Gonzales, Nixon, Smiley: we buy minerals and royalties throughout Gonzales County, in the Eagle Ford's northeastern oil window.
Gonzales County is the Eagle Ford's oil end, and it is EOG country. The wells here make oil, not gas, which matters when gas is cheap and oil is not, and the operators are still permitting pads of eight laterals at a time. If your grandparents owned land between Gonzales and Nixon, there is a decent chance a unit has been drawn around it.
What produces here. Railroad Commission production for August 2026: 1,861,271 barrels of oil, 83,637 barrels of condensate, and about 2.64 million Mcf of gas (2.35 million casinghead, 290,000 gas well), almost all from Eagleville (Eagle Ford-1), with Eagleville (Eagle Ford-2) and Southern Bay (Eagle Ford) behind it. The operators you will see on checks and in the county records include EOG Resources (far and away the largest), FW Eagle Ford I, Marathon Oil EF (part of ConocoPhillips since November 2024), Magnolia Oil and Gas, Silver Hill Energy, Warwick-Artemis, Auterra Operating, Zarvona Energy, and Devon. The Commission approved 68 new drilling permits in 2026 through November 7, 67 of them horizontal: EOG 22, FW Eagle Ford I 19, Silver Hill 12, Marathon 7, and EOG's nine-well Grand Teton pad and FW Eagle Ford's four-well DuBose 2 pad were approved in late October. Magnolia also added 616 net acres in Gonzales County in 2026 to a contiguous block it is consolidating for drilling.
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 oil-heavy northeastern end of the Eagle Ford trend, where EOG is the dominant operator, drilled at 10,500 to 12,500 feet and still being filled in with new pads.
First Shot, Pilgrim, Smiley, and Mag: the fractured chalk that was drilled horizontally here in the 1990s and now gets picked up as a second target on Eagle Ford leases.
Wherever your tract sits in Gonzales County, we will research it free and value it with the work shown.
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