Sell Mineral Rights in Louisiana

Ask a Louisiana mineral owner what they hold and the honest answer usually depends entirely on which parish you're in. This state runs from pure Haynesville gas in the north to genuine, if complicated, oil production in the south.

The Haynesville Shale across north Louisiana parishes like Caddo, DeSoto, and Red River is one of the largest gas plays in the country, and if that is your interest, you are a gas owner watching a classic steep-then-flat shale decline curve. Moving south and east, the Tuscaloosa Marine Shale straddles the Louisiana-Mississippi line and is a genuinely oil-weighted play, though a difficult one, with high drilling costs and inconsistent activity that has kept it from developing the way Haynesville did. Further south still, Louisiana's Gulf Coast parishes hold decades of legacy conventional oil production, much of it in mature fields that have been producing since well before most current owners were born.

Haynesville: Gas, Not Oil

If your interest is in Caddo, Bossier, DeSoto, or Red River parish, you almost certainly hold a Haynesville gas interest. These horizontal wells follow the typical shale decline pattern: a fast drop in the first year or two, often losing more than half the initial rate, followed by a long tail. Haynesville drilling activity has moved in cycles tied closely to gas prices and, more recently, to LNG export demand along the Gulf Coast, so your check can move with national gas-market news more than with anything happening on your specific lease.

The Tuscaloosa Marine Shale's Oil Promise and Its Limits

The TMS, running through parishes like East Feliciana, St. Helena, and Tangipahoa before crossing into Mississippi, holds oil, and operators have periodically tried to develop it aggressively, but the play has faced real technical challenges: high drilling costs, a corrosive, high-pressure formation, and gas-oil ratios that complicate economics. Activity has stalled and restarted more than once over the past decade.

If your interest is in the TMS, honesty matters here: this is a play with real oil in the ground but an inconsistent drilling history, so an owner's check depends heavily on whether an operator is currently active on or near your acreage rather than on the play's overall promise.

Gulf Coast Legacy Fields

South Louisiana's Gulf Coast parishes, including areas around Lafayette, Houma, and the coastal wetlands, sit on some of the oldest conventional oil production in the country, dating back to the early twentieth century. Many of these fields are well past their peak and producing on long, shallow declines, sometimes from wells that have been reworked and re-completed multiple times over the decades.

Louisiana's coastal geography also brings its own complications, including access, environmental permitting, and in some cases state coastal-zone rules that affect operator activity, which is worth knowing if you are trying to gauge whether more drilling is likely near your interest.

Selling Across Louisiana's Different Plays

Because Louisiana holds such different production types under one state line, we price interests using the specifics of your own parish and well, not a statewide average. A Haynesville well two years into its decline prices very differently than a mature Gulf Coast stripper well or a TMS interest with uncertain future drilling.

We pull your recent royalty history, check current activity levels in your parish, and weigh current oil or gas pricing depending on your resource before putting together an offer, and we will tell you plainly which category your interest falls into.