Sundance, Moorcroft, Hulett: small Minnelusa and Dakota oil pools with 31 operators for 220 producing wells, and the cleanest fee mineral title in Wyoming.
Crook County sits in the northeast corner of Wyoming against the Black Hills, and it is a small pool county rather than a stacked pay county. The signature play is the Minnelusa, a Pennsylvanian eolian sandstone forming small high porosity pools roughly 1,500 to 3,500 feet deep across most of the county and as shallow as 600 feet in the Belle Fourche valley. Dakota and Lakota add more, including the West Moorcroft Dakota Field, a point bar channel trap that produced roughly 10 million barrels from under 600 acres.
We say plainly that this is not a multi bench story. Do not underwrite repeat drilling upside here, and be skeptical of any offer that implies it. What Crook offers is proven small pools with long shallow decline, which is a legitimate asset with a real number attached.
The operator picture is unusually fragmented: roughly 31 producing operators for about 220 producing wells, out of some 4,500 drilled. Signal Hill is the largest. That fragmentation means payment practices vary widely, and it is one reason interests here end up orphaned in operator suspense. We check for that and tell you how to claim anything owed, which you keep whether or not you sell.
What Crook does have that most of Wyoming does not is genuinely clean, family held fee mineral title. Combined with no state income tax, no withholding at closing, no dormant mineral act, and a statutory rule protecting your royalty from production cost deductions, an interest here is straightforward to own and straightforward to sell.
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The county's signature play. Small, high porosity eolian pools, roughly 1,500 to 3,500 feet deep in the east and north and around 600 feet in the Belle Fourche valley.
Including the West Moorcroft Dakota Field, a point bar channel trap that produced roughly 10 million barrels from under 600 acres.
Additional shallow conventional pays.
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