Zanesville, Dresden, New Concord, Duncan Falls: we buy minerals and royalties throughout Muskingum County, on the western fringe of the Utica.
Muskingum County has produced gas and oil for well over a century, and the county records show it: thousands of old wells, hundreds of small operators, and a lot of severed mineral deeds that nobody has recorded against in forty years. Zanesville is where the Utica turns into ordinary Clinton country, which is a less exciting thing to own and a more common one.
What produces here. ODNR's 2025 annual production report shows 53,935 barrels of oil and 1,355,326 Mcf of gas from Muskingum County, with 2,077 wells reporting and 1,165 producing. Artex Oil's 26 producing wells made 338,445 Mcf, the most gas of any operator here, and the names you will see on checks also include Cameron Production, Diversified Production, Knox Energy, J D Gas and Oil, Northwood Energy and Pin Oak Energy Partners. EOG Resources' Meigs-MU-23SE 1HPA in Meigs Township, first produced in February 2021, is the county's only producing horizontal: 230,182 Mcf in 2025, then 3,981 Mcf over five days in the second quarter of 2026. ODNR's 2026 quarterly report shows no new horizontal wells online in the county.
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.
Roughly 2,000 wells report to ODNR from Muskingum County, most of them small conventional gas and oil wells run by Cameron Production, Diversified, Knox Energy and a dozen smaller names.
EOG Resources holds two horizontal wells in Meigs Township. One has been shut in since 2012 and the other, first produced in 2021, made 230,182 Mcf in 2025 and almost nothing in the second quarter of 2026.
Wherever your tract sits in Muskingum 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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