Texas is big enough that "mineral rights in Texas" barely means anything on its own, and any buyer who quotes you a number before asking which play you're in isn't really looking at your interest.
We've bought and sold minerals ourselves, and the first thing we learned about Texas is that the state's size works against easy answers. A Permian basin interest in Midland or Martin County has almost nothing in common with an Eagle Ford interest in Karnes County, a Haynesville interest up in Panola County, or an older Barnett shale gas interest around Tarrant and Johnson County. Each of those plays has its own economics, its own operators, and its own production behavior, so we treat every Texas conversation as a conversation about your specific play first.
Whatever county you're in, whether you're holding a producing royalty check or an undeveloped interest that's never seen a permit, we'll ground the offer in what's actually happening on your acreage, not a generic per-acre number pulled from headlines about the Permian.
West Texas counties like Midland, Martin, Reagan, and Upton sit in the middle of the most active drilling region in the country, with stacked-pay development across multiple formations and some of the deepest buyer interest anywhere. If your interest is here, you likely have real recent activity to point to, and values can move quickly as operators lease and permit new acreage. We check current permit and rig data before pricing a Permian interest, since a number from even a year ago may not reflect what's happening on your section today.
The Permian also spans a wide range of counties beyond the core, and acreage on the play's edges prices differently than the most heavily drilled sections. We're upfront about where your specific county falls within that range.
The Eagle Ford in South Texas runs from an oil window near the Gulf Coast side through a liquids-rich middle band into a dry gas window further northwest, and where your acreage sits within that band matters as much as which county you're in. The Haynesville, straddling East Texas and northern Louisiana, is a high-pressure dry gas play where well costs and gas pricing drive value more than liquids ever will. The Barnett, centered around the Dallas-Fort Worth area, was one of the original shale plays and today is a mature, largely developed field where most interests are valued on established decline rather than new drilling upside.
Each of these plays rewards a different kind of analysis, and we price them that way rather than applying Permian-style logic to a Barnett interest or Eagle Ford assumptions to Haynesville acreage.
Texas also has a long tail of older conventional production and the Anadarko basin's Texas panhandle counties, where wells have been producing for decades with slow, steady decline. These interests don't make headlines, but they're often easier to value in some ways because the production history is long and well-documented. We're glad to look at these alongside anything in a modern shale play.
Texas title runs through the county clerk in whichever county your minerals sit in, and with a state this large, we're used to working across dozens of different county offices and their varying record-keeping conventions. Whether your interest is a mineral fee, a royalty interest, or a non-participating royalty interest, and whether it's held individually or through a family trust or LLC, we'll walk you through what that means for how the sale gets structured.
Not necessarily. Each play has its own production economics and current activity levels, so we price your interest based on its specific county and production history rather than assuming one play is universally worth more.
Often yes. Barnett interests are typically valued on established, predictable decline rather than new drilling potential, and a long production history gives us a solid basis for a fair offer.
We check recent permit and rig activity at the time of your offer, since Permian values can shift meaningfully within a year given how active the play remains.
Yes, we regularly work with interests held through trusts and LLCs, and we'll explain what documentation is needed to complete that kind of sale.
Yes, older conventional interests with a long production history are often straightforward to value, and we're glad to make an offer on acreage like this alongside anything in a newer shale play.
The same tract, deed chain, lease, division order, payor account, wells, and deductions carry into each of these reviews.
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