# Sell Mineral Rights in Portage County, OH | Berlin Royalties

> Berlin Royalties buys Portage County, OH minerals: Clinton oil and gas, 1,900 producing wells, around Ravenna and Kent. Free valuation with the work shown.

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Where We Buy · Ohio · Portage County

## Sell your Portage County mineral rights.

Ravenna, Kent, Streetsboro, Aurora, Garrettsville: we buy minerals and royalties throughout Portage County, Clinton oil and gas country north of the Utica.

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Portage County is suburban Akron on one side and Clinton oil country on the other, and the two overlap more than the subdivisions suggest. More than 2,200 wells report to ODNR from here, about 1,900 of them producing, which makes Portage one of the most consistently paying conventional counties in Ohio and one where a lot of royalty owners live within a few miles of their well without knowing where it is.

**What produces here.** ODNR's 2025 annual production report shows 175,558 barrels of oil and 2,298,786 Mcf of gas from Portage County, with 2,219 wells reporting and 1,899 producing. Diversified Production had 495 producing wells and made 40,849 barrels and 647,763 Mcf; OWS Acquisition 468 wells and 37,207 barrels; and Pin Oak Energy Partners, PEP Drilling, Equity Oil and Gas Funds, Bocor Holdings, Everflow Eastern and Beck Oil and Gas fill out the checks. The county's three horizontal wells, Holbrook's Soinski 99-04-06 201 and 202 in Windham Township and Northwood Energy's Asher in Rootstown Township, together reported 303 barrels and 39,863 Mcf in the second quarter of 2026. No 2025 or 2026 Utica permits in Portage 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](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/inherited-mineral-rights/ohio/).

Formations & Plays

## What produces here

### Clinton sandstone

Portage County made 175,558 barrels of oil and 2.3 million Mcf in 2025 from about 1,900 conventional wells. Diversified and OWS Acquisition each run roughly 500 of them.

### Utica and Point Pleasant, northern fringe

Three early horizontals, Holbrook's two Soinski wells in Windham Township and Northwood's Asher well in Rootstown, have produced since 2013. ODNR's 2026 quarterly report shows no newer Utica wells in the county.

Counties

## Communities we see in Portage County title

Ravenna

Kent

Streetsboro

Aurora

Garrettsville

Windham

Wherever your tract sits in Portage County, we will research it free and value it with the work shown.

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We buy in every Ohio county, including ones without a page here. See the [full county index](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/counties/), or start with how to [sell Ohio mineral rights](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/ohio/).

### Inherited Ohio minerals?

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](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/inherited-mineral-rights/ohio/).

[What Ohio mineral rights are worth](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/mineral-rights-value/ohio/), information only, with this month's activity. [Unclaimed Ohio royalties](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/unclaimed-royalties/ohio/): where the money goes and how an heir claims it.

### The Ohio mineral owner's guide

Everything a Ohio owner needs in one place: who owns what under state law, how royalties must be paid and by when, what a buyer can and cannot deduct, the tax treatment of a sale, and the deadlines that quietly cost people their minerals. Free, and no sign-up.

[Read the Ohio guide](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/guide/ohio/)

Questions

## Straight answers for Portage County owners

What are mineral rights worth in Portage County?
On the Clinton well, and Portage Clinton wells are better than average for Ohio: oily, numerous, and mostly still producing. A fraction under Diversified, OWS Acquisition, Pin Oak or PEP Drilling is priced off that well's actual history. The three 2013 Utica horizontals in Windham and Rootstown are small gas wells, not a reason to add a shale premium. We value off the actual wells and show the work, free.

Can I lose Ohio mineral rights I have not done anything with?
Yes, two ways, and neither needs a court. Under the Dormant Mineral Act, R.C. 5301.56, a surface owner can reclaim a severed mineral interest that has had no saving event in 20 years by serving notice, and you then have 60 days to record a claim to preserve. Under the Marketable Title Act, 40 years after the surface owner's root of title with no recorded saving event, the interest can be extinguished with no notice at all; the Ohio Supreme Court confirmed in West v. Bode (2020) that both routes apply. If nothing has been recorded in your name in decades, record a claim to preserve before you do anything else.

How long does an Ohio operator have to pay my royalty?
There is no Ohio statute setting a royalty payment deadline or late-payment interest for private leases; the lease governs. Separately, royalties and mineral proceeds that go unpaid or unclaimed are presumed abandoned after one year under Ohio law and are turned over to the Division of Unclaimed Funds, the shortest dormancy period in the country, so a search there under a deceased relative's name is often the first place to look for a missing check.

What does it cost me to sell?
Nothing. Berlin pays all title work, document preparation, and recording costs. The offer you accept is the amount you receive.

## Before you sign anything in Portage County

The things owners here most often wish they had read first. All free, none of it gated.

- [How mineral rights are valued](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/mineral-rights-value/), including the rule of thumb people quote and why it is usually wrong

- [How to sell mineral rights](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/sell-mineral-rights/) and [how to sell oil and gas royalties](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/sell-oil-and-gas-royalties/), with the real process and timeline

- [Who buys mineral rights](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/who-buys-mineral-rights/), the five kinds of buyer compared, and [the companies that buy mineral rights](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/mineral-buyers/) and how to check them

- [The Pugh clause](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/pugh-clause/), the single most valuable sentence you can negotiate into a lease

- [What a farm out is](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/farmout-agreements/), and why your operator suddenly changed

- [The rule of capture](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/rule-of-capture/), and why a neighbor's well can legally drain your minerals

- [Non-participating royalty interests](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/non-participating-royalty-interest/), if your deed carved one out

- [Executive rights](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/executive-rights/), if somebody else signs the lease that binds your minerals

- [Surface owner rights](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/surface-owner-rights/), if you own the ground and someone else owns what is under it

- [Questions to ask a buyer](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/questions-to-ask/) and [what happens if you want out after signing](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/can-i-back-out-of-a-mineral-rights-sale/)

Free Valuation

## Find out what your Portage County minerals are worth.

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In a hurry? [Text a photo of a royalty check stub](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/text-your-check/) to [918-984-1645](tel:9189841645) and our [preliminary offer](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/preliminary-offer/) puts a written number in front of you within about two business days. It holds for 7 while you decide.

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