Yuba City, Live Oak, Sutter: we buy minerals and royalties throughout Sutter County, the Sutter Buttes and Grimes gas fields.
Sutter County is gas country wrapped around a volcano. The Sutter Buttes trapped gas on every side, the Grimes field runs down the river toward Colusa County, and together they make Sutter the biggest gas producer in the Sacramento Basin, with about 200 wells still on line. The royalties are small and the leases are old, and a lot of them are owned by rice farming families who have never been told what the interest is worth.
What produces here. CalGEM's 2023 annual report, the latest county table it has published, put Sutter County at 2,570,582 Mcf of gas and no oil for the year, the most gas of any county in the Sacramento Basin. CalGEM's WellSTAR records as of November 2026 show 200 active wells, 171 of them operated by California Resources Production Corporation, with Caballero Operations (15), Maranatha Petroleum (8), Concordia Resources (3) and Mentren (2) making up the rest; the Grimes field holds 93 of the active wells and Sutter Buttes 79, with Sutter City, Tisdale, West Butte, Sycamore and Robbins the smaller fields. No new wells show a 2024 or later spud date in the county's records.
Whatever you own here, producing royalties, non-producing acreage, or an inherited fraction split among family, we will identify it from whatever paperwork you have, value it off the actual wells and activity, and show you the reasoning with the offer. Free, no obligation, and no pressure: if keeping it is the right answer, we will say so. Inherited it? Start with inherited mineral rights in California.
Dry gas trapped around the Sutter Buttes volcanic neck and in the Grimes field along the Sacramento River, about 200 active wells, nearly all operated by California Resources Production Corporation.
Smaller gas fields on the flanks of the Buttes worked by Caballero Operations, Maranatha Petroleum and Concordia Resources.
Wherever your tract sits in Sutter County, we will research it free and value it with the work shown.
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Prefer the phone? Call or text 918-984-1645 and you will get Stephen, the owner, not a call center. If we miss you, we text back the same day.
In a hurry? Text a photo of a royalty check stub to 918-984-1645 and our preliminary offer puts a written number in front of you within about two business days. It holds for 7 while you decide.