Selling Permian Basin mineral and royalty interests
In the Midland and Delaware Basins, a single 640-acre railroad or Public School Land section can hold multiple horizontal benches, depth-severed leases, and two-mile allocation wells. Here is what we check before putting a written offer on the table.
This page is general information from a direct buyer, not legal, tax, or investment advice.
West Texas mineral deeds and leases describe land by Section, Block, Survey (such as T&P RR Co., H&GN RR Co., or Public School Land), and Abstract number across counties like Midland, Martin, Howard, Upton, Reagan, Glasscock, Reeves, Loving, Winkler, Ward, Pecos, and Culberson. Because older vertical San Andres, Clearfork, Spraberry, or Wolfcamp wells often held only shallow or specific stratigraphic intervals under horizontal Pugh clauses, an owner may hold one royalty rate in shallow vertical wells and a different lease status or unleased interest in deeper horizontal benches.
Three Permian title details that affect an offer
- Depth severances and retained-acreage clauses: Many West Texas leases signed after the 1980s include horizontal Pugh or retained-acreage clauses that released depths 100 feet below the deepest producing perforation at the end of the primary term. We check whether your deep Spraberry, Jo Mill, Dean, Bone Spring, or Wolfcamp benches are held by an older lease or open.
- Multi-section PSA and allocation wells: Modern horizontal laterals regularly cross two or three 640-acre sections (10,000 to 15,000 feet). Your check-stub decimal on an allocation well is weighted by the productive lateral footage crossing your tract divided by total lateral length.
- Relinquishment Act ( mineral-classified ) land: On certain Texas Public School Land sections sold between September 1, 1895 and August 21, 1931 with a mineral classification, the surface owner acts as leasing agent for the State of Texas under Texas Natural Resources Code § 52.171, and the surface owner's half of bonus and royalty travels with the surface estate rather than a standard mineral deed.
What to send if you want a written offer
If you have a recent check stub, a division order, a lease offer letter, or an older deed naming the Section, Block, and Survey, enter the county and whatever description you have in the request form below. We check the courthouse chain and RRC well records at our own cost before sending a written offer letter.
Ask for an offer on Permian minerals
Tell us the county, section/block/survey, and what paper you have. We don't make an offer on every request. If we can, it comes in writing.
Who's on the other side: mineral.land, buying for our own account. Sending this form doesn't commit you to anything.
Rather talk? (307) 263-8515 or hello@mineral.land.