Arnett, Shattuck, Gage: we buy minerals and royalties throughout Ellis County, in the Western Anadarko Basin.
Ellis County is quiet country with loud geology: horizontal Cherokee, Cleveland and Tonkawa wells have made its minerals genuinely valuable while the county stays off most buyers' maps. It leads the state in Cherokee drilling and almost nobody outside the operators knows it. Berlin has closed multi-county deals that included Ellis County interests.
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.
Ellis County is the clearest example in Oklahoma of a pattern owners are rarely told about, so we will be direct about it.
68 wells first produced in Ellis since January 2024, and Mewbourne Oil drilled 52 of them. SandRidge added 5 and Valpoint 4. That is a serious, concentrated development programme.
There is no rig in Ellis County today and no permit has been approved here in the last ninety days.
Both of those facts are true at once, and neither one on its own tells you what your minerals are worth. A buyer quoting you the drilling story is describing something that already happened. A buyer quoting you the current rig count is describing a pause.
What actually changed is this: if your tract sits under one of those 52 Mewbourne units, you have production history now, probably beginning in the last eighteen months. Anadarko wells decline steeply in their first year and then flatten into a long tail. An offer built on your best twelve months, arriving in the year right after your best twelve months, is precisely mistimed against you. It looks generous against a check that is already shrinking, and it quietly buys two decades of the flat part.
Ask any buyer to separate what they paid for existing production from what they paid for everything undrilled. Blended into one number, you cannot tell which one they got cheap.
Ellis sits in the Cherokee Shale trend with Roger Mills and Custer.
Ellis County is the single most active Cherokee county in Oklahoma. Roughly 127 Cherokee wells have been spudded here since 2020, more than 100 of them by Mewbourne Oil.
Horizontal oil development across the county's western tier, quietly productive for over a decade.
Deep basin gas that gives Ellis County interests a long producing tail.
Wherever your tract sits in Ellis County, we will research it free and value it with the work shown.
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