Roswell, Dexter, Hagerman: an unusual county where the two largest operators are helium producers rather than oil companies.
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.
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.
The conventional oil section along the county's southern reaches, tied to the northern shelf of the Permian.
Shallow oil across the eastern side.
Wherever your tract sits in Chaves County, we will research it free and value it with the work shown.
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.