What drives the value of your Central Basin Platform minerals — and how to find out your number, free.
There is no single price per acre for Central Basin Platform minerals. Value is specific to your tract — and the only reliable way to learn your number is a valuation built from your actual acreage. Below is exactly what determines it, so you can understand any offer you receive and recognize a fair one.
The Central Basin Platform is a structural high within the Permian Basin that separates the Midland and Delaware basins. Unlike the deeper shale plays to the east and west, it produces from conventional carbonate reservoirs — offering mineral owners steady, long-lived royalty income with ongoing upside from CO₂ EOR and horizontal recompletions.
The single biggest factor is whether there are active wells beneath your acreage. Producing Central Basin Platform minerals are valued on the royalty income they generate, adjusted for how quickly that income will decline. Non-producing minerals are valued on a per-net-mineral-acre basis that reflects the probability and timing of future drilling.
While the Central Basin Platform is considered more mature than the Midland or Delaware basins, active waterfloods and CO₂ enhanced oil recovery (EOR) projects—most notably operated by Occidental Petroleum's subsidiary Permian EOR—continue to extract significant volumes. Horizontal redevelopment of the San Andres and Yates is also ongoing, particularly in Crane and Ector counties. Mineral owners on the Central Basin Platform benefit from the stability of long-lived conventional production alongside the upside of modern horizontal recompletions.
No online calculator or per-acre rule of thumb can tell you your number. The reliable way to learn what your Central Basin Platform minerals are worth is a valuation built from your specific acreage — which ARB provides free, with the reasoning explained and no obligation to sell.
There is no single per-acre price for Central Basin Platform minerals — value depends on your net mineral acres, whether the acreage is producing, the formations beneath it, nearby operator activity, well decline, and current commodity prices. The reliable way to learn your number is a free, no-obligation valuation built from your specific acreage, which American Royalty Buyers provides with the reasoning explained.
Producing minerals are valued primarily on the royalty income they generate, adjusted for how quickly that income will decline. Newer wells facing steep decline are treated differently than wells further along their curve, and remaining undrilled locations add upside.
Non-producing minerals are valued on a per-net-mineral-acre basis that reflects the probability and timing of future drilling. In active core areas with nearby permits and rigs the value is higher; on the margins it is discounted because drilling is less certain.
Yes. American Royalty Buyers buys mineral rights, royalties, NPRI, ORRI, and non-operated working interests across the Central Basin Platform — producing or non-producing, including complex or inherited title.
Submit your information through our valuation form or call (817) 778-9532. ARB delivers a no-obligation offer, typically within five business days, with no fees and no pressure to sell.