Where We Buy · Wyoming · Crook County

Sell your Crook County mineral rights.

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.

We buy small interests with no minimum. Send us whatever you have.

Formations & Plays

What produces here

Minnelusa

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.

Dakota and Lakota

Including the West Moorcroft Dakota Field, a point bar channel trap that produced roughly 10 million barrels from under 600 acres.

Muddy and Newcastle

Additional shallow conventional pays.

Counties

Communities we see in Crook County title

Sundance Moorcroft Hulett Pine Haven Beulah Aladdin

Wherever your tract sits in Crook County, we will research it free and value it with the work shown.

Questions

Straight answers for Crook County owners

Should I expect multiple wells on my Crook County tract?
No, and this is an important distinction from the western Powder River counties. Crook produces from small, discrete stratigraphic and eolian traps rather than from stacked horizontal benches. Do not underwrite multi bench upside here and be skeptical of any offer that implies it. What Crook does have is proven, small, high quality pools with long shallow decline, and the West Moorcroft Dakota Field produced roughly 10 million barrels from under 600 acres, which shows how concentrated the value can be.
There seem to be a lot of different operators. Does that matter?
It is unusual and worth knowing. Crook has roughly 31 producing operators for only about 220 producing wells, including Signal Hill, True Oil, Emre, Cardinal Wyoming, Red Rock, PML, Kaiser Francis, Granite Creek, Citation, and many others. That fragmentation means payment practices and reporting quality vary a great deal from one interest to the next, and it is one reason interests here get orphaned in suspense. We check that as part of the free research.
Is Crook County good for fee mineral ownership?
Among the best in Wyoming. Crook is heavily fee and private, with Black Hills National Forest to the east and Devils Tower National Monument in the county. Family held mineral tracts are common here in a way they are not in Sublette or Sweetwater. Expect small interests and modest absolute revenue, but comparatively clean fee title and long shallow decline, in a state with no income tax and no dormant mineral act.
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