Pawhuska, Hominy, Fairfax: the one Oklahoma county where the entire mineral estate belongs to the Osage Nation and private mineral rights do not exist. If someone offered to buy your Osage minerals, read this first.
Osage County is the exception to everything else on this site, and it is worth a page precisely because so many owners here are approached by buyers who should know better.
Osage County has more wells drilled than any other Oklahoma county, roughly 43,130, and a production history reaching back to the earliest days of American oil. But the entire mineral estate underlying the county is held in trust for the Osage Nation under the Osage Allotment Act of 1906. Minerals here were never allotted to individuals the way surface was. Leasing is administered through the Osage Minerals Council and the Bureau of Indian Affairs rather than through the Oklahoma Corporation Commission.
So the honest answer to the question that brought most people to this page is: there are, in the ordinary sense, no private mineral rights to sell in Osage County. If someone has made you an offer on your Osage County minerals, ask them exactly what interest they believe you hold and how it is recorded. Very often the answer is that you own surface.
Headrights are a separate matter. A headright is a share in the Osage Mineral Estate created by the 1906 Act, paying a quarterly share of royalty and bonus income. Headrights are not ordinary mineral interests, their transfer is restricted by federal law, and the rules differ depending on whether the holder is of Osage Indian blood. We do not buy headrights, and anyone approaching you about one should be discussed with a lawyer experienced in Osage matters before you do anything.
What we can do is tell you, free, what the records actually show for your tract, including when the answer is that there is nothing here for us to buy. That happens often in this county and we would rather say it than waste your time.
If you own minerals in the surrounding counties, our Oklahoma page covers forced pooling, the Corporation Commission, and what those interests are worth.
A century of shallow production. Roughly 43,130 wells drilled here, the most of any Oklahoma county.
Legacy sands that made Osage County one of the earliest major producing areas in the United States.
Wherever your tract sits in Osage County, we will research it free and value it with the work shown.
Free, no obligation, and no pressure. We reply within one business day, usually faster.
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