# Sell Mineral Rights in Kern County, CA | Berlin Royalties > Selling Kern County mineral rights or royalties? Berlin buys in Midway-Sunset, Kern River, Belridge, Cymric, Lost Hills, and Elk Hills. Honest offers, valuation shown. Source: https://www.berlinroyalties.com/california/kern-county/ Publisher: Berlin Royalties, a veteran-owned oil and gas mineral and royalty buyer in Tulsa, Oklahoma, buying for its own account since 2014. Call or text 918-984-1645. License: free to quote and cite with attribution to Berlin Royalties and a link to the source URL. Where We Buy · California · Kern County ## Sell your Kern County mineral rights. Midway-Sunset, Kern River, Belridge, Cymric, Lost Hills, Elk Hills: the most productive oil county in California, and we buy in all of it. [Get a Free Valuation](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/free-valuation/) or call or text [918-984-1645](tel:9189841645) Kern County produces most of California's oil, and it has done so across three different centuries. The names on the map, Midway-Sunset, Kern River, Belridge, Cymric, Lost Hills, Elk Hills, are among the largest and longest-lived oil fields in the United States, and the operators here, Chevron, California Resources, Berry, and a bench of specialists, run steamfloods the way Oklahoma operators run rigs. Most mineral buyers will not touch any of it, which is exactly why we do. It is worth knowing the scale of what you are part of: 34,272 wells are currently producing in Kern County, more than in any other county in America, and 246 permits have been approved in the last 90 days. The reason Kern royalties get underpaid is arithmetic rather than geology. Steamflood heavy oil produces modest volumes for decades, so a Kern royalty is small monthly money attached to an unusually long tail. The standard offer, a multiple of your last twelve months, prices the size of your check and captures very little of its length. We price the tail explicitly. See our [San Joaquin Basin page](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/basins/san-joaquin/) for the full explanation. If you hold a producing royalty around Taft or Bakersfield, inherited fractions scattered across the west side, or non-producing acreage nobody has called about in decades, we will research it free, value it off the actual wells, and show you our math, including exactly how we discount for California's politics. If keeping it is the right answer, we will say that too. Formations & Plays ## What produces here ### Midway-Sunset California's largest oil field, producing since 1894 around Taft and Fellows. Steamflooded heavy oil with the patient decline that makes royalties here durable. ### Kern River Discovered 1899 on the bluffs northeast of Bakersfield and famously still going. Shallow, dense well spacing, and some of the most predictable royalty checks in American oil. ### Belridge and Cymric The South Belridge and Cymric complex west of the valley floor, diatomite and heavy oil worked continuously for a century. ### Lost Hills Diatomite ridge in northwestern Kern with dense development and long-lived production. ### Elk Hills The former Naval Petroleum Reserve, one of the most prolific fields in state history, gas and oil both. Counties ## Communities we see in Kern County title Bakersfield Taft Fellows McKittrick Shafter Lost Hills Wherever your interest sits in Kern County, we will research it free and value it with the work shown. 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See the [full county index](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/counties/) or the [California overview](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/california/). ### The California mineral owner's guide Everything a California owner needs in one place: who owns what under state law, how royalties must be paid and by when, what a buyer can and cannot deduct, the tax treatment of a sale, and the deadlines that quietly cost people their minerals. Free, and no sign-up. [Read the California guide](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/guide/california/) Questions ## Straight answers for Kern County owners How much production is actually in Kern County? More than any county in the United States. Enverus shows 34,272 producing wells here, with California Resources Corporation operating roughly 16,086 of them and Chevron roughly 10,873. Sentinel Peak Resources holds about 2,457 and E&B Natural Resources about 970. There are also six rigs running and 246 permits approved in the last 90 days, led by Aera Energy at roughly 109, Chevron at 40, Sentinel Peak at 31, California Resources at 35 across two entities, and Berry Petroleum at 10. Anyone who tells you drilling in California has stopped has not looked. What are mineral rights worth in Kern County? It depends on the field, the operator, and your decimal. Steamflood royalties off Midway-Sunset or Kern River are valued off current checks and shallow decline; non-producing acreage depends on location and the permitting outlook. County averages mislead. Send what you have and we will give you a real number with the work shown, free. Everyone says California is uninvestable. Why do you buy here? Because the wells are excellent even when the politics are loud. Kern's big fields decline slowly and have paid for a century, and the state reopened a Kern permitting pathway in late 2025. We price the political risk explicitly and show you the discount, rather than using fear to justify a lowball. I inherited a Kern County royalty and got a property tax bill. Is that normal? Yes. California counties assess producing mineral interests ad valorem, which surprises out-of-state heirs. If the interest is more nuisance than income, that is a common reason owners sell, and we handle the details cleanly at closing. ## Before you sign anything in Kern County The things owners here most often wish they had read first. All free, none of it gated. - [How mineral rights are valued](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/mineral-rights-value/), including the rule of thumb people quote and why it is usually wrong - [Selling mineral rights](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/sell-mineral-rights/) and [selling oil and gas royalties](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/sell-oil-and-gas-royalties/), with the real process and timeline - [The Pugh clause](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/pugh-clause/), the single most valuable sentence you can negotiate into a lease - [What a farm out is](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/farmout-agreements/), and why your operator suddenly changed - [The rule of capture](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/rule-of-capture/), and why a neighbor's well can legally drain your minerals - [Non-participating royalty interests](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/non-participating-royalty-interest/), if your deed carved one out - [Executive rights](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/executive-rights/), if somebody else signs the lease that binds your minerals - [Surface owner rights](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/surface-owner-rights/), if you own the ground and someone else owns what is under it - [Questions to ask a buyer](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/questions-to-ask/) and [what happens if you want out after signing](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/can-i-back-out-of-a-mineral-rights-sale/) Free Valuation ## Find out what your Kern County minerals are worth. Free, no obligation, and no pressure. We reply within one business day, usually faster. Prefer the phone? Call or text [918-984-1645](tel:9189841645) and you will get Stephen, the owner, not a call center. If we miss you, we text back the same day. Your Name Phone Number Email Address Where are your minerals located? OklahomaTexasNew MexicoLouisiana ArkansasKansasNorth DakotaMontana WyomingColoradoUtahCalifornia West VirginiaOhioPennsylvaniaKentucky MichiganMississippiAlabamaAlaska Sand/Gravel/AggregateOther / Not sure County (if known) Interest type Select an option Minerals and Royalties Working Interest Overriding Royalty Interest An Entity (LLC, Partnership, Trust) Not Sure Are you currently receiving royalty checks? Select an option Yes No I Used To But They Stopped Not Sure Have you received offers for your minerals before? Select an option Yes No What best describes your situation? 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