Sell Western Haynesville Mineral Rights | Robertson, Leon, Freestone TX

Sell your Western Haynesville mineral rights.

A deep gas play that did not exist five years ago is being drilled under Robertson, Leon, and Freestone Counties. There is almost nothing published about it aimed at mineral owners, which means the people mailing you offers know considerably more than you do.

There is a deep gas play being drilled under Robertson, Leon, and Freestone Counties that did not exist five years ago, and if you own minerals there, almost nothing written for mineral owners covers it.

Berlin buys Western Haynesville minerals and royalties across all five counties, producing and non-producing.

What is actually happening

Comstock has pushed deep Bossier and Haynesville gas far west of the traditional fairway, into Robertson, Leon, and Freestone. The wells are among the deepest and hottest drilled in North America, which is exactly why nobody drilled them before: the completion technology and the downhole tooling had to catch up before the rock was reachable at all.

Wildfire Energy is separately consolidating Woodbine oil across Brazos, Madison, and Robertson, which means a good number of owners in the southern counties hold exposure to oil above and gas below on the same acreage.

County	Producing wells	Rigs	Permits, last 90 days
Robertson	1,704	4	25
Freestone	3,517	1	41
Leon	942	1	34
Madison	534	1	8
Brazos	1,436	1	4

The two assets problem

This is the thing to understand before you respond to any offer here.

Most of the wells currently producing in Freestone, Leon, and Robertson are old, shallow, long-life gas wells. Hilcorp operates roughly 1,869 in Freestone and 574 in Robertson; Diversified Energy operates about 1,142 in Freestone and 317 in Robertson. Both are long-life production companies rather than growth drillers. Those wells pay small monthly amounts, dependably, for a very long time.

Your check reflects those wells and nothing else.

It reflects nothing about whether the deep Bossier under your section is prospective. It reflects nothing about a permit filed a mile away last month. Those are a separate asset sitting on the same acreage, and there is no line on your statement where it appears.

An offer built as a multiple of your last twelve months of income is, by construction, an offer for only the first asset. In a mature field that is a defensible approach. In a play where 41 permits were approved in Freestone County in 90 days against a base of legacy shallow wells, it is not.

Why the information gap is the whole story here

New plays produce a specific kind of disadvantage for mineral owners, and this one is a textbook case.

No comps. Nobody in Robertson County has a neighbor who sold deep Bossier acreage last year at a known price.
No production history in your section to price the new zone against.
No coverage. Comstock is not promoting, and the trade press writes about the Haynesville core rather than its western edge.
Quiet counties. Robertson, Leon, and Freestone were legacy gas country five years ago and nobody was watching them.

Meanwhile, the party making you an offer is reading the permit filings, the completion reports, and the lease takes. That asymmetry is not an accusation of bad faith. It is just the structure, and it is at its widest in exactly the months when the first offers arrive.

The fix is not complicated. Find out what is permitted around you, who holds the acreage, and what your existing lease actually says. All three are knowable. We will look them up for you free.

What moves value here

Whether anything is permitted on or near your section. More than any other single input right now.
Whether you are already leased, and at what royalty. A deep, expensive Western Haynesville well drilled under an old one eighth lease is a very different result for you than the same well under a modern lease. See the Pugh clause, which decides whether one well ties up all your acreage and depths.
Depth severance. Some chains here separate shallow rights from deep rights. If yours does, that is the first thing to establish.
Which operator holds the acreage around you.
Gas price assumptions. Deep gas is priced off the forward curve, not the spot headline. Ask any buyer to state the deck they used.

Where to go next

Robertson, Leon, Freestone, Madison, and Brazos Counties
The East Texas Haynesville, the traditional fairway to the northeast
Texas mineral rights: Fasken v. Puig, Van Dyke, the Mineral Interest Pooling Act, and no state income tax
The rule of capture, which is why a permit next door is your business
How mineral rights are valued and when not to sell
Got an offer letter? and before you sign

Well, rig, and permit counts are sourced from Enverus and current as of August 2026. This is a new and fast-moving play and the numbers change monthly. Berlin Royalties is a mineral buyer and a landman shop in Tulsa, not a law firm or a tax advisor, and this page is general information rather than advice about your interest.

