Sell your Ritchie County mineral rights.

Ritchie County has two overlapping mineral estates: core wet gas Marcellus in the Antero liquids fairway, and the wreckage of America's first oil boom underneath it. Roughly 10,300 wells are on file here, the highest historic count of any Appalachian county we cover, with about 4,400 still producing, overwhelmingly shallow strippers.

That history produced the most fractionated mineral title in Appalachia. Ritchie sits in the original 1860s oil belt beside the Burning Springs and Volcano fields, and 160 years of intestate succession has left ownership fractions in the millionths spread across dozens of states. It is why so much royalty money sits in operator suspense here and why most buyers will not return a Ritchie County call.

We will. We run our own title, we buy small interests with no minimum, and we pay all closing costs. If money is sitting in suspense we will tell you how to claim it and you keep it whether or not you sell.

Two local specifics. The 2018 Cotenancy Modernization and Majority Protection Act is used heavily here because of the fragmentation, and the nonconsent default of a royalty on gross proceeds free of post production expenses at the highest rate paid to any consenting cotenant is generally the better outcome. And old Ritchie deeds sometimes carry grahamite and asphaltum severances from the historic Ritchie Mines, separate from oil and gas, which an out of state title runner will misread.

Flat rate leases from 1890 through 1930 are also common. Send us whatever you have.