Sell Your Wyoming Mineral Rights for Cash
Selling My Mineral Rights buys mineral rights, oil and gas rights and royalty interests across Wyoming, from the Powder River Basin oil counties of Converse and Campbell to the Pinedale and Jonah gas fields in Sublette County, the Wamsutter country of Sweetwater and Carbon, the Codell play east of Cheyenne and the Wind River Basin in Fremont County. Send a legal description or a royalty statement and get a written offer in 3 to 5 business days.
If you want to sell your mineral rights in Wyoming, we buy producing royalties, unleased minerals, overriding royalties and inherited fractions. No commissions, no fees, and if your interest has been force-pooled or sits in a unit with federal tracts, we explain what that means before we price it.
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MINERAL RIGHTS & ROYALTIES
What could your mineral rights be worth?
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Quick answer: We buy oil and gas mineral rights and royalty interests across Wyoming’s main producing counties: Converse and Campbell for oil, Sublette and Sweetwater for natural gas, plus Carbon, Laramie and Fremont. A written offer usually follows within 3–5 business days, with no fees or commissions.
Free, no-obligation review: Selling My Mineral Rights evaluates producing and non-producing mineral rights, royalty interests, and inherited or fractional interests across Wyoming. You can request an offer without paying fees or committing to sell.
Wyoming’s Oil and Gas Comes From a Handful of Counties
Wyoming produced about 105 million barrels of oil and 1.31 trillion cubic feet of natural gas in 2025, according to the Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, and EIA figures put it seventh among states for oil and tenth for marketed gas. The output is concentrated. Converse County supplied about 43% of the state’s oil and Campbell County about 23%, almost all of it from horizontal wells in the Powder River Basin. Sublette County, home of the Pinedale and Jonah fields, accounted for about 46% of the gas volume reported to the Commission, and Sweetwater County about 16%.
Each producing area rests on different rock. The Powder River Basin is stacked: the Niobrara alone produced about a third of all Wyoming oil in 2025, with the Turner, Parkman, Mowry, Sussex, Teapot and Shannon behind it. In the southwest, the Lance formation at Pinedale and Jonah was the state’s largest single source of gas. Laramie County’s oil comes almost entirely from the Codell sandstone of the Denver-Julesburg Basin, and Fremont County’s gas mostly from the deep Madison formation at the Madden field. Which formation sits under your tract, and how many of them, drives what your interest is worth.
Much of the state is federal. By our calculation from federal royalty, EIA and Commission data, roughly half of Wyoming’s oil and about three-quarters of its gas came from federal leases in 2025. For a private owner that has practical effects: a spacing unit often combines fee, state and federal tracts, and in the Union Pacific checkerboard of southern Wyoming, ownership can change from one section to the next.
Wyoming has no dormant mineral act. A severed mineral interest does not lapse because nobody used it, and the state’s Marketable Title Act expressly does not cut off oil and gas interests. What can happen is that unpaid royalties are turned over to the State Treasurer as unclaimed property after three years. The money can still be claimed, and the mineral title stays with the owner.
Wyoming Can Pool Your Minerals Without a Lease, But Owes You a Royalty
When owners in a drilling unit cannot agree, the Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission can pool every interest in the unit after notice and a hearing. A 2020 law (House Bill 14) changed the terms for owners who never signed a lease. While the operator recovers its costs, an unleased owner receives a cost-free royalty of at least 16%, or the average royalty of the leased tracts in the unit if that is higher. The operator’s risk penalty for an unleased owner is capped at 200% of drilling and completion costs on the first well and 150% on later wells, and after payout the operator must offer the owner the chance to participate.
Owners who are leased but refuse to join a well face steeper terms: the statute allows recovery of up to 300% of their share of drilling and completion costs from their production. A pooling order also expires if the operator has not started operations within a year. If you have received a pooling application, the election you make, or fail to make, changes both your income and what a buyer will pay.
The Royalty Payment Act Protects Wyoming Owners
Wyoming’s Royalty Payment Act is stricter than most. The first payment is due within six months of the first day of the month after first sale, and later payments within 60 days of the end of the month the production is sold. Late payments carry 18% annual interest, and the prevailing party recovers attorney fees. Every check stub must show eleven items, including volumes, price, taxes, itemized deductions, your decimal and your share before and after deductions.
