Sell Mineral Rights in Louisiana

Louisiana is where LNG demand meets some of the oldest oil production in the country, and our underwriting has to account for both a genuinely active gas play and a civil law property system that works differently than anywhere else we buy.

The Haynesville shale across north Louisiana parishes like Caddo, DeSoto, and Bossier has seen a real second wind of drilling activity in recent years, driven largely by Gulf Coast LNG export demand pulling gas prices and completion activity higher than the play saw in its first boom a decade and a half ago. That makes Haynesville one of the more actively competed states on our list.

South Louisiana tells a different story: legacy Gulf Coast oil and gas production, much of it decades old, layered with the Tuscaloosa Marine Shale trend along the Louisiana-Mississippi border that's seen intermittent, not sustained, drilling interest. We underwrite each of these three situations, north Louisiana shale gas, TMS, and legacy Gulf Coast, on their own terms.

Louisiana's civil law title system

Louisiana is the one state in this country that runs on a civil law property system rather than English common law, which changes some of the mechanics around servitudes, prescription, and how mineral rights can lapse from non-use in ways that don't apply anywhere else we buy. A mineral servitude in Louisiana can prescribe, meaning it can revert to the surface owner, if there's no production or drilling activity for ten years, which is not a concept that exists in Texas or Oklahoma title law.

That means part of our diligence on a Louisiana interest is specifically confirming the servitude hasn't prescribed, checking for interruption events like drilling or a unitization order that would have reset the clock. This is a real risk we check for, not a formality, and it's a big part of why Louisiana title work takes a specific kind of expertise.

Haynesville: why we compete harder here

Because LNG demand along the Gulf Coast has pulled real drilling capital back into Haynesville, we're seeing more current production data, more active permitting, and more competing buyers than in a lot of legacy states. That combination lets us underwrite with more confidence and, frankly, price more aggressively than we would on a mature play with no drilling catalyst.

We ask for a current division order and check the unit's spacing and any recent permits nearby, since infill activity in an active Haynesville unit is a real, current signal, not a historical footnote.

Tuscaloosa Marine Shale and legacy Gulf Coast

TMS acreage has seen drilling interest come and go more than once, and we're candid that a lease in the trend without recent operator activity carries more uncertainty than an active Haynesville unit. Legacy Gulf Coast production, meanwhile, is often extremely long-lived, with some fields dating to the early twentieth century, and those interests underwrite more like the Illinois basin or Kentucky, small, steady, well-documented history rather than a growth story.

We price each of these on its own facts rather than folding everything south of Haynesville into one Louisiana number.

What we ask for before quoting

A current division order or check stub, plus, where possible, documentation of the original servitude and any recorded interruption events like a drilling permit history or unitization order in your parish. Parish clerk of court records are where this all lives, and we pull them ourselves rather than asking you to.

Bossier bench activity adding depth to some north Louisiana tracts

In parts of the Haynesville core, operators have layered Bossier Shale development underneath the primary Haynesville target, which can mean a tract carries more remaining inventory than a division order reflecting only the shallower well would suggest. We check permit and completion records for Bossier activity specifically before assuming a north Louisiana tract's upside is limited to whatever Haynesville well is currently paying royalty.