Holdenville, Wetumka, Calvin, Stuart: one of the most heavily drilled counties in the Arkoma Basin, with roughly 1,300 wells still producing and more than 5,400 already plugged.
Hughes County is the second most drilled county in the Arkoma Basin, and its numbers tell the story better than any description: roughly 1,300 wells still producing, more than 5,400 already plugged and abandoned, and about 890 Arkoma Woodford wells layered over a century of shallow coal and sand production.
That combination produces the two problems we see most often here. Ownership is fragmented across many operators, so a single family's interest may generate several small checks from payors who have no idea the others exist. And title is deep, because minerals here have often passed through three or four generations without a probate being filed.
Whatever you own, producing royalties, non-producing acreage, or an inherited fraction split among cousins, we will identify it from whatever paperwork you have, value it off the actual wells and units rather than off a county average, 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.
Well counts sourced from Enverus. See our Arkoma Basin page for how the basin as a whole is valued, and Pittsburg County next door.
The county's main horizontal gas target, with roughly 890 Woodford wells drilled here. Gentle decline curves and very long producing lives, which is exactly the profile a multiple-of-last-year offer underprices.
Coalbed methane and the shallow Booch and McAlester sands that have been worked here since long before the Woodford. Small checks, but they count in a valuation and they are often the reason an old family interest is still on pay.
More wells have been plugged in Hughes County than are producing in most Oklahoma counties. That history means deep, tangled title, and it is where we do our best work.
Wherever your tract sits in Hughes County, we will research it free and value it with the work shown.
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