Sell Mineral Rights in McMullen County, TX

McMullen County has been called the epicenter of the Eagle Ford boom, and after more than fifteen years of drilling here, we have about as much offset data as any county in Texas.

McMullen County sits in the condensate and volatile-oil window of the Eagle Ford, which made it one of the most drilled counties in the play from the early days of the boom onward. The tract desk has spent enough time reading Eagle Ford type curves to know that a county this mature comes with real, deep production histories on nearly every section, which is actually good for a mineral owner: we're not guessing at a decline curve here, we're reading one that's already played out for over a decade in most places.

A lot of what we buy in McMullen County traces to old South Texas ranching families, brush country land that's been in the same name for generations, with mineral rights leased and re-leased as operators moved through. We buy those interests directly and price them off the actual well data on your tract.

A mature play means we're valuing production tails

Because so much of McMullen County was drilled in the first several years of the Eagle Ford boom, many wells here are well past their steep initial decline and are sitting on a longer, shallower production tail. That's a different valuation exercise than an early-life well, and it's one we're comfortable with given how much McMullen County history we've reviewed.

Refracs and additional infill development have extended life on some units, so we also check whether operators have gone back into your section for secondary work before finalizing a number.

Operators and where activity stands today

McMullen County has seen major operators run large, sustained Eagle Ford programs for years, alongside smaller independents managing legacy non-operated positions. Overall drilling pace across the play has slowed from boom-era levels, so we check current permit activity on your specific section rather than assuming the pace of ten years ago still applies.

Where we do see active permits or recent completions nearby, that supports a stronger forward-value component in the offer.

Working interest legacy from the early boom years

Because so many McMullen County wells were drilled with broad non-operated participation in the early boom, we regularly buy small legacy working interests, sometimes under 1 percent, from owners who've been receiving joint interest billing for over a decade on a well now well into decline. We net out projected remaining operating costs and eventual plugging exposure before pricing those interests.

If you're holding one of these older working interests and the monthly statements have become more trouble than they're worth, that's exactly the kind of position we buy regularly.

Brush country ranch land and how title tends to run

McMullen County is sparsely populated brush country, and a lot of the surface has stayed in the hands of a small number of large ranching operations for generations, even as the mineral estate underneath got severed, leased, and sold off in pieces. It's common for us to work with an heir who owns a fractional interest in a family tract that the surface owner has never met, since surface and mineral ownership parted ways decades before the Eagle Ford boom.

We're comfortable underwriting those disconnected situations and can research the McMullen County Clerk's records to confirm how your interest was created and how it's currently divided among family members, without requiring you to coordinate with anyone else on the deed.