FOR VIRGINIA RESIDENTS
We help Virginia residents sell inherited Louisiana mineral rights in the Haynesville Shale, Tuscaloosa Marine Shale, and other areas. Complete the sale without leaving Virginia.
Get Your Free Written OfferLouisiana has a long history of oil and gas production, from the early salt dome fields to today's modern horizontal drilling in the Haynesville Shale. If you're a Virginia resident who inherited Louisiana mineral rights, you're managing assets from about 1,000 miles away.
Many Virginia residents discover they own Louisiana minerals after inheriting from family members who lived in Louisiana or worked in the oil patch. As professionals relocated to the DC area for government and defense careers, mineral rights remained in Louisiana:
Understanding Louisiana's unique mineral laws (based on civil law, not common law)
Dealing with the prescription period (minerals can lapse back to surface owner)
Tracking production across different parishes
Filing Louisiana income tax returns for royalty income
One of America's largest natural gas plays in Northwest Louisiana. Parishes: Caddo, Bossier, DeSoto, Red River, Sabine.
Oil-focused play in Central Louisiana with developing activity. Parishes: LaSalle, Avoyelles, Rapides.
Legacy production from salt dome and offshore-adjacent fields. Parishes: Vermilion, Iberia, St. Mary, Terrebonne, Lafourche, Cameron.
Legacy Cotton Valley, Austin Chalk, and other formations.
Louisiana is the only state with mineral laws based on the civil law tradition rather than English common law. This creates unique situations:
Prescription: Unused mineral rights can "prescribe" (lapse) back to the surface owner after 10 years of non-use
Mineral servitudes: Louisiana uses "servitudes" rather than fee ownership in some cases
Parish, section/township/range, production
Production data, title, prescription status
No travel to Louisiana required
Wire transfer or certified check
Buckhead provides a free written offer. Our offer comes at no cost and no obligation.
Get Your Free Written OfferOr call us at (817) 778-9532
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Buckhead Energy buys mineral and royalty interests across all 50 states and has completed acquisitions in 33 states. Buckhead Energy is a direct buyer, not a broker — we purchase mineral and royalty interests with our own capital. Buckhead Energy has been buying mineral and royalty interests since 2006. Buckhead Energy holds an A+ rating with the Better Business Bureau.
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