# Sell Haynesville Shale Mineral Rights, Louisiana | Berlin Royalties > Sell Haynesville Shale minerals and royalties in DeSoto, Caddo, Red River, Bossier, Bienville and Sabine Parishes. LNG demand, current operators, and honest valuations with the work shown. Source: https://www.berlinroyalties.com/louisiana/haynesville-shale/ 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 · Louisiana · Haynesville Shale ## Sell your Haynesville Shale mineral rights. DeSoto, Caddo, Red River, Bossier and the edge parishes: the hottest gas play in America is drilling under north Louisiana again, and LNG is the reason. [Get a Free Valuation](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/free-valuation/) or call or text [918-984-1645](tel:9189841645) The Haynesville broke out in DeSoto Parish in 2008, minted a generation of north Louisiana royalty owners, then spent a decade as a boom the industry talked about in the past tense. It is not past tense now. Rig activity in the play roughly doubled between early 2025 and the middle of 2026, back to levels not seen in years, and the reason is sitting on the Gulf Coast: LNG export terminals, Plaquemines LNG chief among them, pulling billions of cubic feet a day of new demand from the closest deep gas basin in the country. The operator map changed with the cycle. Expand Energy, the Chesapeake and Southwestern combination, anchors the Louisiana core. Aethon's wells became Adamas Energy's when Mitsubishi bought the business in mid 2026. Comstock keeps drilling, and Apex has emerged as the play's most aggressive newcomer. For owners, consolidation means division orders, payor names, and deduction practices are changing hands at exactly the moment checks are getting interesting again. For a Louisiana mineral owner, this cycle arrives with the usual Haynesville complications: units and stacked benches, some of the most expensive wells drilled onshore, severance tax that comes off before your royalty is figured, and, underneath everything, the [ten year servitude rule](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/louisiana-mineral-servitude/) deciding who owns what. We track the play's permits, rigs and units from the courthouse side, we buy for our own account, and we show every seller the arithmetic behind the number. If your minerals sit anywhere under the parishes below, we will tell you what the drilling around your tract actually means, free, whether or not you ever sell. Formations & Plays ## What produces here ### Haynesville Shale Deep, hot, high pressure dry gas, drilled with some of the longest and most expensive laterals onshore. The play broke out in DeSoto Parish in 2008 and is in its strongest cycle since. ### Bossier Shale The stacked bench above the Haynesville, named for Bossier Parish, adding a second inventory layer across much of the core. ### Cotton Valley & Hosston The shallower tight gas that predates the shale, often held by the same units and often the reason an old family servitude stayed alive. Counties ## Where we're most active [DeSoto Parish](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/louisiana/desoto-parish/) [Caddo Parish](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/louisiana/caddo-parish/) [Red River Parish](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/louisiana/red-river-parish/) [Bossier Parish](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/louisiana/bossier-parish/) [Bienville Parish](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/louisiana/bienville-parish/) [Sabine Parish](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/louisiana/sabine-parish/) [Webster Parish](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/louisiana/webster-parish/) [Natchitoches Parish](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/louisiana/natchitoches-parish/) DeSoto carries the most drilling, with Caddo and Red River next. Bienville, Sabine, Webster and Natchitoches hold the edges, where being inside or outside a unit is most of the answer. We buy across all of it. ### The Louisiana mineral owner's guide Everything a Louisiana 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 Louisiana guide](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/guide/louisiana/) Questions ## Straight answers for Haynesville Shale owners What are Haynesville mineral rights worth right now? More than they were two years ago, if your tract is in the path of the drilling. Rig activity in the play roughly doubled between early 2025 and mid 2026, and value follows the units: developed units with producing wells are valued off cash flow, while acreage ahead of the rigs carries location value that changes parish by parish and section by section. We price off the actual units and wells touching your tract and show you the work, free. Why is the Haynesville so busy again? LNG. The play sits closer to the Gulf Coast export terminals than any other major gas basin, and a wave of new capacity, Plaquemines LNG among it, started pulling several billion cubic feet a day of new demand through 2025 and 2026. Operators are drilling into that demand. It is the clearest link between a world event and a royalty check that this business offers. Who is drilling the Louisiana Haynesville now? Expand Energy, the company formed by the Chesapeake and Southwestern merger, is the biggest presence in the Louisiana core. Adamas Energy, the Mitsubishi company that took over Aethon's Haynesville business in 2026, Comstock Resources, and an aggressive newcomer in Apex are all running rigs, with BPX, EXCO and others active. If your royalty checks still say Aethon, Adamas is why the name is changing. Is the Western Haynesville in Louisiana? No. The Western Haynesville that shows up in headlines is a Texas extension of the play, in Robertson, Leon and Freestone Counties, being proven up by Comstock. The Louisiana Haynesville is the original core under the northwest parishes, and it is where the bulk of the play's production and drilling still lives. I never signed a lease and there is a well in my unit. What am I owed? Louisiana treats unleased owners in compulsory units better than most states. The operator sells your share and must account to you for it, and after Self v. BPX, decided by the Louisiana Supreme Court in 2024, an operator cannot charge post production costs against an unleased owner's share. If you have been getting unleased owner checks, or no checks, send us the paperwork and we will read it free. Does the ten year servitude rule matter in the Haynesville? It matters most here, because this is where the money is. A servitude kept alive by old Cotton Valley production may cover the Haynesville below it; a servitude that prescribed in a quiet decade means the landowner, not the mineral heirs, owns the shale. We check the servitude question first on every Louisiana valuation, free. What does it cost me to sell? Nothing. Berlin pays all title work, document preparation, and recording costs. The offer you accept is the amount you receive. ## Before you sign anything in Haynesville Shale 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 Haynesville Shale 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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