What drives the value of your Eagle Ford Shale minerals — and how to find out your number, free.
There is no single price per acre for Eagle Ford Shale minerals. Value is specific to your tract — and the only reliable way to learn your number is a valuation built from your actual acreage. Below is exactly what determines it, so you can understand any offer you receive and recognize a fair one.
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 single biggest factor is whether there are active wells beneath your acreage. Producing Eagle Ford Shale minerals are valued on the royalty income they generate, adjusted for how quickly that income will decline. Non-producing minerals are valued on a per-net-mineral-acre basis that reflects the probability and timing of future drilling.
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.
No online calculator or per-acre rule of thumb can tell you your number. The reliable way to learn what your Eagle Ford Shale minerals are worth is a valuation built from your specific acreage — which ARB provides free, with the reasoning explained and no obligation to sell.
There is no single per-acre price for Eagle Ford Shale minerals — value depends on your net mineral acres, whether the acreage is producing, the formations beneath it, nearby operator activity, well decline, and current commodity prices. The reliable way to learn your number is a free, no-obligation valuation built from your specific acreage, which American Royalty Buyers provides with the reasoning explained.
Producing minerals are valued primarily on the royalty income they generate, adjusted for how quickly that income will decline. Newer wells facing steep decline are treated differently than wells further along their curve, and remaining undrilled locations add upside.
Non-producing minerals are valued on a per-net-mineral-acre basis that reflects the probability and timing of future drilling. In active core areas with nearby permits and rigs the value is higher; on the margins it is discounted because drilling is less certain.
Yes. American Royalty Buyers buys mineral rights, royalties, NPRI, ORRI, and non-operated working interests across the Eagle Ford Shale — producing or non-producing, including complex or inherited title.
Submit your information through our valuation form or call (817) 778-9532. ARB delivers a no-obligation offer, typically within five business days, with no fees and no pressure to sell.