Sell Mineral Rights in Webb County, TX

Laredo and the ranch country around it sit near the deepest, richest part of the Eagle Ford Shale, and Webb County has enough drilling history now that the tract desk can price a well against its own curve instead of a basin average.

The Eagle Ford Shale was discovered in 2008 in La Salle County just north of here, and Webb County became one of the play's most active counties within a couple of years, mostly for oil and rich condensate rather than dry gas. That history matters because Webb County wells, especially the ones drilled in the initial 2010 to 2014 boom, are now well into their production life, and the tract desk has real data to underwrite against rather than a projection.

If your family held ranch land in Webb County going back generations, there is a decent chance your minerals were leased during that boom and you have been collecting royalty checks for a decade or more. The tract desk buys those interests directly, and it wants to walk you through exactly how it prices one before you decide anything.

Where your tract sits in the Eagle Ford matters more than the county line

The Eagle Ford runs in a band across South Texas that shifts from an oil window in the north to a wet gas and condensate window through the middle, into dry gas further south and east. Webb County spans a meaningful piece of that transition, so two tracts in the same county can sit in different fluid windows with very different economics. The tract desk checks where your specific unit falls before it model anything.

Laredo anchors the county, but most of the mineral-producing acreage is out in the ranch country around it, land that has often been in the same family for multiple generations, sometimes tracing back to Spanish or Mexican land grants that predate Texas statehood. That history shapes how title gets traced and confirmed, and the tract desk is used to working through it.

Underwriting a mature Eagle Ford well

Most Webb County Eagle Ford horizontals are now well past their steepest decline, which happens in the first twelve to eighteen months, and are sitting on a longer, shallower tail. The tract desk pulls the well's full monthly production history from the Railroad Commission and fit it to a decline curve, then project remaining reserves and revenue from that curve rather than from what the well made in its first year.

The tract desk also looks at whether the operator has come back for a refrac or drilled additional wells on the same unit since your interest was created, since either one changes the underlying math. Refracs in particular have become more common in the Eagle Ford as operators revisit older wells, and that can meaningfully extend a well's productive life.

Title work in Webb County ranch country

A meaningful share of Webb County mineral title traces through long ranching families, and it is common to find interests that were severed from the surface generations ago, sometimes with incomplete records from before modern courthouse indexing. The tract desk runs that chain through the county clerk's records and, where needed, coordinate with a title attorney to confirm what is actually clean to buy.

None of that should scare you off from getting a quote. The tract desk has closed on interests that took real work to trace, and it would rather tell you upfront what the title looks like than surprise you partway through a transaction.