Direct buyer · Not a broker
We buy mineral rights and royalties in East Texas.
Family interests in the Haynesville, Bossier, Cotton Valley, Austin Chalk and Eagle Ford. We make a cash offer in three business days, and we pay every cost of the sale.
- Call or text 936-289-3438. No fees, no commissions, no closing costs to you
- We buy with our own money, so an offer is an offer
- Sell all of it, or sell part and keep the rest
- You keep every royalty check until the day we close
Would rather just talk to somebody? Call or text (936) 289-3438 and ask for whoever is around. We answer our own phone.
What are yours worth?
Tell us where they are. We will look them up ourselves and call you with a number. No cost, no obligation.
Who we hear from
Most of the people who call us are in one of these spots.
If any of this sounds like your situation, you are in the right place. There is nothing unusual about it and there is no wrong answer.
You inherited them.Your father or grandmother owned land in East Texas, the surface was sold long ago, and the minerals came to you and your siblings. You have never seen the property.
The check is small and the paperwork is not.A hundred dollars some months, nothing other months, and a stack of 1099s every January from operators you have never heard of.
Three of you own it and cannot agree.One wants to hold, one wants cash, one has not returned a call since 2019. Selling is the only thing that gets everyone paid.
You do not know what you own.You have a division order in a drawer and no idea how many acres it represents or whether it is worth anything. We can tell you.
Somebody sent you an offer.You got a letter with a number on it and you want to know if it is fair before you sign anything. Get a second one. It costs you nothing.
You need the money now.A house, a medical bill, a business, a grandchild's tuition. Minerals are one of the few things you can turn into cash in about a month.
How it works
Three steps, about thirty days, and you never leave the house.
Day one
You call, or you fill out the form
Tell us the county and your name. That is genuinely all we need to start. We pull the county records, the appraisal district roll and the Railroad Commission production history ourselves. You do not have to find any paperwork.
Within three business days
We call you with a number and explain it
Not a range, not a teaser. A specific cash price, and a plain explanation of how we got there: what is producing, how old the wells are, what the operator has permitted nearby. If we think you should hold, we will tell you that too.
Two to four weeks
We handle the rest and wire you the money
We run title at our expense, prepare the deed, send a notary to you if you want one, record with the county clerk and notify the operator. You keep every royalty check until closing. Nothing comes out of your proceeds.
Where we buy
20 East Texas and Central Texas counties.
We are not a national outfit with a call center. We buy in a defined area we actually know, which is why we can price a tract in three days instead of three weeks. Pick your county for local activity, operators and recent permits.
What we buy
If it pays you or it might, we will look at it.
| Type | What that means |
|---|---|
| Mineral rights | You own the minerals under a tract, whether or not anyone has drilled it |
| Royalty interests | You get a share of production and pay none of the costs |
| Overriding royalty (ORRI) | Usually carved out of a lease, often from a landman or geologist in the family |
| Non-participating royalty (NPRI) | You get royalty but do not sign leases or collect bonus |
| Non-operated working interest | You get a share of production and pay a share of the costs. Yes, we buy these. |
| Non-producing minerals | Nothing drilled yet. Worth less, sometimes worth something, always worth a look. |
There is no size limit in either direction. We buy a single interest in one unit, and we buy whole family positions spread across several counties. If your piece feels too small to bother with, call anyway. Small interests in the same tract usually belong to relatives, and we would rather work with the whole family at once than pick people off one at a time.
If what you have is large, say so on the first call. We move on those differently and we have the relationships to close them.
Straight talk
What your minerals are actually worth, and how anyone arrives at a number.
Nobody in this business likes explaining this, because a seller who understands the math is harder to lowball. We would rather you understood it.
First, the unit everyone uses
Acres alone do not tell you much. What matters is net royalty acres, which adjusts your acreage for the royalty rate in your lease. Ten acres leased at a 25% royalty is worth twice as much as ten acres leased at 12.5%, even though both say "ten acres" on the deed.
The conversion, if you want to run it yourself:
Net royalty acres = your net mineral acres × (your royalty ÷ 12.5%)
So 40 net mineral acres leased at a 20% royalty is 64 net royalty acres. When two buyers quote you different numbers, this is usually why.
Then, the price of producing minerals
Most buyers price producing interests as a multiple of what they currently pay you, expressed in months. A common range is 36 to 60 months of your recent average monthly income. If you average $400 a month, that is roughly $14,400 to $24,000 for the producing part alone.
