Sell Mineral Rights in Chaves County, New Mexico

Name: Berlin Royalties
Address: Tulsa, OK, 74101, US
Telephone: 918-984-1645

Chaves County is the most unusual county in New Mexico for a mineral owner. IACX Energy and Desert Mountain Energy are helium producers, and helium is priced and marketed on a completely different basis from oil and gas: contracts rather than posted prices, and a much smaller set of buyers. If your Chaves County lease covers helium or other non-hydrocarbon gases, that is worth reading carefully, because a lot of older leases are ambiguous about whether they reach it at all. We buy helium royalties and we are one of very few buyers who will quote one.

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 units rather than off a county average, 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.

Well, rig and permit counts are sourced from Enverus and current as of August 2026. See our Permian Basin page for how the play as a whole is valued.

What produces here

Helium and non-hydrocarbon gas

Chaves County is one of the few places in the United States with a genuine helium industry. The two largest operators here are helium companies, not oil companies.

Permo-Pennsylvanian and Abo

The conventional oil section along the county's southern reaches, tied to the northern shelf of the Permian.

San Andres

Shallow oil across the eastern side.

Straight answers for Chaves County owners

What are mineral rights worth in Chaves County?

It turns on your section rather than on the county. Chaves County has roughly 1,565 producing wells, 9 permits approved in the last 90 days, and the difference between a tract inside an active unit and a quiet tract is large. Send what you have and we will tell you which one you own, with the arithmetic shown, free.

Who operates in Chaves County?

The largest producing positions belong to IACX Energy with roughly 504 producing wells, Solis Partners with roughly 384 producing wells, Desert Mountain Energy with roughly 180 producing wells. That matters more than owners expect: each operator has its own check schedule, its own suspense practices, and its own appetite for drilling, and a family interest here frequently sits under more than one of them. Our operator directory has contact information for each.

Do you buy small or inherited fractional interests?

Yes. Inherited fractions are a specialty, including the small interests other buyers ignore, and we cure title problems at our cost. There is no minimum.

Before you sign anything in Chaves County

The things owners here most often wish they had read first. All free, none of it gated.

How mineral rights are valued, including the rule of thumb people quote and why it is usually wrong

Selling mineral rights and selling oil and gas royalties, with the real process and timeline

The Pugh clause, the single most valuable sentence you can negotiate into a lease

What a farm out is, and why your operator suddenly changed

The rule of capture, and why a neighbor's well can legally drain your minerals

Non-participating royalty interests, if your deed carved one out

Executive rights, if somebody else signs the lease that binds your minerals

Surface owner rights, if you own the ground and someone else owns what is under it

Questions to ask a buyer and what happens if you want out after signing

Find out what your Chaves 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 and you will get Stephen, the owner, not a call center. If we miss you, we text back the same day.

In a hurry? Our preliminary offer puts a written number in front of you within about two business days and holds it still for 7 while you decide.

Sell your Chaves County mineral rights.