Brenham, Burton, Chappell Hill: we buy minerals and royalties throughout Washington County, in the gas-rich southern end of the Giddings Austin Chalk.
Washington County is Brenham, bluebonnets, and the deep southern end of the Giddings chalk, which here makes more gas and condensate than oil. Magnolia has permitted 23 wells in the county this year, GeoSouthern is drilling 13,500-foot allocation wells, and on the shallow end Aethon is punching 2,000-foot Clay Creek wells near Chappell Hill. It is a short operator list and a lot of landowners who did not know the chalk under their pasture was still being drilled.
What produces here. Railroad Commission production for August 2026: 34,835 barrels of oil, 450,158 barrels of condensate, and about 6.2 million Mcf of gas (139,000 casinghead, 6.06 million gas well), from only 10 fields: Giddings (Austin Chalk-3) and Giddings (Austin Chalk, Gas) make almost all of it, with Clay Creek, Navasota River (Lower Cretaceous), and Wind Hill (Taylor) the remainder. The operators you will see on checks and in the county records include Magnolia Oil and Gas (most of the county), GeoSouthern Operating II, WildFire Energy Operating (now part of Magnolia), Verdun Oil and Gas, Hyperion Oil and Gas, Paleo Oil, Redbud E and P, and Aethon Energy Operating. The Commission approved 43 new drilling permits in 2026 through November 7, 26 of them horizontal: Magnolia 23 (the Big Al, Buzz, Means C and MacArthur wells at 12,000 feet), Aethon 17 (vertical Clay Creek East and West Unit wells at 2,000 feet, the latest approved October 29), and GeoSouthern 3 (the GSWF Alpha and Bravo allocation wells, approved October 2).
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 southern, deeper, gas-and-condensate end of the Giddings chalk, drilled at about 12,000 feet, where Magnolia makes most of the county's 6 million Mcf a month.
The gas-classified chalk wells, GeoSouthern's main position, which add another 2 billion cubic feet a year.
A shallow oil field near Chappell Hill at about 2,000 feet, where Aethon Energy permitted 17 new vertical wells in 2026.
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