Three things move you inside that range, and it is worth knowing which way yours cut:
- How old the wells are. A shale well loses more than half its rate in its first year or two. If your best well came online eight months ago, your current check is not going to last, and an honest buyer will price it lower than the number on your last stub. If your wells are eight years old, your check is stable and worth more per dollar.
- Whether anything is coming. Permits filed in your unit, a rig working the section next door, or a deep formation nobody has drilled under your shallow well. This is where the real money hides in East Texas, and it is the part most sellers do not know they have.
- Who is operating. An interest under a well-capitalized operator with rigs running is worth more than the identical interest under a company that has not drilled since 2019.
What we will tell you that others might not
Sometimes the right answer is do not sell. If you own a small interest under a section that is about to be developed, holding for two more years may be worth considerably more than any check we would write today. We will say so on the phone. We would rather be the buyer you call in 2029 than the one you regret in 2026.
Questions
The things people ask us before they decide.
Does any of this cost me anything?
No. There is no fee for an offer, no commission, and no closing costs. We pay for the title work, the deed preparation, the notary and the county recording. Nothing is deducted from your proceeds. The number we quote you is the number that hits your account.
I do not know what I own. Can you still help?
Yes, and this is most of our calls. Give us your name, the county, and the name of whoever you inherited from. Mineral ownership in Texas is a matter of public record. We pull the deed records at the county clerk, the mineral roll at the appraisal district, and the production history at the Railroad Commission, and we tell you what we find whether or not you sell to us.
How do you come up with your offer?
We look at three things. What your interest currently produces, adjusted for how fast those specific wells are declining. What is permitted or already drilled nearby that has not started paying yet. And whether there are deeper formations under your tract that nobody has tested. We will walk you through all three on the phone and show you the well numbers we used.
Do I have to sell all of it?
No. Plenty of people sell half and keep half, or sell the interest in one county and keep the family tract. If you want cash now but do not want to give up the upside entirely, say so and we will price it that way.
My brother and sister own part of it. Does that complicate things?
It is very common and it is workable. Each owner signs for their own undivided share, so you do not all have to agree to sell. If one of you wants to sell and two want to hold, we can buy just the one share. If the interest is still in a deceased parent's name and was never probated, we deal with that regularly and will tell you what it takes.
How long does it take to get paid?
Typically two to four weeks from the day you accept, depending on how clean the title is and how fast the county clerk records. You continue to receive your royalty checks the entire time, right up to closing. Payment is by wire the day the deed is recorded.
What about taxes?
A sale of minerals you have held more than a year is generally treated as a long term capital gain rather than the ordinary income your royalty checks are taxed as, which is often the reason people sell in the first place. We are not accountants and every situation is different, so talk to yours before you close. We will provide whatever documentation they ask for.
Someone already sent me an offer. Should I take it?
Get a second number before you sign anything. Mailed offers are frequently well below what an interest is worth, because they are written by people who have not looked at your specific wells. Send us the letter. We will tell you honestly whether it is a good offer, even if the answer is that you should take theirs.
Are you going to show up at my house?
No. Everything is done by phone, email and mail. If you want a notary, we send one to you at our expense at a time you pick. Nobody knocks on doors.
Find out what you have.
One phone call, three business days, and a number you can do something with. No cost and no obligation, and we will tell you if you are better off keeping it.
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Where we buy
Counties We Buy Mineral Rights In
Twenty counties across East and Central Texas. We work a defined area rather than the whole country, which is why we can look up your interest and price it in three business days instead of three weeks. Pick your county below for local operators, recent permits and what drives value there.
Preview note: every county link here opens the San Augustine page, which is the worked example. On the live site each county has its own page, its own URL and its own data.
The Haynesville and Bossier fairway
The deep gas counties. Operators are extending the play east out of Louisiana and there is real drilling activity here right now. If you own minerals in this group, the value is often not in the well you are being paid on. It is in what has not been drilled yet underneath it.
The legacy East Texas gas counties
Cotton Valley, Travis Peak, Pettit and the flank of the old East Texas Field. Long-lived wells, shallow decline, and families who have been receiving the same modest check for three generations. Less drilling here, but the production is steady and predictable, which has its own kind of value.
Austin Chalk and Eagle Ford
Central Texas, and a different animal entirely. Well results here vary widely from one tract to the next, which means a careful look at your specific unit matters more than any general rule about the area.
