# Sell Mississippi Lime Mineral Rights | Woods, Alfalfa, Garfield, Grant OK, Barber KS | Berlin Royalties > Sell Mississippi Lime mineral rights in Woods, Alfalfa, Garfield, Grant, Kay and Noble County Oklahoma and Barber and Harper County Kansas. 7,033 producing wells, what the boom left behind, and honest valuation. Source: https://www.berlinroyalties.com/oklahoma/mississippi-lime/ Publisher: Berlin Royalties, a veteran-owned oil and gas mineral and royalty buyer in Tulsa, Oklahoma, buying for its own account since 2014. Call or text 918-984-1645. License: free to quote and cite with attribution to Berlin Royalties and a link to the source URL. Where We Buy · Oklahoma & Kansas · Mississippi Lime ## Sell your Mississippi Lime mineral rights. Between 2011 and 2014 the Mississippi Lime was the most hyped play in the country and lease bonuses in Woods, Alfalfa and Grant County reached numbers nobody had seen before. Then it collapsed. 7,033 wells are still producing, and the owners who leased at the top have heard nothing since. [Get a Free Valuation](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/free-valuation/) or call or text [918-984-1645](tel:9189841645) For about three years the Mississippi Lime was the most talked about play in the United States. Lease bonuses in Woods, Alfalfa and Grant County reached levels northern Oklahoma had never seen. Then the thesis failed, the operators left, and the coverage stopped completely. **7,033 wells are still producing.** | County | Producing wells | | **Woods, OK** | 1,283 || **Alfalfa, OK** | 1,108 || **Garfield, OK** | 697 || Barber, KS | 495 || Kay, OK | 334 || Ness, KS | 321 || Grant, OK | 315 || Harper, KS | 314 | ## Why it failed, and why that matters to your valuation The play was drilled on the idea that a cheap horizontal well in a shallow weathered carbonate would behave like shale. It did not. These wells produce enormous volumes of **water** alongside the oil, and the cost of lifting and disposing of that water broke the economics at scale. That history matters for one practical reason: it means your interest should be valued as a **producing stream**, not as an option on drilling that is not coming. Any buyer implying otherwise is selling you a story from 2012. ## The 2012 bonus is not a valuation This is the most common way owners here misjudge their position, so we want to be direct about it. A lease bonus paid in 2012 reflected competitive leasing during a land rush. It was a payment for the *right to drill*, made at a moment when several well funded companies were racing each other for acreage. Most of those companies no longer exist in the same form. What your minerals are worth today is what the production under them is worth, plus whatever undrilled potential genuinely remains. That is a real number. It will not resemble the boom, and an honest buyer should show you how they got there rather than leaving you to compare their offer against a memory. ## The part that is genuinely underexplored Beneath parts of Alfalfa, Grant and Garfield County, the **Woodford Shale** is a separate target that was never fully developed while everyone was chasing the Mississippian above it. Whether you hold those depths, and whether a shallow producing well is holding them by production, is worth establishing before you price anything. It is the one place in this play where undrilled value is a real consideration rather than wishful thinking. ## If your lease expired, you did not lose anything A great many Mississippi Lime leases signed in the boom expired with no well ever drilled. Both Oklahoma and Kansas recognize perpetual mineral ownership. An expired lease returns the leasing rights to you; it does not touch your ownership. Those owners are **unleased mineral owners**, not former mineral owners, and unleased acreage is a legitimate asset to sell or to keep. ## Check your deductions These wells produce a great deal of water, and lifting and disposal are expensive. Ordinarily those are production costs borne by the operator rather than post-production expenses chargeable against your royalty, and Oklahoma law is comparatively protective here. If your statement shows deductions you do not understand, send it to us. We will tell you what every line is, free, and if we think something is wrong we will tell you that too. See the [royalty statement decoder](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/royalty-statement-decoder/) and [royalty payment laws by state](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/royalty-payment-laws/). ## Where to go next - [Woods](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/oklahoma/woods-county/), [Alfalfa](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/oklahoma/alfalfa-county/) and [Garfield](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/oklahoma/garfield-county/) Counties in Oklahoma - [Barber](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/kansas/barber-county/) and [Harper](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/kansas/harper-county/) Counties in Kansas - [The Hugoton Field](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/kansas/hugoton/) in southwest Kansas - [Oklahoma mineral rights](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/oklahoma/) and [forced pooling in Oklahoma](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/forced-pooling-oklahoma/) - [Lease my minerals](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/lease-my-minerals/), if your lease expired and you are unleased - [How mineral rights are valued](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/mineral-rights-value/) and [when not to sell](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/when-not-to-sell/) Well counts are sourced from Enverus and current as of August 2026. Berlin Royalties is a mineral buyer and a landman shop in Tulsa, not a law firm or a tax advisor, and this page is general information rather than advice about your interest. Drilling Activity · Updated 2026-08-17 ## What's happening in Mississippi Lime right now Active Rigs 55 In the counties where we buy. Permits, Last 90 Days 216 New drilling