Sell mineral rights in Ohio
Ohio, valued like we live here.
Ohio is our eastern home — we’re headquartered in Cleveland. Utica shale royalties in the state’s eastern counties come with huge spacing units, tiny decimals, gas-price exposure, and an Ohio title wrinkle (the Dormant Mineral Act) that every owner should understand before talking to any buyer.
The lay of the land
Owning minerals in Ohio.
Utica development transformed eastern Ohio after 2011: farm parcels were pooled into units of several hundred to over a thousand acres, drilled with laterals now running two to three miles. Your decimal is small by design — which makes verifying it, and understanding which wells pay you, the first step of any honest valuation.
Where you sit matters enormously. Dry-gas counties like Belmont, Monroe, and Jefferson pay differently than the wetter windows up through Harrison, Guernsey, and Carroll — and all of it moves with Appalachian gas prices, which trade at their own discount to the national benchmark. We price your window off the curve, not the headline.
Ohio title has teeth. The Dormant Mineral Act allows surface owners to claim severed minerals that have gone unused and unpreserved for twenty years, and a generation of court decisions has made the details matter. Preserved, clean title is worth real money in Ohio — and protecting it is cheap compared to losing it.
Worth knowing
What’s different about Ohio.
Owner education, not legal or tax advice — your attorney and CPA should bless any decision.
The Dormant Mineral Act
If your family’s severed Ohio minerals have sat quiet for decades, a preservation filing is inexpensive insurance against a surface owner’s claim. Worth a conversation with an Ohio attorney whether or not you ever sell.
Thousand-acre units
Your acres likely participate in wells whose pads you’ve never seen, under a decimal with five leading zeros. Our royalty decimal calculator recreates it from your division order in seconds.
Held by production
Most core Utica acreage is now held by existing wells, so new value arrives as infill wells and longer laterals on existing units. Whether your unit has room left is a specific question with a public-records answer.
On the map
Counties we see most.
Where our Ohio conversations usually start — though we read every county we buy in.
The geology underneath
Your basin sets the economics.
State law sets the rules; the rock sets the value. Read how your basin actually pays.
Or anchor on a number first: the free value estimator covers Ohio — no email required.
Common questions
Asked by Ohio owners.
A surface owner says our family’s minerals lapsed under the Dormant Mineral Act. Is it over?
Not automatically. The DMA has strict notice and procedure requirements, and Ohio courts have decided many disputes in mineral owners’ favor when the process was flawed. Talk to an Ohio oil and gas attorney promptly — and know that we only buy minerals whose title genuinely holds up, so our diligence answer is honest by construction.
My royalty checks swing wildly from month to month. Why?
Appalachian gas prices move hard with seasons and pipeline capacity, and operators’ deductions amplify the swings. It makes single-month checks a poor guide to value in either direction — which is why we value the full curve at forward prices instead of multiplying your best or worst month.
Does being headquartered in Cleveland change anything for me?
The counties we buy in are a drive away, the courthouse practices are familiar, and if you want to meet the person reading your file before you sign anything, that’s easy to arrange. Ohio isn’t a territory we mail into — it’s home.
Educational content, not legal, tax, or investment advice. Ohio law and tax treatment depend on your specific facts — involve your attorney and CPA before deciding anything, and we’ll gladly work with them.
No pressure, ever
Whenever you’re ready — even if that’s never.
A county and a family name is enough — we’ll do the Ohio homework at our cost and explain what you own, whether or not you ever sell.
No automated calls. No mailers with sight drafts. No follow-up unless you ask for it.
Rather talk to a person? (970) 444-7374or email hello@eldoradomp.com