Management Team

Shane Terrel is a graduate of Northwestern Oklahoma State University with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration; focused studies include Economics, Finance, Marketing and Accounting. He is also a graduate of the Missouri Auction School.

Mr. Terrel’s professional history includes: Negotiating over 100,000 acres of oil & gas leases; Over $100 Million in land & mineral transactions; Participating to drill wells from a working interest position; Service company ownership and management; Fresh-water-supply drilling and fracing; Pipeline & Right-of-way negotiations; Surface damage settlements; Drilling location & Compressor site acquisitions; and a broad range of oil & gas consulting services to investment groups, attorneys, lenders, accountants, mineral owners and energy companies.  His personal acquisitions and divestiture portfolio shows investment return averages significantly above industry standards.  Mr. Terrel’s current asset holdings of land & minerals carry a negative acquisition cost with persistently active returns from multiple producing wells. Additionally, Mr. Terrel is the founder and President of Hunting Country Real Estate LLC, a company that brokers agricultural & recreational land transactions across multiple states. Their current real estate licensing includes Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Colorado, Nebraska, Iowa and Florida. Current expansion targets include Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota and South Dakota.  By combining the services of Hunting Country and Mineral Marketing Mr. Terrel formed one of the largest independently owned land & mineral marketing groups in the nation and continues to expand their operations.

Mr. Terrel is a 4th generation farmer that has been self-employed since the age of fifteen, when he started his own custom harvest business with his older brother (Shawn).   In addition to his land & mineral operations he continues to operate the family farm with his wife, Julie and their two children Mitchell and Shayla. The Terrel family resides in Alva Oklahoma.

Mr. Terrel is a co-owner of Mineral Marketing, llc and the Chief Operations Officer.  Mr. Terrel has served the energy industry as a real estate, mineral rights and energy asset broker and auctioneer for the past twenty years. With well over 2,000 transactions successfully negotiated thru private and public sales platforms, he is a recognized industry authority on real estate and oil & gas auction sales and marketing.

In 2007 Mr. Terrel joined United Country Real Estate and is the President of Auction Services.  United Country Real Estate is the largest rural land and non-urban real estate marketing company in America. Mr. Terrel is responsible for the global auction operations for United Country Real Estate.  The parent company (United Real Estate Holdings Group), generates between $8-10 billion in real estate transactional volume each year. Mineral Marketing, llc is a strategic partner of United Real Estate Group and acts as the oil and gas special property group's subject matter expert.  This alliance has allowed the companies to expand their energy marketing services and operations into almost every major oil and gas play inside the U.S. 

Mr. Terrel is an professional instructor for the Certified Auctioneers Institute at Indiana University, in Bloomington, Indiana.  He holds the prestigious Accredited Auctioneer of Real Estate designation and has been awarded the Master Auctioneer designation by United Country Real Estate. Mr. Terrel is a past Director of the board for the National Auctioneers Association and past President/Chairman of the Oklahoma State Auctioneers Association, and was inducted into the Auctioneers Hall of Fame in 2020.  During his almost thirty year career, Mr. Terrel has won multiple champion auctioneer titles and holds professional licenses in a variety of states across the country.  Mr. Terrel continues to work on large scale auction projects in the United States, Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama and Canada.

Danny A. Rice is the broker/owner of Rice Realty Group, Inc. located in Vicksburg, Mississippi. Danny specializes in land & mineral investment properties, including agriculture, row crop, timberland, recreational, and commercial tracts. 

Mr. Rice  has been a licensed Land Broker for over 25 years.  He brings a well-diversified base of knowledge to the company's management team and understands the various aspects of land ownership from the timber to the soil, as well as the subsurface mineral aspects.

Danny helps investors maximize their investments by utilizing 1031 tax free exchange opportunities, USDA Farm Service Agency programs, mitigation properties, marketing farmland, timber and recreational tracts of land across the southeastern United States.  He offers a variety of services for his clients, including: real estate brokerage, mineral acquisitions & divestitures, lease negotiations and integrated farm management. 

Danny is engaged as an owner, investor, and professional consultant on multiple row crop farms, aquaculture, timberland investments, recreational development properties, and oil & gas acquisitions.

Ryan Choate is a Graduate of Oklahoma State University. His professional history includes brokerage work in oil & gas transactions, marketing real estate, mineral investment A & D, leasehold negotiations and well-production from an operational position.

In addition to his position at MineralMarketing.Com Mr. Choate is also involved in the ownership and management of multiple oil & gas production & service entities, including the operation of several producing wells and his family-owned business “Choate Oilfield Services”.

Mr. Choate holds real estate licenses in Oklahoma & Kansas and is an active associate for Hunting Country Real Estate LLC.  He was also one of the original colleagues at MineralMarketing.Com and has been a vital factor in building the largest independently owned land & mineral marketing group in the nation.  Mr. Choate is a 3rd generation oilman and was raised in the oil & gas rich areas of north central Oklahoma.  His background and knowledge in the oil & gas industry continue to produce incredible returns for his family, his business partners and his clients.

Mr. George obtained his real estate license in 2000 and founded the Rocking X Land Company Ltd., in 2005.  As an active rural farm and ranch broker, Virgil is a member of the Colorado Association of Realtors, the Realtor Land Institute (RLI), and he has achieved the designation of Accredited Land Consultant (ALC).  Prior to entering the real estate profession, he was directly involved in the agriculture sector through grain and beef production working on his families farming operation.  He also has a strong background in heavy equipment sales.  In 2011 his real estate company joined United Country Real Estate and continues to achieve the status of one of the top offices in the nation each year within the national system.

Mr. George serves the oil and gas industry in the rocky mountain region which includes Colorado, Wyoming and parts of Western Kansas and Nebraska as the Executive Supervisor for MineralMarketing.Com.  Mr. George has a very strong understanding of oil and gas mineral ownership, severed minerals, term mineral interest and royalty interest.  He is also proficient in oil and gas auction marketing and has expertise in live auction events as well as online and internet broadcast auctions.  His clients operate primarily in the following reservoir basins (Denver Basin, Piceance Basin, Green River Basin and Powder River Basin), however his service reach and knowledge goes well beyond those boundaries.  Combined with his rural land brokerage business, he has put numerous oil and gas properties together for tier one clients and is considered by many to be leading resource in his market area for oil and gas mineral sales and leasing.

Virgil George is a valued member of the MineralMarketing.Com team and brings a tremendous amount of rural property and oil and gas mineral experience to the company.   Virgil possesses high ethical standards in all of his transactions and represents his clients with first class levels of service, consult and support.  He lives in the Burlington, Colorado area with his wife and children.