Sell Mineral Rights in Gaines County, TX

Gaines County, seated at Seminole, is one of the most heavily permitted counties in the entire Midland Basin, and that density is exactly why the tract desk underwrites it section by section instead of quoting a county-wide number.

The tract desk spent years on the operating side before it started buying minerals directly, and Gaines County is one of the counties it knows best from that work. Between Seminole, Seagraves, and the surrounding rural sections, there's an enormous amount of Wolfcamp and Spraberry drilling packed into a relatively small footprint, and spacing has gotten tighter every year. That's good for owners in the right section and less exciting for owners a few miles off the core, so the first thing the tract desk does with any Gaines County call is find out exactly where the tract sits.

Here's how the tract desk actually evaluates a Gaines County mineral or royalty interest - what gets checked, what raises the offer, what lowers it, and what documents get us moving fastest.

The tract desk also spend time on the offset-well side of Gaines County underwriting - looking at what's happening one or two sections over from yours, rather than only directly under your tract, since that often signals where an operator is headed next.

Section-by-section, not county-wide

Gaines County covers a lot of ground, and drilling density varies a lot within it. Sections near Seminole and along the more heavily developed trends have multiple stacked horizontal units already producing. Sections toward the county edges may have far less history. The tract desk pulls the actual permit and production record for your specific section - not a county average - before it says a word about value.

This is also where the tract desk looks at operator identity. A handful of large operators run most of the rigs in Gaines County, and their current pace of permitting on your section or the sections around it tells the tract desk a lot about whether value is likely to move up or stay flat over the next couple years.

Spacing units and how they affect your decimal interest

Wolfcamp and Spraberry units in Gaines County are frequently stacked, meaning multiple horizontal laterals run through different depths under the same surface acreage, sometimes under different pooling orders. Your net revenue interest can differ from bench to bench, and the tract desk reconcile all of that against your original deed before it quotes a number, because guessing here leads to bad offers on both sides.

Decline curves on Wolfcamp horizontals

Wolfcamp horizontal wells here typically show a steep first-year decline followed by a longer, flatter tail. The tract desk model that curve against actual comparable well data in your section or the nearest offsets, not a generic type curve pulled off the internet. That's the difference between an offer that reflects your real interest and one that doesn't.

Title and courthouse work at the county seat

The Gaines County Clerk's office in Seminole holds the deed and probate records the tract desk needs to confirm your chain of title. A lot of interests out here have passed through more than one generation without ever being formally partitioned, and the tract desk does that legwork as part of underwriting rather than pushing it back on the family.

Commodity price exposure on Wolfcamp oil

Gaines County production leans oil-weighted, which means your royalty value tracks crude pricing more than natural gas. The tract desk builds current and recent oil pricing directly into the decline model rather than assuming a static price deck, since that assumption alone can swing a valuation significantly.

The tract desk also looks at the natural gas and NGL component of production where it exists, since Wolfcamp wells here typically produce associated gas and liquids alongside oil, and that secondary revenue stream matters more than people often assume.