Yes — you can sell your Eagle Ford Shale mineral rights, and American Royalty Buyers is a direct buyer. What they are worth depends on your net mineral acres, whether the acreage is producing, the formations beneath it, nearby operator activity, and current commodity prices — there is no single per-acre price. A free, no-obligation valuation built from your specific acreage gives you the number, with the reasoning explained.
The Eagle Ford Shale is one of the most productive oil and gas plays in the United States, arcing across South Texas from the black-oil window in Karnes and DeWitt counties through a volatile-oil and condensate belt into a deep dry-gas window near the Rio Grande. EOG Resources and ConocoPhillips run the largest programs, and drilling is still active across the core — so Eagle Ford mineral and royalty interests remain in demand.
The Eagle Ford Shale arcs roughly 400 miles across South Texas, from the Mexican border northeast toward East Texas, and is one of the most prolific unconventional plays in the country. What makes it distinctive for mineral owners is its fluid gradient: the same formation produces black oil where it is shallow in the northeast — Karnes, DeWitt, Gonzales, and Live Oak counties — grades into a volatile-oil and condensate belt through Atascosa, McMullen, La Salle, and Dimmit counties, and becomes a deep dry-gas play to the southwest around Webb County. Where your minerals sit along that arc largely determines what fluid your wells produce and how your royalty behaves.
The Eagle Ford is an Upper Cretaceous, carbonate-rich shale developed almost entirely with horizontal wells and multi-well pads. It sits in a productive stack: the Austin Chalk directly above and the Buda Limestone directly below are both independent targets many operators develop, and shallower Upper Cretaceous sands — the Olmos and San Miguel — carry legacy oil production across the region. Because the play spans an oil-to-gas fluid window, royalty income can track oil prices, natural gas and NGL prices, or a blend, depending on your specific acreage.
Based on Texas Railroad Commission filings, ConocoPhillips runs the largest Eagle Ford position at roughly 5,300 wells — a footprint that grew when it acquired Marathon Oil in 2024 — followed closely by EOG Resources, the operator that pioneered the play, at about 4,600 wells and a comparable recent drilling pace. SM Energy, Murphy Exploration, Devon Energy, Magnolia Oil & Gas, and Crescent Energy (which absorbed SilverBow Resources in 2024) also run active programs. Because of that consolidation, royalty checks in the Eagle Ford frequently still arrive under legacy payor names — Marathon Oil or SilverBow among them — even though ConocoPhillips or Crescent now operates the wells; your owner number carries across the change.
Selling your Eagle Ford Shale mineral rights to ARB is straightforward — no brokers, no surprises.
Fill out the form below with your mineral interest details — county, acreage, and whether you're currently receiving royalties. No commitment required.
ARB researches your property using public production data and current market conditions. You receive a no-obligation cash offer — typically within 5 business days.
Accept the offer and ARB handles all title work and paperwork. You receive a lump-sum wire transfer at closing — typically within 4–6 weeks of your initial inquiry.
Fill out the form below and ARB's team will research your property and provide a no-obligation offer, typically within 5 business days.
The Eagle Ford is one of the most productive oil plays in the United States, and its fluid gradient means a single formation can produce black oil, volatile oil and condensate, or dry gas depending on where your acreage sits. In the oil window — Karnes, DeWitt, Gonzales, and Live Oak counties — high-value crude and active development by large operators like EOG Resources and ConocoPhillips support strong mineral and royalty demand. The stacked Austin Chalk above and Buda below can add independent producing intervals on the same acreage.
It depends on what you value. The northeastern oil window — Karnes County above all, with DeWitt, Gonzales, and Live Oak — carries the highest-value black-oil production and the most sought-after acreage. The middle counties (Atascosa, McMullen, La Salle, Dimmit) sit in the volatile-oil and condensate belt, and Webb County to the southwest is deep dry gas. Karnes is generally regarded as the core.
The two largest operators are ConocoPhillips — which absorbed Marathon Oil's Eagle Ford position in 2024 — and EOG Resources, the operator that pioneered the play, with SM Energy, Murphy Exploration, Devon Energy, Magnolia Oil & Gas, and Crescent Energy (formerly SilverBow Resources) also active. Because of that consolidation, your royalty check may still arrive under a legacy payor name like Marathon Oil or SilverBow even though a different company now operates the wells. Your owner number and decimal carry across the name change.
On the income the interest generates and how quickly it will decline, adjusted for your specific fluid window — oil, condensate, or gas — your royalty rate and net mineral acres, remaining undrilled locations nearby, and current commodity prices. Because the Eagle Ford spans an oil-to-gas gradient, two interests the same size can be worth very different amounts depending on county and formation. There is no single per-acre number; a free valuation built from your acreage shows the figure and the reasoning.
Yes. American Royalty Buyers buys Eagle Ford mineral rights, royalties, NPRI, ORRI, and non-operated working interests across South Texas — producing or non-producing, including inherited and fractional interests. Non-producing acreage is valued on the odds and timing of future drilling nearby; a free, no-obligation valuation tells you what yours is worth today, with no fees and no obligation to sell.