Crockett, Grapeland, Lovelady: we buy minerals and royalties throughout Houston County, quiet conventional acreage in the Trinity and Fort Trinidad fields.
Houston County is a quiet one, and this page is not going to dress it up. The Western Haynesville boom is in Robertson, Leon, Freestone and Limestone counties to the west, not here, and the Austin Chalk that runs under Grimes and Brazos has not produced anything worth naming in Houston County. What Crockett and Grapeland have is old vertical oil in the Trinity and Fort Trinidad fields and a lot of unleased pine land whose owners get the occasional offer from someone hoping the plays next door move east.
What produces here. Railroad Commission production for August 2026: 13,709 barrels of oil, 3,651 barrels of condensate, and about 113,000 Mcf of gas (19,000 casinghead, 94,000 gas well). The Trinity field makes the most oil, then Eastham State Farm (Glen Rose), Fort Trinidad South (Ottos Sand), Navarro Crossing (Upper Woodbine), and the Fort Trinidad Dexter wells; Decker Switch (Pettit and Travis Peak) and the Fort Trinidad Glen Rose wells carry the gas. The operators you will see on checks and in the county records include Parten Operating, Trailblazer Energy Resources, Kodiak Oil and Gas, Rusk Energy Operating, Maximus Operating, Urban Oil and Gas Group, Empire Texas Operating, Atlas Operating, and Big Creek Operating. The Commission approved 4 new drilling permits in 2026 through November 7, none horizontal: two shallow Walker Operating Patrick wells at 1,400 feet, a BKV dCarbon Ventures permit named Roadrunner at 9,000 feet, and a saltwater disposal well.
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 county's old oil fields on the Trinity River side: Trinity, Fort Trinidad (Dexter, Glen Rose, Ottos Sand), and Eastham State Farm (Glen Rose), all vertical, all modest.
The gas fields on the Cherokee County line, small vertical wells with long lives.
A little Upper Woodbine oil near Grapeland; Houston County has no Austin Chalk or Haynesville production of note.
Wherever your tract sits in Houston County, we will research it free and value it with the work shown.
We buy in every Texas county, including ones without a page here. See the full county index, or start with how to sell Texas mineral rights.
Whether you need a probate, the affidavit and transfer on death routes, the dormant mineral rules, and where unpaid royalties go: inherited mineral rights in Texas, what heirs should do.
What Texas mineral rights are worth, information only, with this month's activity.
Everything a Texas owner needs in one place: who owns what under state law, how royalties must be paid and by when, what a buyer can and cannot deduct, the tax treatment of a sale, and the deadlines that quietly cost people their minerals. Free, and no sign-up.
Read the Texas guideEvery oil and gas operator in Texas, with contact information, refreshed from the state regulator. Free to search, and useful whether or not you ever sell anything.
The things owners here most often wish they had read first. All free, none of it gated.
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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.