Contract land services for operators and E&Ps
Title, leasing and regulatory land work, delivered complete and on schedule.
A full-service land company for operators and E&Ps across Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Louisiana and federal lands. Experienced landmen, project managers and quality control, scaled to any project size.
Services
Land work from first runsheet to drill-ready
From a single landman to a full field and office crew, staffed and managed to your schedule. We scale to meet any project size, from a single tract to multi-unit programs, and every deliverable is checked before it reaches your desk.
Title and ownership
Mineral and leasehold ownership reports, runsheets and NRI decimals, including depth-severed and HBP leasehold. Title curative and division order support.
Leasing and acquisitions
Lease and top-lease acquisition, owner negotiations and lease drafting. Mineral and leasehold acquisitions handled from offer through closing.
Oklahoma regulatory (OCC)
Pooling, spacing and increased density support: respondent research, Exhibit A notice lists, filings and permits to get wells drill-ready.
Federal and state lands
BLM case file review and lease ownership reports, plus state-owned lands, built to your reporting conventions.
Surface and right-of-way
Surface use and damage agreements, pipeline and facility ROW acquisition, and the contracts behind them, managed on budget and on time.
Due diligence and project management
Acquisition due diligence confirming represented acreage against title, operator division orders and pay status, with shortfalls flagged before closing. Crew coordination and QC, and land database cleanup in Quorum, Landdox or Excel.
Title opinion curative
Drilling and division order title opinion requirements worked to a close: affidavits, stipulations, and probate and heirship gaps.
Division orders
Decimal calculations, division order setup, suspense review and owner questions, so royalty owners get paid correctly.
Lease records and data
Lease obligation tracking, records cleanup and migration into Quorum, Landdox or your own system, plus GIS mapping of your acreage.
Experience
Operator-side experience, contract flexibility
Our leadership has run land for an operator and brought stalled projects in complete. You get a land team that knows what the drilling schedule needs from land, without carrying a full land department.
- VP of Land & Operations for a Permian Basin operator, responsible for land and field operations.
- Lead landman on a drilling program: OCC filings and permits, wells made drill-ready, logging and completion contractors scheduled.
- Pooling, spacing and increased density work for an operator in western Oklahoma.
- Depth-severed HBP leasehold ownership across 15 East Texas units to 15,000 ft, delivered with curative NRI decimals.
- Right-of-way projects managed to budget and schedule, with the agreements drafted in-house.
- 45 NRA shortfall found across a Louisiana acquisition before closing, from title defects, suspense and wrong unit acreage.
- 23 of 147 unit reports completed on that deal, about twice the per-landman average on a team of twelve-plus.
- Systems: Quorum, Landdox, Access and Excel land databases, and GIS mapping. Client names withheld; references available on request.
How we work
Clear scope, clear price, no surprises
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STEP 1
Scope call
Counties, depths, deliverables and your deadline.
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STEP 2
Written quote
Day rate or fixed fee per tract or unit, agreed before work starts.
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STEP 3
Work with weekly updates
Status every week, and every report checked before it leaves.
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STEP 4
Delivered in your format
Your templates, Excel, Quorum or Landdox, with source documents indexed.
Day rate or fixed fee
Billed by the day, or a set price per tract, unit or deliverable, quoted up front.
Expenses at cost
County, recording and copy fees passed through with receipts and no markup.
Net 30
Semi-monthly invoices, itemized by day and deliverable.
Your data stays yours
Prospects, ownership and pricing are confidential and used only for your project.
Leadership
Ryan E. Hess
OWNER, FLINT CREEK LAND MANAGEMENT
Ryan is a Registered Landman (AAPL) who has worked oil and gas land since 2010, from lead landman on an operator's drilling program to VP of Land & Operations. His work spans title, leasing, OCC regulatory, federal lands and surface negotiations.
Under his leadership, Flint Creek Land Management staffs each project with the landmen and project managers it needs, in the field and in the office, and holds every deliverable to the same standard of review.
Contact
Tell us about your project
Send the counties, scope and timing, and you'll have a written quote back within one business day.