Caldwell, Somerville, Snook: we buy minerals and royalties throughout Burleson County, in the Giddings field revival.
Burleson County is the center of the Giddings revival. The 1980s chalk wells under Caldwell and Somerville had dwindled to strippers when WildFire Energy showed that the Eagle Ford underneath them would make oil with a modern lateral, and the county now produces more than 700,000 barrels a month. In September 2026 Magnolia bought WildFire for about 4 billion dollars, so the name on the check is about to change again. If your grandparents signed a chalk lease in the 1980s, this is the county where that old paper matters most.
What produces here. Railroad Commission production for July 2026 (August is still being reported): 718,142 barrels of oil, 2,203 barrels of condensate, and about 626,000 Mcf of gas (591,000 casinghead, 35,000 gas well), from Giddings (Eagleford), Giddings (Austin Chalk-3), and Aguila Vado (Eagleford), with Madisonville West (Woodbine) and Giddings (Buda) behind them. The operators you will see on checks and in the county records include WildFire Energy Operating (about 90 percent of the county's oil this year, acquired by Magnolia Oil and Gas in a deal announced July 20 and completed September 10, 2026), Magnolia Oil and Gas, Trailblazer Energy Resources, Atlas Operating, Ernest Operating, Betro, Ginger Petroleum, and Rusk Energy Operating. The Commission approved 15 new horizontal drilling permits in 2026 through November 7: WildFire 7 and Magnolia 8, every one of Magnolia's since September 22, including the Breck, Kelly, Mutt and Stefka Eagle Ford units and the Ascari and Charlotte Nicole 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 Texas.
The shallow Eagle Ford under the old Giddings chalk, 7,600 to 9,000 feet, drilled by WildFire in recent years and now by Magnolia, which bought WildFire in September 2026.
The fractured chalk that was drilled in the 1980s and 1990s and is being redrilled with modern laterals on the same leases.
Giddings (Buda) and Madisonville West (Woodbine) on the Brazos County side: small but real.
Wherever your tract sits in Burleson County, we will research it free and value it with the work shown.
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