Location shown at county level. Exact access is shared after a qualified inquiry.
West Texas land ready for its next chapter.
Girvin Ranch is a family-owned West Texas property seeking qualified oil and gas operators, energy developers, and resource partners. Surface and mineral rights are held together within the family.
West Texas oil began one county over.
1920
The first commercial well in West Texas came in at the Westbrook field, Mitchell County, in 1920. The basin it opened is now the highest-producing oil region in the world. This ranch sits on the Eastern Shelf of that basin.
The industry went west.
The oil did not leave.
The deep basin pulled the rigs past the Eastern Shelf, and shallower country like this was passed over when oil prices were lower. Passed over is not empty. Prospect work on file identifies stacked conventional targets under this ranch, described as reachable with a single vertical well.
Surface, minerals, royalties, and the right to lease.
Surface and mineral rights are held together within the family. No unrelated third party holds the minerals beneath the ground an operator would work, and there is no scattered royalty group to assemble. The whole position is negotiated with one family, through a single point of contact.
The family worked this land.
Now the land goes to work.
Cattle and crops carried this ground for a century. The family still farms and ranches on a small scale, and it is now seeking qualified partners to develop the minerals, energy potential, and natural resources already here.
Multiple ways to put the land to work.
Four kinds of development sit on the same land, held within one family. Oil and gas is the first of them.
Oil & Gas
Conventional targets on the Eastern Shelf identified in prior prospect work: the Strawn, the Upper to Middle Cisco, and the Middle to Upper Wolfcamp. Stacked pay, described in that work as reachable with a single vertical well, on acreage where the family holds the mineral estate and the right to lease.
Wind & Solar
1,997 acres of open surface in two blocks, in a region with active wind development. Road access, electrical service on the north side, and one family to negotiate with, through a single point of contact.
Water & Caliche
Groundwater and caliche on the property, historically evaluated for drilling and oilfield operations, construction, and road building.
Infrastructure & Access
An existing 8-inch north-south pipeline across the ranch, three-phase electrical service, the Interstate 20 corridor, State Highway 208, and built-up caliche ranch roads.
The ranch also grants selective hunting access, privately and by arrangement. Hunting
Surface, minerals, royalties, and leasing, held within one family.
Across much of West Texas the mineral rights have been severed from the surface, so an operator or developer assembles agreements across unrelated owners before any work begins. Here the surface and the mineral rights are held by the same family. That removes a layer of negotiation before the deal starts rather than after it.
Schematic.
Pipeline, power, highway, and materials, already here.
An operator or developer arriving on this acreage is not starting from bare ground. An existing 8-inch north-south pipeline crosses the ranch, operated by Energy Transfer, formerly Sunoco. Three-phase service is available on the north side, with single-phase elsewhere. The Interstate 20 corridor carries most of the region's oil and gas traffic through Midland, Big Spring, Colorado City, and Abilene, and State Highway 208 runs north to south through Colorado City. Internal ranch roads are caliche and built up.
What exists physically and what is commercially available are two different questions, and this site does not conflate them.
From working the land to putting the land to work.
For a century this property generated value through cattle, crops, and the daily labor of a ranching family. It ran as a full cattle and farming operation through the 1990s, and the family still farms and ranches on a smaller scale today.
The next chapter is different in kind. Rather than relying on the family's own labor, Girvin Ranch is seeking qualified operators and developers who can responsibly develop what the property already contains and supports: oil and gas, groundwater, caliche, surface acreage, wind and solar potential, and energy infrastructure. The family is not stepping away from the land. It is changing how the land creates value.
Qualified parties get the files.
Materials are released following a short qualification exchange.
- A prepared technical brief on the property
- The underlying maps and geological sections
- The prospect materials behind the target summary
- The regional analog work and the literature it cites
- Ownership information covering surface, minerals, royalties, and leasing rights
The materials are prior interpretations released for independent diligence. They are not reserve certifications, and nothing in them should be read as an engineering opinion or a production guarantee.
Four generations on the same ground.
The family's roots in the West Texas oil camps at Westbrook go back four generations. In the late 1930s it settled on its own land near Lake Champion, on the edge of the Permian Basin, and never let it go. Long-term stewardship, a small number of selective partnerships, and a straightforward relationship with the people who work here have outlasted every commodity cycle.
Tell us what you are evaluating.
Start with the category which fits. We read every inquiry, respond where there is a fit, and share technical materials with qualified parties.