# Sell Mineral Rights in Lavaca County, TX | Berlin Royalties

> Sell Lavaca County, TX mineral rights: Eagle Ford, Austin Chalk and Wilcox royalties near Hallettsville and Shiner. Free valuation, work shown.

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Where We Buy · Texas · Lavaca County

## Sell your Lavaca County mineral rights.

Hallettsville, Shiner, Yoakum: we buy minerals and royalties throughout Lavaca County, on the Eagle Ford's deep eastern edge.

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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](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/inherited-mineral-rights/texas/).

Formations & Plays

## What produces here

### Eagleville (Eagle Ford-2)

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.

### Austin Chalk and Edwards

Word (Austin Chalk) and Word North (Edwards): the fractured carbonates that were the county's first horizontal play and still pay.

### Wilcox gas

Mont and Provident City: deep Wilcox sands, tight gas wells with long lives and small, steady royalties.

Counties

## Communities we see in Lavaca County title

Hallettsville

Shiner

Yoakum

Moulton

Wherever your tract sits in Lavaca County, we will research it free and value it with the work shown.

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### Inherited Texas minerals?

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Questions

## Straight answers for Lavaca County owners

What are mineral rights worth in Lavaca County?
It depends on which zone is under your tract and whether anyone has drilled it. Lavaca County has 14,000-foot Eagle Ford laterals in the southwest, old Wilcox gas in the east, and a lot of acreage with nothing but a cow on it, so the spread between tracts is enormous. We value off the actual wells and permits and show the work, free.

How soon should my first royalty check arrive on a new Texas well?
Under Natural Resources Code 91.402, the first payment is due within 120 days after the end of the month of first sale. If a well near you came on months ago and nothing has arrived, that is usually a title or division order problem rather than a lost check, and we will help you track it down whether or not you sell.

A deed in my chain reserved half the minerals. Do I own what I think I own?
Maybe not, and that is a Texas-specific trap. Under the Duhig rule, a grantor who reserves minerals but warrants more than they actually hold loses the reservation to the extent of the shortfall. Old reservations are routinely overstated for this reason, and we read the deeds before we quote a number so the offer matches what you can actually convey.

What does it cost me to sell?
Nothing. Berlin pays all title work, document preparation, and recording costs. The offer you accept is the amount you receive.

## Before you sign anything in Lavaca County

The things owners here most often wish they had read first. All free, none of it gated.

- [How mineral rights are valued](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/mineral-rights-value/), including the rule of thumb people quote and why it is usually wrong

- [How to sell mineral rights](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/sell-mineral-rights/) and [how to sell oil and gas royalties](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/sell-oil-and-gas-royalties/), with the real process and timeline

- [Who buys mineral rights](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/who-buys-mineral-rights/), the five kinds of buyer compared, and [the companies that buy mineral rights](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/mineral-buyers/) and how to check them

- [The Pugh clause](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/pugh-clause/), the single most valuable sentence you can negotiate into a lease

- [What a farm out is](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/farmout-agreements/), and why your operator suddenly changed

- [The rule of capture](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/rule-of-capture/), and why a neighbor's well can legally drain your minerals

- [Non-participating royalty interests](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/non-participating-royalty-interest/), if your deed carved one out

- [Executive rights](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/executive-rights/), if somebody else signs the lease that binds your minerals

- [Surface owner rights](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/surface-owner-rights/), if you own the ground and someone else owns what is under it

- [Questions to ask a buyer](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/questions-to-ask/) and [what happens if you want out after signing](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/can-i-back-out-of-a-mineral-rights-sale/)

Free Valuation

## Find out what your Lavaca County minerals are worth.

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