What's happening in Western Haynesville right now

Active Rigs

306

In the counties where we buy.

Permits, Last 90 Days

2100

New drilling permits in our counties.

Completions, Last 90 Days

106

New wells turned to sales.

Statewide totals for Western Haynesville. Source: Enverus, as of 2026-08-17. Rigs are currently active; permits are those approved in the last 90 days; completions are wells reporting first production in the last 90 days, which lags reporting by state. Activity like this moves mineral value. If it is happening near you, find out what your interest is worth before you take anyone's offer.

What produces here

Western Haynesville and deep Bossier

The play itself. Comstock has extended deep Bossier and Haynesville gas far west of the traditional East Texas and Louisiana fairway, into wells among the deepest and hottest drilled in North America.

Woodbine and Eagle Ford

The oil section above, worked hard by Wildfire Energy across Brazos, Madison, and Robertson. Many owners here hold exposure to both the oil above and the gas below.

Cotton Valley and Travis Peak

The conventional gas that has produced across Freestone and Leon for decades, and that accounts for most of the wells currently on the ground.

Legacy shallow production

Long-life gas held largely by Hilcorp and Diversified Energy. Slow, dependable, and easy to underprice with a simple income multiple.

Where we're most active

Robertson is the center of the play with four rigs running. Leon and Freestone are drawing the most permits. Madison and Brazos sit on the southern edge, where Wildfire Energy's Woodbine oil position overlaps the deep gas.

Straight answers for Western Haynesville owners

What is the Western Haynesville?

It is the westward extension of deep Bossier and Haynesville gas, far outside the traditional fairway along the Texas and Louisiana line. Comstock has been the driver, drilling in Robertson, Leon, and Freestone Counties into rock that is both deeper and hotter than the original Haynesville. Those conditions are why nobody drilled it until recently: the wells are expensive, the downhole temperatures are extreme, and the completion technology only caught up in the last few years. For a mineral owner the important part is that this is a genuinely new play, so there is no long production history in your section to price against and no established comps in the county records.

How active is it right now?

Modest in rig count and meaningful in permits. Robertson County has four rigs running, with one each in Leon, Freestone, Madison, and Brazos. Permits over the last 90 days are 41 in Freestone, 34 in Leon, 25 in Robertson, 8 in Madison, and 4 in Brazos. Set against Robertson's roughly 1,700 producing wells and Leon's 940, those permit counts are high ratios. What that tells you is that value here sits disproportionately in wells that have not been drilled yet, which is the hardest kind of interest for an owner to price and the easiest kind for a buyer to underpay for.

Why is there nothing written about this play?

Because it is new, because the operator driving it is not chasing coverage, and because the counties involved are not counties anyone associated with shale gas five years ago. Robertson, Leon, and Freestone were quiet legacy gas country. That information gap is not neutral. It means an offer arriving in your mailbox was priced by someone reading permit filings you have never seen, against a play you have no comps for. We are not going to pretend the gap does not exist; we would rather close it for you and let you decide.

My family has owned here for generations and the checks are tiny. Does the new play change that?

It might change it a great deal, and this is exactly the situation the play creates. Most of the producing wells in Freestone, Leon, and Robertson are old, shallow, long-life gas wells operated by Hilcorp and Diversified Energy, paying small monthly amounts. Your existing check reflects those. It reflects nothing about whether the deep Bossier under your section is prospective. Those are two entirely separate assets sitting on the same acreage, and only one of them shows up on your statement.

What should I do if I get an offer here?

Find out three things before you answer. Whether anything has been permitted on or near your section, which is public. Who holds the acreage around you, because a Comstock section and a section nobody has leased are different assets. And whether your minerals are leased already, and on what royalty, because a deep expensive well under an old one eighth lease is a very different outcome than under a modern lease. We will look all three up for you free, whether or not you ever sell anything to us.

Do you actually buy here?

Yes, across all five counties, in any size, including non-producing acreage. We pay all closing costs and we cure title at our own expense. And on acreage inside an advancing play, holding is frequently the better answer. When we think that, we say so.