Cambridge, Byesville, Old Washington. Guernsey has the most permits of any county in Ohio and 107 wells that first produced since January 2023. If you own here, you own in the most active county in the state.
Guernsey County has the most permits of any county in Ohio: twenty approved in the last ninety days, ahead of Tuscarawas at sixteen and Belmont at fifteen. It has two of the state's nine active rigs, and 107 wells first produced here since January 2023, third most in Ohio.
If you own minerals in Guernsey, you own in the county where the industry is currently working.
Of those 107 recent wells, Ascent Resources drilled 41, Infinity Natural Resources 34, and EOG 29.
That three-way split is worth understanding, because it is unusual. Most Ohio counties are effectively one operator's story. Guernsey has three serious operators drilling simultaneously, which is the closest thing to competitive tension a mineral owner in this play gets.
The county's total producing well count, roughly 954, is led by Ascent with about 190, then OWS Acquisition with 103, Expand Energy with 91, Red Hill with 87, Diversified with 74 and Infinity with 73. Do not read that list as a ranking of who matters to you. The large legacy counts are mostly old shallow Clinton wells. Ascent, Infinity and EOG are the names that will decide what your Utica acreage is worth.
Guernsey sits in the Utica's condensate window. Wells here produce oil, condensate, NGLs and wet gas together, and those four streams price very differently from one another and very differently from dry gas.
This creates a specific and repeatable way for a Guernsey owner to be underpaid: a buyer runs a single gas price deck across the whole interest, the liquids get valued as though they were methane, and the resulting number looks defensible because nobody showed you the components.
So ask. From us or from anyone:
An offer that blends all of that into one figure is not a simpler offer. It is a less checkable one.
The most useful habit for a Guernsey owner is watching filings rather than news. Operators permit before they drill, always, and Ohio's permit records are public and free.
Twenty permits in ninety days means units are being assembled and drilled right now. If one of them touches your section, your interest is about to change in value, and the people mailing you offers will be working from a purchased list that has not caught up. We wrote up what the current statewide filings show in What the Ohio Permits Are Saying, and we list where to check Ohio records yourself on the well records page.
Ohio's Dormant Mineral Act and Marketable Title Act each give a surface owner a route to take a severed mineral interest, and the Ohio Supreme Court has confirmed both work. This is the most common way Ohio families lose minerals they believe they own, and it does not care how active the county is.
If nothing has been recorded in your name in decades, record a claim to preserve before you negotiate anything. We will pull your chain and tell you where you stand, free, whether or not you ever sell us anything. The Ohio mineral owner's guide explains both statutes plainly.
Well, rig, permit and operator counts are sourced from Enverus and current as of August 2026. Berlin Royalties is a mineral buyer and a landman shop in Tulsa, not a law firm or a tax advisor, and this page is general information rather than advice about your interest.
The liquids-rich middle of the play, where wells produce oil, condensate and wet gas together. This is why a Guernsey royalty should not be priced with dry-gas arithmetic, and why the NGL and condensate split in your statement matters so much here.
Ohio's old shallow oil, drilled across the county for decades and still producing. Most of Guernsey's roughly 954 producing wells are these rather than Utica horizontals.
Secondary shallow targets that appear in older Guernsey chains and occasionally in depth-severance language.
Wherever your tract sits in Guernsey County, we will research it free and value it with the work shown.
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