Boise City, Keyes, Kenton, Felt: we buy minerals and royalties throughout Cimarron County, at the far end of the Panhandle where the Keyes gas field and its helium plant sit.
Cimarron County is the end of the Panhandle, the only county in the country that touches five states, and it is the one place in Oklahoma where the gas is interesting for what rides along with it. The Keyes field, found in 1943, carried about 2 percent helium, among the richest helium gas anywhere, and the Bureau of Mines built a plant at Keyes in 1959 to pull it out for the space program. The field depleted, the federal plant closed in 1982, and a private plant has refined helium at Keyes since 1995.
What produces here. Small gas and oil across the Anadarko shelf, and helium at Keyes. The Oklahoma Historical Society puts the county's production between 1979 and 1993 at 7.4 million barrels of oil and 1.3 billion cubic feet of gas; today the state production data compiled by aggregators shows a couple of dozen operators reporting modest volumes, with BCE-Mach, Chaco Energy, Burk Royalty, Eiger Operating, Foundation Energy Management, Fossil Creek Energy and Agricultural Energy Services among the names on checks and in the county records. The Oklahoma Corporation Commission does not publish a simple monthly county total, so we describe it rather than quote a figure. The news in 2026 is the plant: Helix Exploration completed its purchase of the Keyes Helium Complex, one of six helium liquefiers in the country, for 11 million dollars, says it is running at capacity under take-or-pay and tolling contracts with several hundred miles of gathering line, and the Department of Energy designated helium a critical material in October 2026. That does not drill wells, but it keeps a market for Keyes gas that most stripper counties do not have.
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 Oklahoma.
Discovered in 1943 with about 2 percent helium in the gas, Keyes fed a federal helium plant from 1959 to 1982. The Keyes Helium Complex still runs, bought by Helix Exploration in 2026 and processing gas from the field and third parties.
Small vertical oil and gas wells across the county's Anadarko shelf, reporting under a couple of dozen operators, most of them on stripper rates.
Wherever your tract sits in Cimarron County, we will research it free and value it with the work shown.
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