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

> Sell Upshur County, TX mineral rights: Gilmer Cotton Valley gas royalties near Gilmer and Gladewater, countywide. Free valuation with the work shown.

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Where We Buy · Texas · Upshur County

## Sell your Upshur County mineral rights.

Gilmer, Gladewater, Big Sandy: we buy minerals and royalties throughout Upshur County, Cotton Valley gas around Gilmer.

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

Formations & Plays

## What produces here

### Gilmer (Cotton Valley Sands)

The county's main gas field, tight Cotton Valley sands under Gilmer that make most of Upshur's 1.7 million Mcf a month.

### Rosewood and Glenwood Cotton Valley, Gilmer Jurassic

The secondary Cotton Valley fields and the deeper Jurassic (Cotton Valley Lime) gas, long-lived vertical wells with small steady royalties.

### Gladewater and Delrose Haynesville

A handful of Haynesville wells on the Gladewater side, and the northern tip of the East Texas Oil Field for oil.

Counties

## Communities we see in Upshur County title

Gilmer

Gladewater

Big Sandy

Ore City

Wherever your tract sits in Upshur 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 Upshur County owners

What are mineral rights worth in Upshur County?
It depends on whether your tract is in the Gilmer Cotton Valley units or in the timber country to the north, how old the wells are, and your decimal. Upshur County is a gas county with almost no oil and very little new drilling, so most interests here are mature royalties priced off decline, not off upside. We value off the actual wells and show the work, free.

Does Texas have a dormant mineral act that can take unused minerals?
No. Texas has no dormant mineral statute, so an unleased, unproduced mineral interest stays in the family indefinitely. What does happen is that royalty money an operator cannot deliver goes to the Texas Comptroller as unclaimed property after three years, where it waits at ClaimItTexas. We check it for every owner we talk to.

Can I be force-pooled in Texas?
Not the way Oklahoma or Louisiana owners are. Texas has no general forced pooling; the Mineral Interest Pooling Act is narrow and rarely used. Your tract joins a unit because you or a prior owner signed a lease with a pooling clause or a ratification, so the lease language, not a commission order, decides what you are owed.

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 Upshur 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/)

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

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