Independence, Coffeyville, Cherryvale: we buy minerals and royalties throughout Montgomery County, the heart of the Cherokee Basin coalbed methane play and its shallow Pennsylvanian oil.
Montgomery County is the center of the Cherokee Basin coalbed methane story, the one that started with Quest and Layne and is ending with the Kansas Corporation Commission plugging wells by the hundred. The gas is still there and still paying, just less of it every year, while the hundred-year-old oil leases around Coffeyville and Independence keep pumping along as if nothing happened.
What produces here. Kansas Geological Survey production for 2025: 2,013,641 Mcf of gas from 704 wells and 76,250 barrels of oil from 988 wells, and 861,733 Mcf and 31,273 barrels for January through June 2026. Gas was 4,385,761 Mcf from 1,183 wells in 2019, so the coalbed play has lost more than half its volume in six years, while oil has edged up from 58,867 barrels in 2021. The gas is Cherokee Basin Coal Area production from the Bevier, Weir-Pittsburg, Mulky and Riverton coals; the oil is Bartlesville and Marmaton from Jefferson-Sycamore, Wayside-Havana, Coffeyville-Cherryvale, Tyro, Brewster and Neodesha. RedBud Oil & Gas Operating holds most of the active leases, with Colt Energy, Endeavor Energy Resources, Finney Oil, River Rock Operating, Cunningham Crude, G & J Oil, John Horton and Kansas Gas Co. also on checks. The Kansas Corporation Commission plugged 361 orphaned Montgomery wells through September 2024 and lists a 430-well project for the federal formula-grant 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.
Gas from the Bevier, Weir-Pittsburg, Mulky and Riverton coals at 800 to 1,200 feet; the county's gas fell from 4.4 million Mcf in 2019 to 2.0 million in 2025 as hundreds of wells were plugged.
Jefferson-Sycamore (1903), Wayside-Havana (1904), Coffeyville-Cherryvale (1892) and Tyro: Bartlesville and Marmaton oil that is actually rising a little, 76,250 barrels in 2025 against 58,867 in 2021.
Wherever your tract sits in Montgomery 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.
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