Visalia, Porterville, Terra Bella: we buy minerals and royalties throughout Tulare County, the Deer Creek field on the far eastern edge of the San Joaquin Basin.
Tulare County is orchards, dairies and one skinny oil field. Deer Creek, between Porterville and Terra Bella, has pumped small amounts of shallow oil for decades from wells that produce a few barrels a day each, and the rest of the county's mineral estate is the kind nobody has leased in living memory. Owners here are mostly families who kept the minerals when the farm sold.
What produces here. CalGEM's 2023 annual report, the latest county table it has published, put Tulare County at 28,509 barrels of oil and no gas for the year. CalGEM's WellSTAR records as of November 2026 show 66 active wells in the county against 670 plugged, 65 of the active wells in the Deer Creek field, operated by Petro-Lud (42 wells), Modus (10), Pentarch Petroleum (9) and a few one-well companies. No new wells show a 2024 or later spud date in the county's records, so what you own here is legacy stripper oil or non-producing acreage.
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.
A narrow shallow oil field along Deer Creek between Porterville and Terra Bella, the county's only producing field, worked by Petro-Lud, Modus and Pentarch Petroleum from about 65 active wells.
The rest of Tulare County has had wells drilled and abandoned for a century with little to show for it; most minerals here are non-producing and pass down with the orchards.
Wherever your tract sits in Tulare County, we will research it free and value it with the work shown.
We buy in every California county, including ones without a page here. See the full county index, or start with how to sell California mineral rights.
Whether you need a probate, the affidavit and transfer on death routes, the dormant mineral rules, and where unpaid royalties go: inherited mineral rights in California, what heirs should do.
What California mineral rights are worth, information only, with this month's activity. Unclaimed California royalties: where the money goes and how an heir claims it.
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.
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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.