Hallettsville, Shiner, Yoakum: we buy minerals and royalties throughout Lavaca County, on the Eagle Ford's deep eastern edge.
Lavaca County is Czech and German farm country that found itself on the deep edge of the Eagle Ford. The wells here are expensive, the operator list is short, and most of the county is not in a unit at all. That makes title and location matter more than usual: the same quarter section is worth a great deal or very little depending on which side of a lease line it sits.
What produces here. Railroad Commission production for August 2026: 475,337 barrels of oil, 109,538 barrels of condensate, and about 2.35 million Mcf of gas (1.14 million casinghead, 1.21 million gas well). Eagleville (Eagle Ford-2) makes nearly all of the oil; Mont (Wilcox 10,900), Word North (Edwards), and Word (Austin Chalk) carry the older gas. The operators you will see on checks and in the county records include FW Eagle Ford I (by far the largest oil producer), Capital Star Oil and Gas, EOG Resources, Matrix Petroleum, Marathon Oil EF (ConocoPhillips), Modern Exploration, Fowler Oil and Gas, Hilcorp, and Merit Energy. The Commission approved 26 new drilling permits in 2026 through November 7, 21 of them horizontal: FW Eagle Ford I 15, PetroVybe 4, EOG 4, and FW Eagle Ford's Blonde and Korriban pads were approved in September and October.
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 deep eastern Eagle Ford, drilled at 11,500 to 14,500 feet, where a single operator produces most of the county's oil and the laterals are long and expensive.
Word (Austin Chalk) and Word North (Edwards): the fractured carbonates that were the county's first horizontal play and still pay.
Mont and Provident City: deep Wilcox sands, tight gas wells with long lives and small, steady royalties.
Wherever your tract sits in Lavaca County, we will research it free and value it with the work shown.
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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.