Sullivan, Shelburn, Carlisle: we buy minerals and royalties throughout Sullivan County, coal country with shallow Shelburn Consolidated oil and the state's newest coalbed methane permits.
Sullivan County is coal first, oil a distant second, and gas in the coal a new third. The Bear Run mine is the largest surface mine in the eastern United States, the oil wells are 600 to 750 feet deep and have been since Shelburn was consolidated in 1959, and the only new permits are coalbed methane wells shallower than a water well. For a mineral owner the question is usually not what the wells make but which estate you actually inherited.
What produces here. Shallow oil from Shelburn Consolidated and Coalmont West in the Pennsylvanian sands, Ste. Genevieve, and Aux Vases, and 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 Magnum Harper Energy, which completed the J and J Burns 53I-15 and 63-15 oil wells at 710 feet and the Burns-Shew-Ridgeway injection well at 640 feet; Brandt B. Powell, converting Birdsong 3 to injection in Coalmont West in January 2026; Union Oil Investments, with 77 Indiana wells and a water supply conversion in Shelburn Consolidated in June 2025; Pioneer Oil, the state's largest operator at 341 wells, with the Blann and Son CBM completed at 250 feet; and Keyrock Energy, which permitted the Frey 1 coalbed methane well in January 2026 and the Springer 2 in the Sullivan South pool in February 2026 at 236 feet.
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.
Oil first recorded in 1913 and consolidated in 1959: Pennsylvanian sands and the Muscatatuck under the north end of the county, with wells to 650 to 750 feet. Coalmont West produces from the Ste. Genevieve and Aux Vases.
Gas from the coal seam at 230 to 250 feet. Keyrock Energy permitted Frey 1 in January 2026 and Springer 2 in the Sullivan South pool in February 2026, and Pioneer Oil completed Blann and Son CBM at 250 feet.
Wherever your tract sits in Sullivan County, we will research it free and value it with the work shown.
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