I want to thank the webmasters who chose the Granite Wash (GW) to be a new group in the Mineral Rights Forum. Parenthetically, when I first joined the forum, I was somewhat surprised that the GW play was not listed as a separate entity since it has great potential to produce way more gas and oil than it has to date. Depending upon the maps (and articles) of the GW that you check, it stretches roughly 130 miles from the eastern Texas Panhandle into western Oklahoma and includes several counties (especially Washita, Beckham, Roger Mills, Custer, as well as parts of Caddo, Grady, Stephens, Comanche and Kiowa ) Of note, according to shaleoilplays.com in a recent article entitled "Granite Wash Tight Sands Play" ( and other such plays), may be the "new shale gas" and "...though they present many more challenges to development than shale plays do. There are believed to be even vaster resources of 'tight sands gas and oil' than shale gas and oil in North America." If this is true for the GW play (and the price of natural gas), then it is likely that we mineral owners will see increased exploratory activity in our respective areas and lots of horizontal wells drilled. As many others have posted on this website, do not sell your mineral rights unless you really need the money. BTW, I look forward to reading your comments about this new group.