The Act also limits deductions. Royalty is paid free of the costs of production, which by statute include gathering, compressing, dehydrating and transporting gas into the market pipeline. In Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. v. Followill (2004), the Wyoming Supreme Court read “gathering” broadly, holding that moving gas from the wellhead to the market pipeline could not be charged to royalty owners. Costs of transporting gas after it enters the market pipeline, and of processing it in a gas plant, can be deducted, so the question on your statement is where each charge was incurred.
Taxes on a Wyoming Royalty Check
Wyoming’s severance tax is 6% on oil and gas, and 4% on qualifying stripper oil. Counties also levy an ad valorem production tax on the full value of the product; the statewide average mill levy on mineral production was about 64 mills in 2024, roughly 6.4% of value. Royalty owners bear their share of both, which is why the Royalty Payment Act requires the stub to show production taxes as a separate line.
Wyoming has no personal income tax, so neither royalty income nor the gain on a sale is taxed by the state. Federal income tax still applies. Selling your whole interest is generally a capital transaction for federal purposes, and inherited minerals usually take a stepped-up basis equal to their value at the date of death, which can make the taxable gain small. A CPA should confirm your situation before closing.
What We Check on a Wyoming Interest
- The deed or probate record that put the minerals in your name, recorded with the county clerk in the county where the land lies.
- Whether the tract is fee, state or federal, and whether it falls inside the Union Pacific checkerboard, where odd and even sections have different histories.
- The spacing unit and any pooling order, and whether you are a leased owner or an unleased pooled owner under the 2020 rules.
- Lease royalty, deduction language measured against the Royalty Payment Act’s costs-of-production rule, and any depth or Pugh clauses.
- Unit wells, the formation each well produces from, completion dates, production history and your net decimal.
- Pending Commission permits and hearing dockets that point to new wells in the unit.
- Heirship and probate, including Wyoming ancillary probate for out-of-state estates, and any royalties already turned over to the State Treasurer.
Where Wyoming Mineral Records Are Kept
In Wyoming the county clerk records deeds, leases, assignments and other instruments; there is no separate recorder of deeds. Probate is handled by the district court in the county. Permits, well files, production by well and formation, and spacing and pooling orders are held by the Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission in Casper, which hears cases on the second Tuesday of each month and publishes its data online.
Federal leases are administered by the Bureau of Land Management, and minerals on the Wind River Indian Reservation are supervised by federal agencies on behalf of the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho tribes, so they cannot be bought and sold like private minerals. State trust minerals are managed by the Office of State Lands and Investments.
Wyoming Mineral Rights FAQs
Can I sell my oil and gas rights in Wyoming?
Yes. Whether you want to sell your oil rights, sell your gas rights, or sell your oil and gas royalty rights together, in Wyoming they are all mineral or royalty interests, and we buy them for cash. That includes the full mineral estate, oil and gas reserved separately from other minerals, overriding royalties, and fractional shares inherited from family. If your deed or lease covers only certain depths or formations, we value exactly what you own.
How do I sell mineral rights in Wyoming?
Start with what you have: a royalty statement, a lease, a deed or a probate order, plus the county and legal description. We confirm ownership in the county clerk’s records, check the Commission’s well and pooling records, and send a written offer you can compare with any other. If you accept, we prepare the mineral deed, record it with the county clerk and pay you at closing.
How much are mineral rights worth in Wyoming?
It depends mostly on where the tract is and what it produces. Oil-weighted Powder River Basin minerals in Converse and Campbell counties are priced on their wells and the benches still undrilled, Sublette and Sweetwater gas royalties on gas prices and decline, and Laramie County interests on the Codell. Your lease, deductions and decimal finish the calculation, so a recent statement or legal description is the best starting point.
How much can I sell my mineral rights for?
For a producing royalty, a buyer projects what your wells will pay over their remaining life, takes out Wyoming’s severance and ad valorem taxes and any allowed deductions, and discounts for risk, which is why offers are often expressed as a multiple of recent monthly income. For unleased acreage the guide is what operators are paying nearby. Ask any buyer to show their assumptions, and compare written offers.
Is it worth selling mineral rights?