permits in our counties. Completions, Last 90 Days 4 New wells turned to sales. Statewide totals for Mississippi Lime. Source: Enverus, as of 2026-08-17. Rigs are currently active; permits are those approved in the last 90 days; completions are wells reporting first production in the last 90 days, which lags reporting by state. Activity like this moves mineral value. If it is happening near you, find out what your interest is worth before you take anyone's offer. Formations & Plays ## What is under a Mississippi Lime tract ### Mississippian Lime and Chat A weathered Mississippian carbonate with a porous chert zone on top. Horizontally drilled at scale from 2011, with high water production that turned out to be the play's undoing economically. Still producing across northern Oklahoma and southern Kansas. ### Woodford Shale The source rock below the Mississippian. In parts of Alfalfa, Grant and Garfield County the Woodford is a genuine separate target, and on some acreage it has never been drilled. ### Hunton and Arbuckle The deeper carbonates. The Arbuckle in particular matters here for an unusual reason: it is the disposal zone for the enormous volumes of produced water these wells make. ### Shallow Chester and Cherokee sands Older conventional production across the same counties, long predating the horizontal play, and still the source of many older royalty checks in the area. Counties ## Where we're most active [Woods County](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/oklahoma/woods-county/) [Alfalfa County](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/oklahoma/alfalfa-county/) [Garfield County](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/oklahoma/garfield-county/) [Barber County, Kansas](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/kansas/barber-county/) [Harper County, Kansas](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/kansas/harper-county/) Grant Kay Noble Ness Kingman Woods County has the most producing Mississippi Lime wells at roughly 1,283, then Alfalfa at 1,108, Garfield at 697, Barber County Kansas at 495, Kay at 334, Ness at 321, Grant at 315 and Harper County Kansas at 314. ### The Oklahoma mineral owner's guide Everything a Oklahoma 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 Oklahoma guide](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/guide/oklahoma/) [Every oil and gas operator in Oklahoma](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/operators/oklahoma/), with contact information, refreshed from the state regulator. Free to search, and useful whether or not you ever sell anything. Questions ## Straight answers for Mississippi Lime owners What happened to the Mississippi Lime? It was drilled on a thesis that did not hold. Between roughly 2011 and 2014 operators leased aggressively across northern Oklahoma and southern Kansas, paying bonuses that were extraordinary for the area, on the expectation that a cheap horizontal well in a shallow carbonate would work like the shale plays elsewhere. The wells produced enormous volumes of water alongside the oil, and the cost of lifting and disposing of that water made the economics fail at scale. Several of the companies that led the play no longer exist in the same form. What is left is 7,033 producing wells and a lot of owners who leased at the top and have heard nothing since. I got a big lease bonus in 2012. Does that tell me what my minerals are worth now? No, and holding onto that number is the single most common reason Mississippi Lime owners misjudge their position. A 2012 bonus reflected competitive leasing during a land rush that has not existed for over a decade. Your minerals today are worth what the actual production under them is worth, plus whatever undrilled potential genuinely remains, which in most of this play is modest. That is a real number and frequently not a trivial one, but it will not resemble the boom. We would rather show you the arithmetic than let you compare our offer to a memory. Is anything still being drilled here? Very little, and we will not dress it up. The counties at the heart of the play carry no meaningful current rig activity. What that means practically is that your interest should be valued as a producing stream rather than as an option on future drilling. Where it gets more interesting is the Woodford beneath parts of Alfalfa, Grant and Garfield County, which is a genuinely separate target that was never fully developed. Whether you hold those depths, and whether they are held by production from a shallower well, is worth establishing. Do I still own my minerals if the lease expired? Yes. Oklahoma and Kansas both recognize perpetual mineral ownership, so an expired oil and gas lease returns the leasing rights to you and does not affect your ownership at all. A great many Mississippi Lime leases signed in the boom expired without a well ever being drilled, and those owners are now unleased mineral owners rather than former mineral owners. Unleased non-producing acreage is a legitimate asset, though it should be priced for what it is rather than for what the 2012 market thought it was. My check is tiny and the water disposal costs are huge. Am I paying for those? You should not be, and it is worth checking. Post-production costs are a genuine issue on royalty statements, but lifting and water disposal are ordinarily production costs borne by the operator rather than deductible post-production expenses, and Oklahoma law is relatively protective on this point compared with some states. If your statement shows deductions you do not understand, send it to us. We will read it and tell you what each line is, free, whether or not you ever sell us anything. Do you buy in southern Kansas as well as northern Oklahoma? Yes, both sides, and the same play crosses the line into Barber, Harper, Kingman and Ness County, Kansas. Kansas gets even less buyer attention than northern Oklahoma does, so owners there frequently receive nothing at all. We have no minimum interest size and we will research a Kansas tract with the same work as an Oklahoma one. 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