Gilmer, Gladewater, Big Sandy: we buy minerals and royalties throughout Upshur County, Cotton Valley gas around Gilmer.
Upshur County is a gas county that most people, including some of its mineral owners, think of as a timber county. The Gilmer Cotton Valley field has been producing since the 1970s, the Gladewater end of the county sits on the north tip of the East Texas Field, and almost nobody is drilling. That makes the royalties here mature, predictable, and routinely underpriced by buyers who only chase new wells.
What produces here. Railroad Commission production for August 2026: 4,974 barrels of oil, 16,389 barrels of condensate, and about 1.70 million Mcf of gas (2,000 casinghead, 1.70 million gas well). Gilmer (Cotton Valley Sands) makes the majority of the gas, followed by Gladewater (Haynesville), Rosewood (Cotton Valley), Gilmer (Jurassic), Glenwood (Cotton Valley), and Delrose (Haynesville); the East Texas field is the only oil of note. The operators you will see on checks and in the county records include Sabine Energy (the largest by far), Faulconer Energy, Tischer Energy, Sulphur River Exploration, Diversified Production, Tanos Exploration IV, McBee Operating, Rose City Resources, and BASA Resources, 48 operators in all. New drilling is scarce: the Commission approved 3 new horizontal permits in 2026 through November 7, from Sabine Oil and Gas (Hill LC-Breyer B), Tanos Exploration IV (Tuel-Bogel Gas Unit 2), and Pioneer Natural Resources USA (Pembrook Unit).
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 main gas field, tight Cotton Valley sands under Gilmer that make most of Upshur's 1.7 million Mcf a month.
The secondary Cotton Valley fields and the deeper Jurassic (Cotton Valley Lime) gas, long-lived vertical wells with small steady royalties.
A handful of Haynesville wells on the Gladewater side, and the northern tip of the East Texas Oil Field for oil.
Wherever your tract sits in Upshur County, we will research it free and value it with the work shown.
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