Tyler, Lindale, Whitehouse: we buy minerals and royalties throughout Smith County, Cotton Valley gas and the western edge of the East Texas Field.
Smith County is Tyler, roses, and a lot of mineral owners who do not know they are mineral owners. The East Texas Field clips the southeastern corner at Overton, the Cotton Valley gas fields under it have produced since the 1970s, and the rest of the county is pine timber with scattered old wells. The checks are small and the title is old, which is exactly the kind of interest most buyers skip.
What produces here. Railroad Commission production for August 2026: 77,234 barrels of oil, 8,332 barrels of condensate, and about 1.19 million Mcf of gas (56,000 casinghead, 1.14 million gas well), from about 110 fields and 79 operators. Overton (Cotton Valley Sand) makes most of the gas, with Chapel Hill (Cotton Valley), Overton (Travis Peak), and Overton (Haynesville) behind it; Girlie Caldwell (Goodland Lime), Overton (Travis Peak), and Sand Flat lead the oil. The operators you will see on checks and in the county records include Sabine Energy (the largest gas producer), Diversified Production, Faulconer Energy, Valence Operating, Vess Oil, Maximus Operating, John Linder Operating, Goldston Oil, and Culver and Cain Production. The Commission approved 6 new horizontal drilling permits in 2026 through November 7: Valence Operating's Luscombe B, McCrary and Melodye wells and Sabine Oil and Gas Corporation's three Sallie Warren 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.
Overton (Cotton Valley Sand) and Chapel Hill (Cotton Valley) are the county's gas engine: tight sands drilled vertically for decades and now horizontally by Sabine and Valence.
Overton (Travis Peak) and Noonday (Travis Peak) oil and gas, plus a few Overton (Haynesville) wells on the county's eastern edge.
Girlie Caldwell (Goodland Lime), Sand Flat, and Hitts Lake (Paluxy): small old oil fields still paying stripper royalties.
Wherever your tract sits in Smith 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.