Newark, Heath, Pataskala, Johnstown, Utica: we buy minerals and royalties throughout Licking County, Clinton country at the Utica's western edge.
Licking County is where central Ohio's suburbs meet the oil patch. Newark and Pataskala are growing toward Columbus while the townships east of them still carry hundreds of Clinton wells on farms that have had the same lease since the Carter administration. If you inherited a fraction here, the first job is finding out whether the well still runs and whether your name is on anything recorded in the last forty years.
What produces here. ODNR's 2025 annual production report shows 96,448 barrels of oil and 425,413 Mcf of gas from Licking County, with 1,352 wells reporting and 929 producing, none of them horizontal. Knox Energy had 185 producing wells and made 144,209 Mcf; David R Hill made 13,236 barrels from 20 wells, the most oil of any operator; and Diversified Production, Artex Oil, Kenoil, OWS Acquisition, Buckeye Oil Producing and a long list of individual operators fill out the checks. ODNR's 2026 quarterly horizontal report lists no Licking County wells, and no 2025 or 2026 Utica permits in the county appear in the ODNR reports we opened.
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 Ohio.
Newark's glass industry grew on local natural gas in the late 1800s, and the county still has about 930 producing conventional wells, 185 of them Knox Energy's.
The village of Utica is in Licking County; the shale is named after Utica, New York. ODNR's 2026 quarterly horizontal report lists no producing Utica wells here.
Wherever your tract sits in Licking County, we will research it free and value it with the work shown.
We buy in every Ohio county, including ones without a page here. See the full county index, or start with how to sell Ohio 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 Ohio, what heirs should do.
What Ohio mineral rights are worth, information only, with this month's activity. Unclaimed Ohio royalties: where the money goes and how an heir claims it.
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