Oberlin, Norcatur, Jennings: we buy minerals and royalties throughout Decatur County, Lansing-Kansas City oil in a hundred small fields along the Nebraska line.
Decatur County is Oberlin and a hundred small Lansing-Kansas City fields that the 1950s drillers found one structure at a time. Murfin Drilling operates more of them than anyone, production has been steadier than most of the state, and the royalties are spread across a lot of families who left for Denver and Kansas City a generation ago.
What produces here. Kansas Geological Survey production for 2025: 172,615 barrels of oil from 163 wells, and 84,012 barrels from 153 wells for January through June 2026; the county has never reported gas. Oil ran between 190,575 and 205,927 barrels a year from 2019 through 2024. It is Lansing-Kansas City oil almost entirely, with Shawnee and Howard limestone at Jennings, from Lawson Northeast, Jennings, Blees, Lester, Monaghan North, May, Adell Northwest and Vavroch. Operators on checks and in the county records include Murfin Drilling, BlueRidge Petroleum, Adeco, Bach Oil Production, Great Plains Energy, Cholla Production, Platte Valley Oil, Green Oilfield Production, StrataKan Exploration and Vess Oil. The Kansas Corporation Commission plugged 8 orphaned Decatur wells under the federal initial grant through September 2024 and lists a 29-well District 4 project covering Decatur, Thomas, Barton, Ellis, Graham and Trego for the next round.
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 Kansas.
Adell Northwest (1952), Vavroch (1960), Warner (1956), Pollnow (1953), Jorn (1955) and Blees (1969): more than a hundred small structural fields, almost all of them Lansing-Kansas City, with Murfin Drilling on most of them.
Jennings (1951) produces from the Wabaunsee, Shawnee and Lansing; Decatur has never reported gas.
Wherever your tract sits in Decatur County, we will research it free and value it with the work shown.
We buy in every Kansas county, including ones without a page here. See the full county index, or start with how to sell Kansas mineral rights.
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 Kansas, what heirs should do.
What Kansas mineral rights are worth, information only, with this month's activity.
Everything a Kansas 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 Kansas guideEvery oil and gas operator in Kansas, with contact information, refreshed from the state regulator. Free to search, and useful whether or not you ever sell anything.
The things owners here most often wish they had read first. All free, none of it gated.
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Prefer the phone? Call or text 918-984-1645 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 to 918-984-1645 and our preliminary offer puts a written number in front of you within about two business days. It holds for 7 while you decide.