Do not see your county?
Call anyway. The counties above are where we buy most often and know best, but we look at interests anywhere in Texas, and if yours is somewhere we do not work we will tell you who does. That costs you nothing either way.
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San Augustine County, Texas
Sell Mineral Rights in San Augustine County, Texas
San Augustine County sits in the heart of the Shelby Trough, the deep gas fairway where the Haynesville and Bossier are being extended east out of Louisiana. If you own minerals here, you own something in an area operators are actively spending money to develop.
What is happening in the county right now
San Augustine ranks around 20th in Texas for barrels of oil equivalent produced in the most recent reported month. That is a serious number for a county of fewer than 8,000 people, and it is the reason mineral interests here are worth more than most people assume.
Roughly 94 permits are currently approved and have not yet been drilled. Every one of those sits over somebody's minerals.
| Wells drilled since 1993 | 608 |
| Approved permits not yet drilled | 94 |
| Active operators producing | 7 |
| Average well depth | 12,165 ft |
| State rank, BOE produced | #20 |
Figures compiled from Texas Railroad Commission filings. We refresh this page every quarter.
Who is operating here
The operators writing the checks in San Augustine County include:
| Operator | BOE |
|---|---|
| XTO Energy | 203,100 |
| BPX Operating | 35,400 |
| Exco Operating | 13,200 |
| Silver Hill Energy Operating | 7,500 |
| Merit Energy | 7,200 |
Some of the largest units in the county by cumulative production are the Kanga Gas Unit, the Sugar Glider Gas Unit and the Black Stone A43 unit. If your division order names one of those, we already know the wells.
What drives value in San Augustine County specifically
Deep rights under shallow production. This is the single most misunderstood thing about minerals in this county. A great many tracts here have an older, tired well producing from a shallower zone, paying the owner a modest check every month. Underneath that same tract sit the Haynesville and Bossier, thousands of feet deeper, undrilled. If you price your interest off the small check you are getting, you are giving away the part that matters.
Proximity to the Gulf Coast LNG buildout. Gas produced here has a short trip to the export terminals on the coast. That is why operators backed by large international and institutional capital have been building position across San Augustine, Nacogdoches and Angelina counties rather than in more famous basins.
Fragmented family ownership. Much of the mineral ownership in this county has been divided among heirs for three or four generations. Many owners hold small undivided interests they have never valued, in tracts that are now inside active development areas.
How to look up your own interest, for free
You do not need us to do this, and we would rather you knew how:
- San Augustine County Clerk. Deed records showing what was conveyed and reserved. Many are searchable online.
- San Augustine County Appraisal District. Producing mineral interests are assessed for property tax, so the roll lists the owner, the interest and an appraised value. If you are receiving checks, you are probably on it.
- Texas Railroad Commission. Free public database of every well, permit and monthly production figure in the state. Search by operator or by lease name from your division order.
If that sounds like more of a Saturday than you want to spend, call us and we will do it and send you what we find.
San Augustine County questions
What are mineral rights worth per acre in San Augustine County?
There is no honest per-acre answer, and anyone who gives you one over the phone without looking is guessing. Value depends on your royalty rate, which wells you are in, how old those wells are, and whether the deep rights under you are still open. Two neighbors with the same acreage can be worth very different amounts. What we can tell you is that producing interests here generally price in the range of 36 to 60 months of current royalty income, with the deeper undeveloped potential valued on top of that.
I get a check from XTO. Does that mean I own Haynesville rights too?
Usually yes, but not always. Some leases and some old deeds sever ownership by depth, meaning someone else may already own the deep formations under a tract you produce from at a shallower depth. It is a specific thing to check in the deed records and it can change your value substantially. We check it on every San Augustine tract we look at and we will tell you what we find.
Do you buy small interests?
Yes. We regularly buy interests paying a few hundred dollars a month. Small interests are exactly what larger buyers ignore, which is often why they are mispriced.
My family has owned this since the 1940s and it was never probated. Is that a problem?
It is common in East Texas and it is solvable. Texas has affidavit of heirship procedures designed for exactly this. We handle the cost and the paperwork as part of closing. It may add two or three weeks.
Find out what your San Augustine County minerals are worth.
Give us your name and the county. We do the record search at our expense and call you inside three business days with a real number.
Call or text (936) 289-3438 Rather write? offers@longleafmineralco.com