Morton, Whiteface, Bledsoe: we buy minerals and royalties throughout Cochran County, the western end of the Slaughter and Levelland fields.
Cochran County is the far west end of the Slaughter and Levelland fields and it gets the thin end of them. Morton has been an oil town since the San Andres came in, but the units out here were always less productive than the ones around Levelland, and the county has settled into a long, quiet decline with no new drilling to speak of. The owners are mostly heirs of the farm families who leased in the 1940s, and the checks are small enough that a lot of buyers will not bother. We will.
What produces here. Slaughter and Levelland, which together made about 110,000 of the county's 136,982 barrels in August 2026, plus the Cochran (San Andres) field, which carries most of the county's gas, and Buckshot, Cochran (Devonian), and Moncrief-Masten (Devonian). Railroad Commission production for July 2026: 135,913 barrels of oil and 152,780 Mcf of gas. The operators you will see on checks and in the county records include Hilcorp Energy, Manzano, Occidental Permian EOR, Aviator Energy, A.C.T. Operating, Burk Royalty, and CTOC Energy. Drilling is idle: the Commission shows no new-drill permits approved in Cochran County in 2026 through early November, and a single Manzano horizontal approved in August 2025 before that.
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 Texas.
The two San Andres giants cross the Hockley line into Cochran, where the western parts of both fields have always been less productive than the eastern.
Manzano's Cochran San Andres field produces most of the county's gas, with a deeper Devonian pool beneath it.
Wherever your tract sits in Cochran County, we will research it free and value it with the work shown.
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In a hurry? Text a photo of a royalty check stub to 918-984-1645 and our preliminary offer puts a written number in front of you within about two business days. It holds for 7 while you decide.