Yazoo City, Bentonia, Satartia: we buy minerals and royalties throughout Yazoo County, home of Tinsley, the field that started Mississippi oil in 1939.
Yazoo County is where Mississippi oil began. Union Producing's G.C. Woodruff No. 1 came in at Tinsley in September 1939, and the same structure is still the county's whole story: it went from primary production to waterflood to CO2 flood, and the royalty fractions under it have been through three or four generations of Woodruffs, Tinsleys, and everyone they sold to. Most of the owners we hear from have a check from Tinsley and a deed that does not explain it.
What produces here. Mississippi State Oil and Gas Board production for October 2025: 214 wells, 67,822 barrels of oil, and no gas reported. Tinsley is almost all of it. The Tinsley CO2 oil pool made 62,607 barrels from 103 wells that month, with the Tinsley Northeast Stevens unit and the Woodruff sand adding a few thousand more, and CO2 injection there dates to January 2007 with first tertiary response in 2008. The Bentonia unit added 662 barrels from 6 wells. The operators you will see on checks and in the county records are Highmark Energy Operating at Tinsley, Aria Operating at Bentonia, and Southern Energy Operating on the shut-in Mechanicsburg wells.
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 Mississippi.
Mississippi's first oil field, found by Union Producing's G.C. Woodruff No. 1 in September 1939, now a CO2 flood of the Woodruff sand that still makes most of the county's oil.
The Bentonia unit and the Hosston, Rodessa, Mooringsport, and Paluxy pools that pay smaller, older royalties around the Tinsley dome.
Wherever your tract sits in Yazoo 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.