian Big Clifty, Cypress, Tar Springs, Aux Vases, Ste. Genevieve, and Salem at 1,000 to 3,000 feet. ### Springfield V coal, coalbed methane Shallow gas wells to about 400 to 650 feet in the Springfield coal, the one place in Indiana where a new gas permit still shows up. Keyrock Energy and Pioneer Oil permitted nine of them in Gibson between December 2025 and July 2026. Counties ## Communities we see in Gibson County title Princeton Owensville Fort Branch Haubstadt Oakland City Wherever your tract sits in Gibson County, we will research it free and value it with the work shown. 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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 Indiana, what heirs should do](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/inherited-mineral-rights/indiana/). [What Indiana mineral rights are worth](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/mineral-rights-value/indiana/), information only, with this month's activity. [Unclaimed Indiana royalties](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/unclaimed-royalties/indiana/): where the money goes and how an heir claims it. ### The Indiana mineral owner's guide Everything a Indiana 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 Indiana guide](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/guide/indiana/) Questions ## Straight answers for Gibson County owners What are mineral rights worth in Gibson County? It depends on the wells and units actually touching your tract, their decline, and your decimal, and in Gibson County that ranges from an 80-year-old Griffin royalty to a waterflood unit to a shallow coalbed methane lease, so county averages mislead. Indiana publishes production only statewide, so your check stubs and division orders are the record. We value off the actual wells and activity and show the work, free. Can my Gibson County mineral rights expire? Yes. Under the Dormant Mineral Interest Act, Indiana Code 32-23-10, a severed mineral interest unused for 20 years is extinguished and reverts to the surface owner, with no advance notice required; the U.S. Supreme Court upheld it in Texaco v. Short in 1982. Use means production, rentals or royalties paid, taxes paid, pooled use, or a statement of claim recorded with the Gibson County Recorder before the 20 years run. Gibson has a lot of severed minerals under coal company and farm land that have not been leased in decades, which is exactly where the statute bites. We check the dormant mineral record before we quote a number. I have a coalbed methane lease in Gibson County. Who owns that gas? It depends on how the coal and the minerals were severed in your chain of title, and Gibson deeds often split the coal from the oil and gas decades ago. The coalbed methane wells here are shallow, 400 to 650 feet in the Springfield V coal, and the gas royalty follows whichever estate the deed language assigns it to. We read the deeds, not the family story, and tell you what you own before we talk price. What does it cost me to sell? Nothing. Berlin pays all title work, document preparation, and recording costs. The offer you accept is the amount you receive. ## Before you sign anything in Gibson County The things owners here most often wish they had read first. All free, none of it gated. - [How mineral rights are valued](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/mineral-rights-value/), including the rule of thumb people quote and why it is usually wrong - [Selling mineral rights](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/sell-mineral-rights/) and [selling oil and gas royalties](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/sell-oil-and-gas-royalties/), with the real process and timeline - [The Pugh clause](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/pugh-clause/), the single most valuable sentence you can negotiate into a lease - [What a farm out is](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/farmout-agreements/), and why your operator suddenly changed - [The rule of capture](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/rule-of-capture/), and why a neighbor's well can legally drain your minerals - [Non-participating royalty interests](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/non-participating-royalty-interest/), if your deed carved one out - [Executive rights](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/executive-rights/), if somebody else signs the lease that binds your minerals - [Surface owner rights](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/surface-owner-rights/), if you own the ground and someone else owns what is under it - [Questions to ask a buyer](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/questions-to-ask/) and [what happens if you want out after signing](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/can-i-back-out-of-a-mineral-rights-sale/) Free Valuation ## Find out what your Gibson County minerals are worth. Free, no obligation, and no pressure. We reply within one business day, usually faster. Prefer the phone? Call or text [918-984-1645](tel:9189841645) 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](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/text-your-check/) to [918-984-1645](tel:9189841645) and our [preliminary offer](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/preliminary-offer/) puts a written number in front of you within about two business days. It holds for 7 while you decide. Your Name Phone Number Email Address Where are your minerals located? 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