Bernalillo, Rio Rancho, Cuba: we buy minerals and royalties throughout Sandoval County, in the southern San Juan Basin Mancos oil play.
Sandoval County is where the San Juan Basin's second act is playing out. The Mancos and Gallup horizontal wells drilled south of Counselor since 2013 turned an old gas basin back into an oil basin, and the people with the most at stake are Navajo allottees and the families holding fee minerals around Cuba and Lybrook, most of whom have never had the arithmetic shown to them.
What produces here. Southern San Juan Basin oil, nearly all of it horizontal Mancos and Gallup. The play opened with Encana's Lybrook H36-2307 in Section 36, Township 23 North, Range 7 West, and the BLM's July 2025 reasonable development forecast says basin oil has tripled since 2013 with about 90 percent coming from the Mancos and Gallup subplay, 78 million barrels cumulative through January 2025, and future wells expected to be horizontal. MineralAnswers put the county at about 8,200 barrels of oil equivalent a day in May 2026, roughly 140,000 barrels and 649 million cubic feet for the month. Operators include DJR Operating (the Lybrook, North Alamito, Gallo Canyon and Venado Canyon units), Enduring Resources (South and West Escavada, South Lybrook), Logos Operating, Hilcorp, and Dugan Production. The BLM scheduled Notice of Staking onsites with DJR and Enduring on November 9, 2026 for a ten-well pad in Section 28, Township 25 North, Range 12 West, and with Hilcorp on November 10, 2026, so drilling is continuing into 2027.
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. If your interest is an allotment, we work through the BIA lease, the unit agreement and the Land Titles and Records Office in Albuquerque, where allotment title actually lives. Inherited it? Start with inherited mineral rights in New Mexico.
The horizontal play that tripled San Juan Basin oil since 2013, producing from the Gallup sandstone of the lower Mancos at about 5,100 to 5,400 feet around Lybrook and Counselor.
The basin's legacy gas, held by old units and paying small, long-lived royalties.
Four different mineral owners under one county, each with its own leasing office, royalty rate, and probate rules.
Wherever your tract sits in Sandoval County, we will research it free and value it with the work shown.
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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.