SCOOP, STACK, Osage, or Arkoma minerals? Oklahoma's Corporation Commission pooling orders and probate-heavy titles change how a purchase closes.
Permian, Eagle Ford, Haynesville, Barnett, or Panhandle minerals? Texas closes at the county level. Here's how records, deeds, and escrow actually work.
The Kansas Marketable Record Title Act changes how old mineral interests are proven. Here is how a purchase moves from title check to recorded deed in this state.
Lea, Eddy, or San Juan County minerals? New Mexico's mix of federal, state, and private ownership changes how a purchase gets structured and closed.
Fayetteville shale gas and Smackover lithium brine raise different title questions in Arkansas. Here is how the purchase, title check, and closing statement work for each.
Louisiana is a civil-law state, so you sell a mineral servitude through an Act of Sale recorded in the parish conveyance records. Here is how that closing actually works.
Most Bakken mineral owners live nowhere near North Dakota. Here's exactly how a remote, out-of-state closing on your Williston Basin interest works.
DJ basin spacing units and Piceance basin federal checkerboard land create different title questions in Colorado. Here is how a mineral rights purchase closes in each.
Campbell, Sublette, or Sweetwater County minerals? Wyoming's checkerboard federal ownership shapes how a purchase gets titled and closed. What to expect.
Washington, Greene, or Susquehanna County minerals? Post-production deductions shape what your Pennsylvania royalty checks show. Read before you sell.
Belmont, Carroll, or Harrison County minerals? Ohio's coal-era severances make title work different here. What to check before you sign a purchase deed.
Marshall or Wetzel County minerals? West Virginia title chains often run through five or six generations of heirs. What that means for your closing.
Own minerals in Richland, Sheridan, or Powder River County, Montana? Learn how a purchase actually closes, from title check to funded escrow, before you sign.
Duchesne or Uintah County minerals? Utah's waxy Uinta crude prices differently than other basins. What that means before you sell your mineral rights.
Mississippi records land through the Chancery Clerk, not a recorder, and TMS and legacy Jurassic salt basin acreage each price differently. Here is how a purchase closes.
How an Alabama mineral rights purchase closes: Probate Court recording, a title search on Black Warrior basin acreage, escrow, and a closing statement, explained step by step.
Antrim shale wells drilled in the 1990s are still paying royalties across northern Michigan. Here is how a mineral rights purchase, title check, and closing work today.
Illinois basin mineral interests are often small legacy shares from old family farms. Here is how the title check, curative work, and closing actually happen.
Kentucky's broad form deeds and split coal and gas title make purchase closings different in the east than the west. Here is how the title check and closing actually work.
Tennessee mineral ownership is mostly legacy Cumberland Plateau leases, not new drilling. Here's what a closing looks like on a quiet, older interest.
Missouri's Forest City basin edge sees little modern drilling, but a purchase still follows a real title check, escrow, and closing statement. Here is what that looks like.
Nebraska mineral ownership sits mostly in dormant or lightly-active acreage near the Colorado line. Here's what a real purchase and closing looks like there.
Legacy San Joaquin and LA basin mineral interests often carry a century of fractional heirship. Here is how a California purchase moves from offer to recorded deed.
Private mineral ownership on the North Slope is unusual since most subsurface acreage is state or Native corporation land. Here is how a purchase closes when you hold title.