I'm no expert but I do have access to some info, so I spent a few mins looking at some data.
There's zero active rigs in the whole county. Literally every county around Ector has activity… some have lots of activity. Ector has none. That's a bad sign.
Company I work for has assets in nearby adjacent counties but hasn't bothered to look for anything there. I'm not a geologist, but based on activity, there seems to be a lack of good rock for horizontal drilling.
Not trying to be a wet blanket here, but the prospects aren't good… especially if they weren't approached last year when prices shot up. Price environment is getting worse now…
I know from my own family how hard this is, but if they're too proud to sell their land (which is what happened to us), you probably need to round up some family to support them, knowing that someday relatively soon you'll get that money back when the land passes on (and gets sold).
