# Sell Mineral Rights in Los Angeles County & Long Beach, CA > Selling mineral rights in Los Angeles County? Berlin buys town-lot minerals and royalties in Long Beach, Signal Hill, Wilmington, Inglewood, and Santa Fe Springs. Source: https://www.berlinroyalties.com/california/los-angeles-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 · 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. [Get a Free Valuation](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/free-valuation/) or call or text [918-984-1645](tel:9189841645) 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. Nearby ## Other California counties we buy in [Fresno County](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/california/fresno-county/)[Kern County](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/california/kern-county/)[Kings County](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/california/kings-county/)[Monterey County](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/california/monterey-county/)[Orange County](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/california/orange-county/)[Santa Barbara County](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/california/santa-barbara-county/)[Ventura County](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/california/ventura-county/) We buy in every California county, including ones without a page here. 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 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. ## Before you sign anything in Los Angeles 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 Los Angeles 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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