It can be. Selling often fits owners with a small inherited fraction shared among many heirs, gas royalties that have already passed their best years, or an estate that needs to be settled. Holding often fits owners whose unit is still being drilled, especially in the Powder River Basin where several formations can be developed under one tract. We will tell you honestly which way we think your interest leans.
Do I have to pay taxes if I sell my mineral rights?
Not to Wyoming, which has no personal income tax. Federal tax usually applies to the gain: selling your whole interest is generally a capital transaction, and inherited minerals often take a stepped-up basis that makes the gain small. A CPA should confirm your situation before you close.
Can my Wyoming minerals be pooled if I never signed a lease?
Yes. After notice and a hearing, the Commission can pool all interests in a drilling unit. Since 2020, an unleased owner who is pooled receives a cost-free royalty of at least 16% while the operator recovers its costs, and can elect to participate after payout. The order also sets risk penalties, so read any pooling application carefully before the hearing.
Our minerals have not produced in decades. Could we have lost them?
Not through nonuse. Wyoming has no dormant mineral act, and its Marketable Title Act does not extinguish mineral interests. Unclaimed royalty money can be turned over to the State Treasurer after three years, but it can still be claimed, and the minerals remain yours.
Some of our royalty seems to be missing. Where could it be?
Often in suspense or escrow because the operator cannot confirm who is entitled to it, which is common after a death. Funds unclaimed for three years go to the State Treasurer’s unclaimed property program. We can help identify the operator and the account, and a probate or summary distribution order usually releases the money.
Are there fees to get an offer?
No. There is no broker commission, appraisal fee or listing expense, and we pay the recording fee and the cost of preparing the mineral deed. If probate is needed first, we explain what is required before you spend anything.
Get a Free, No-Obligation Offer
Send a legal description, a check stub, a division order or an old deed. We will identify the basin, the unit and the wells that affect the interest, explain whether federal tracts or a pooling order are involved, and provide a written cash offer when the interest is marketable.
Records and Sources We Use
We use deed, lease, probate and assignment records filed with the county clerk, and permit, well, production and hearing records from the Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission and its public data site. Pooling rules come from House Bill 14 (2020) and Wyoming Statutes Title 30, which also contains the Royalty Payment Act. For federal leases we use the Bureau of Land Management and federal royalty data.
Last reviewed October 2026. Sources: Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission 2025 production data; U.S. Energy Information Administration state rankings (2025); Wyoming State Geological Survey 2025 oil and gas summary; Wyoming Statutes Titles 30, 34 and 39; Office of Natural Resources Revenue production data. This page provides general information, not legal or tax advice. A qualified Wyoming attorney or CPA should advise you about your facts.
Header photo: Bureau of Land Management Wyoming / Wikimedia Commons, public domain.
Wyoming Mineral Owner Guides
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Mineral ownership, title history and drilling patterns often continue across county lines. These related guides provide useful comparisons:
- Ohio mineral rights — Utica Shale royalties and the Ohio Dormant Mineral Act.
- Pennsylvania mineral rights — Marcellus Shale royalties, royalty-deduction law and the Dunham Rule.
- West Virginia mineral rights — Marcellus and Utica interests, flat-rate leases and cotenancy rules.
- Louisiana mineral rights — Haynesville servitudes and the ten-year prescription rule.
- New Mexico mineral rights — Delaware and San Juan Basin interests, fee minerals and state trust land.
- Texas mineral rights — Permian Basin royalties in the state’s top oil-producing counties.
- Oklahoma mineral rights — SCOOP and STACK royalties, spacing units and forced pooling.
- Colorado mineral rights — DJ and Piceance Basin interests and Colorado’s pooling consent rules.
- North Dakota mineral rights — Bakken and Three Forks royalties across the Williston Basin.
Why Mineral Owners Contact Us
No Fees or Commissions
There is no cost to request an offer, and we cover normal closing costs.
A Simple Process
Share the information you have. We research the interest and explain the offer clearly.
No Obligation
You decide whether selling fits your goals. There is no pressure to accept.
How the Offer Process Works
- Tell us about your mineral rights. Send the owner name, county, and any lease, well, or royalty information you have.
- We review the interest. Our team researches ownership, production, and nearby activity.
- Receive a cash offer. We explain the offer and answer your questions.
- Choose what works for you. If you accept, we coordinate the paperwork and closing.
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