Van Horn: the far western Delaware Basin, where three rigs are drilling four separate Wolfcamp and Bone Spring benches under a county with very few wells by Permian standards.
Culberson County is the far western edge of the Delaware Basin, and its numbers look unusual for the Permian: roughly 1,598 producing wells out of about 6,009 drilled, which is small, against three active rigs and 24 permits approved in the last 90 days, which is not.
That ratio is the whole point. In a county with relatively little existing production and real current drilling, the majority of what an interest is worth sits in undrilled locations rather than in the check you are receiving now. An offer computed as a multiple of current royalty income is more likely to be badly wrong in Culberson than in almost any county in Texas.
Recent drilling has targeted Wolfcamp A lower, Wolfcamp A upper, 3rd Bone Spring, and Wolfcamp C as separate benches. Devon, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, and Capitan Energy are the largest producing operators. We count the benches individually, state the probability we applied to each, and show you the work.
Before any of that, establish what you own. Far West Texas has a meaningful share of state and institutional land ownership, and an interest derived from a state lease is not the same asset as a fee mineral interest and does not convey the same way. We make that determination free.
Texas legal descriptions run on abstracts and surveys, there is no general forced pooling, and there is no state income tax, so nothing is withheld at closing.
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Two separately developed benches and the primary current targets.
Developed alongside the Wolfcamp across the county.
A deeper bench being drilled in parts of Culberson, and one that rarely appears in an offer.
Wherever your tract sits in Culberson County, we will research it free and value it with the work shown.
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