Buckhead Energy buys Grayson County, Texas mineral rights and royalties.
Grayson County drilling right now — Buckhead Energy analysis of public oil and gas data, as of 2026-11-04:
Figures for Grayson County, Texas. Source: Buckhead Energy analysis of public oil and gas data. A figure based on fewer than 3 wells is withheld.
Oil valued at the EIA WTI Cushing monthly average price; gas at the EIA Henry Hub monthly average × 1.037 MMBtu per mcf. This is historical gross value at benchmark prices, before price differentials, deductions, and taxes — not an estimate of any owner's income or a valuation.
| Year | Oil | Gas | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $62,000,000 | $13,000,000 | $76,000,000 |
| 2024 | $83,000,000 | $8,800,000 | $92,000,000 |
| 2023 | $83,000,000 | $10,000,000 | $93,000,000 |
Median permit to spud: 28 days (6 wells)
Drilled, not yet producing: 5 wells spudded in the last three years with no first production reported; median 924 days since spud
This page covers Grayson County. For the statewide guide — every county, live drilling data, and how selling works across the state — see Texas Mineral Rights.
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Quick answer — Does Buckhead Energy buy mineral rights in Grayson County, Texas?
Grayson County lies in North Texas along the Red River and Lake Texoma, opposite Oklahoma, with Sherman as its county seat and Denison its second city. It is a mature conventional oil-and-gas county rather than a modern shale play: Buckhead Energy analysis of public oil and gas data counts more than 3,500 wells of record, roughly 590 still producing, spread across some 119 fields and worked by more than 320 mostly small operators. Production comes from shallow-to-mid-depth Pennsylvanian sands and deeper Ordovician carbonates first developed in the early 1950s. As in much of North Texas, mineral ownership is old and deeply fragmented, commonly held in small undivided fractions passed down through several generations of a family.
Grayson County's oil and gas development is largely a mid-century, conventional story. Commercial production from the Strawn and deeper Pennsylvanian and Oil Creek (Ordovician) reservoirs began in the early 1950s, building fields such as Sherman, Big Mineral Creek, and Sadler. Unlike its neighbors to the south, Grayson never saw a large horizontal shale boom; instead it settled into steady, small-scale production from hundreds of modest-rate wells operated by local independents. That long, low-intensity history is exactly what produces the fragmented, multi-heir mineral ownership common across the county today.
Cities and communities: Sherman, Denison, Van Alstyne, Whitesboro, Pottsboro, Gunter.
Grayson County, Texas
Sherman (county seat)
4 producing formations
Depth: ~4,700 ft
A principal conventional oil-and-gas interval producing since the early 1950s across the Sherman and Sadler areas.
Depth: ~8,000 ft
Deeper Pennsylvanian sands and limes, a mid-century gas and oil target across the county.
Depth: ~7,900 ft
A Simpson-group sandstone reservoir developed from the 1950s, one of the county's deeper conventional plays.
Depth: ~10,500 ft
Deep Ordovician carbonate gas, the county's deepest common target, worked from the late 1980s.
Grayson County production is dominated by small private and family-owned operators rather than public majors — more than 320 companies are on record. The most active include BKM Production, BLS Production, Felderhoff Production Company, Flintlock Exploration, Silver Creek Oil & Gas, and Grayson Petroleum Company. No large public E&P holds a dominant position; the county is instead a patchwork of modest conventional operators, which means a single family's inherited interests may pay through several different small operators.
Grayson County's decades of small, conventional production have left a mineral base that is old, low-intensity, and heavily fragmented. Individual owners frequently hold small undivided fractions — a fraction of a fraction inherited from grandparents — that generate modest monthly checks and periodic lease letters from a shifting cast of small operators. For many families the interest is meaningful but administratively tiring to hold: multiple division orders, address changes, and heirship questions across relatives who may live out of state. That profile, more than any single commodity price, is what leads Grayson County families to consolidate fragmented interests or sell them outright.
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Grayson County, Texas includes 2 named oil & gas fields we buy in — each with well counts, active operators, and how to sell an interest there.
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