Glen Rose, Nemo, Rainbow: we buy minerals and royalties throughout Somervell County, Barnett gas on the southern edge of the play.
Somervell County is Glen Rose, dinosaur tracks, Comanche Peak, and the southern end of the Barnett Shale. It is the second smallest county in Texas by area and has exactly three producing fields, seven operators, and no oil. The Barnett wells were drilled during the boom, Diversified and EagleRidge operate them now, and nothing new has been permitted this year. That is not a sales pitch; it is just what the county is.
What produces here. Railroad Commission production for August 2026: 157,939 Mcf of gas, 35 barrels of condensate, and no oil, from 3 fields and 7 operators. Newark East (Barnett Shale) makes more than 99 percent of it, with McIntosh (Strawn) and Somervell (Strawn) contributing a few thousand Mcf between them over the whole year. The operators you will see on checks and in the county records are Diversified Production (about two thirds of the gas), EagleRidge Operating, UPP Operating, and BKV North Texas, with Grissom Production, Vanco Oil and Gas, and Water Energy Services reporting no volume. The Commission approved no new drilling permits in Somervell County in 2026 through November 7.
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.
Nearly all of the county's production: horizontal Barnett gas wells drilled during the Barnett boom, now operated mostly by Diversified and EagleRidge, declining slowly and with no new permits.
Two tiny Strawn gas fields that round out one of the shortest field lists in Texas.
Wherever your tract sits in Somervell 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.
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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.