Longview, Kilgore, Gladewater: we buy minerals and royalties throughout Gregg County, home of the East Texas Oil Field at Kilgore.
Gregg County is Kilgore, and Kilgore is the East Texas Oil Field: 1930, Dad Joiner, more than a thousand derricks downtown at the peak. Ninety-six years later the field is still producing, the wells are stripper wells, and the royalties have been divided through four generations of heirs until the checks are small and the title is a thicket. Under all of that is Cotton Valley gas, and lately Haynesville, which is where the new money is.
What produces here. Railroad Commission production for August 2026: 95,154 barrels of oil, 26,566 barrels of condensate, and about 2.12 million Mcf of gas (37,000 casinghead, 2.08 million gas well). The East Texas field still leads the oil; Willow Springs (Cotton Valley) leads the gas by a wide margin, followed by Carthage (Haynesville Shale), Oak Hill (Cotton Valley), Glenwood (Cotton Valley), and Gladewater (Haynesville), and county gas jumped from about 1.1 million Mcf in May to more than 2 million Mcf in July and August 2026 as new horizontal wells came on. The operators you will see on checks and in the county records include BASA Resources (the largest East Texas Field operator here), Sabine Energy (the largest gas producer), Faulconer Energy, TGNR East Texas, Dallas Production, Diversified Production, Buffco Production, John Linder Operating, and 4-Sight Operating, with roughly 100 operators reporting. Drilling is modest: the Commission approved 3 new horizontal permits in 2026 through November 7 (Rose City Resources' Beaver Creek and Vail wells and Buffco's Longview North-Henderson 1H on November 2), plus amended permits on Sabine Energy's Evans and Hamby Heirs allocation 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.
Discovered in 1930, the largest oil field in the lower 48 by volume recovered, with Kilgore, Gladewater and Overton sitting on it; today it is thousands of shallow stripper wells paying small, very old royalties.
The tight-gas sands under the Longview and White Oak area that carry most of the county's gas and that Sabine Energy is still drilling horizontally.
Carthage (Haynesville Shale) and Gladewater (Haynesville) wells on the county's eastern and northern edges, a small but growing share of the gas.
Wherever your tract sits in Gregg County, we will research it free and value it with the work shown.
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