Where We Buy · California · Los Angeles County

Sell your Los Angeles County minerals, Long Beach included.

Wilmington, Signal Hill, Inglewood, Santa Fe Springs: town-lot minerals under one of the great oil basins on earth, and almost nobody left who will buy them. We will.

The Los Angeles Basin is, acre for acre, one of the most prolific oil provinces ever found, and its minerals were subdivided along with its neighborhoods. The result is hundreds of thousands of small inherited fractions under Long Beach, Signal Hill, Santa Fe Springs, and the harbor, held by families who often cannot find a single buyer willing to research them.

We buy them. Producing town-lot royalties, unleased fractions, interests in the Wilmington and Signal Hill units, whatever landed in your family from a great-grandparent who bought a lot in the boom. We run the title, value the interest off the unit's actual production, and show the work. And when an interest is genuinely too small or too burdened to be worth selling, we will tell you that for free instead of wasting your time.

Formations & Plays

What produces here

Wilmington

The giant beneath Long Beach and the harbor, historically one of the largest fields in the country, produced from the shore and the island drill sites offshore.

Signal Hill (Long Beach)

The 1921 discovery that set off the LA oil boom and covered the hill with derricks. Still producing beneath a city that grew over it.

Inglewood

The Baldwin Hills field, urban production managed under some of the strictest oversight anywhere.

Santa Fe Springs and Montebello

Boom-era giants east of downtown whose units still pay royalties to thousands of small town-lot owners.

Brea-Olinda and the basin edge

Legacy production along the basin's northeastern rim, some of the oldest continuously producing wells in the state.

Counties

Communities we see in LA Basin title

Long Beach Signal Hill Wilmington Inglewood Santa Fe Springs Montebello Whittier Torrance

Wherever your interest sits in Los Angeles County, we will research it free and value it with the work shown.

Questions

Straight answers for Los Angeles County owners

I own a tiny fraction under a city lot in Long Beach. Is it worth anything?
Often, yes. Town-lot minerals were subdivided with the neighborhoods a century ago, so LA Basin interests are frequently small fractions of small lots pooled into producing units. Most buyers will not research an interest that small. We do, we value it off the unit's production, and we buy it.
Didn't Los Angeles ban oil drilling?
The City of Los Angeles moved to phase out drilling inside city limits, and litigation and amortization timelines will play out over years. Long Beach, Signal Hill, and the county's other producing cities are separate jurisdictions, and existing wells across the basin continue to produce and pay. We track the ordinances so you do not have to, and we price each interest by its actual unit and operator.
What paperwork do I need to sell an LA Basin interest?
Whatever you have: a royalty check stub, a division order, an old deed, or just an address and a story. Title in town-lot country is genuinely tangled, and untangling it is our job, at our cost, not yours.
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