Stephenville, Dublin, Bluff Dale: we buy minerals and royalties throughout Erath County, on the Barnett's southwestern edge.
Erath County is dairy cows, Tarleton State, and the far southwestern edge of the Barnett Shale, where the play thinned out and the drilling stopped. EagleRidge keeps the Newark East wells flowing, the Marble Falls and Big Saline wells chip in, and the old Desdemona field in the western corner makes a few barrels a month. If you own minerals here you probably inherited them with a farm, and the honest answer about their value is a short one.
What produces here. Railroad Commission production for August 2026: 84,488 Mcf of gas, 235 barrels of condensate, and no oil reported, from 27 fields and 55 operators; the county's oil in other 2026 months ran about 30 barrels. Newark East (Barnett Shale) makes about 85 percent of the gas, with Rector (Marble Falls), X-Ray (Marble Falls), Big Sunday Creek (Big Saline), and Liberty Oak (Big Saline) behind it. The operators you will see on checks and in the county records include EagleRidge Operating (most of the Barnett), Stephens and Johnson Operating, Oakridge Oil and Gas, Hexagon Oil and Gas, Crossbow Resources, IPR Energy Partners, Owl Creek Operating, and Morris R. Greenhaw Oil and Gas. The Commission approved no new drilling permits in Erath County in 2026 through November 7.
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 southwestern tail of the Barnett, where horizontal gas wells drilled in the late 2000s make most of the county's gas and nobody has permitted a new one in 2026.
Rector and X-Ray (Marble Falls), Big Sunday Creek and Liberty Oak (Big Saline): shallow conventional gas around Stephenville and Dublin.
The old Desdemona field in the county's western corner, now a few barrels a month and a chapter in the county history.
Wherever your tract sits in Erath County, we will research it free and value it with the work shown.
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