r/landman

Anyone have any experience working for them? Have thoughts?

Anybody have any tips or suggestions on how to get a BLM lease file from the Santa Fe office that is not scanned in without taking a trip to out to New Mexico? Requested 6 files and of course all were emailed back but one.

“Government hiring freeze” is the excuse we are getting for not having access.

Is anybody out there using AI to quality check their work or in other ways as a landman? If so what product have you found to work best for what task? Example: Copilot to quality check a runsheet

Not the WA government agency — I mean LandGate Corp, the parcel/energy data platform that Wood Mackenzie just acquired in June.
I work on land acquisition tooling outside the US and I’m trying to understand what actually got used in the field vs. what was marketing:

1. Did your team pay for PowerTools / PowerParcels, or did you just use the free property reports?

2. How accurate were the ownership and parcel records in practice? What % did you have to re-verify at the county?

3. Did it replace any part of your workflow, or just sit alongside your existing county research?

4. If you dropped it, what made you drop it?
   Happy to share what I find back here.

Hi everyone!

I want to hear if anyone works or even lives around Lisbon Ohio. Getting a possible job offer around there. I just want to know if you would consider it safe, especially for a college age female. If I took the job are there plenty of hotels, bnb, restaurants, is it safe enough for me to fly there and not have to worry about bringing a pew pew for added protection or do I need to arrange a way to drive there? Give me all the details!

Thank you!

Anybody ever worked for em? Got any stories?

We’re looking for old ownership maps, either physical or digital: Tobin maps, Midland Map Company maps, or similar.

They do not need to be current. Our primary need is simply being able to locate a tract when we have an old deed with a metes-and-bounds description but little or no useful information about where the point of beginning is.

We also don’t have a particular county, basin, or state we’re targeting. This comes up with mineral owners who inherit random interests around the country and basically tell us, “I own something somewhere, but I have no idea where it is.”

So, a couple of questions for the group:

• Does anyone know of landmen, brokers, companies, etc. who have old ownership map collections sitting around that they might be willing to sell or otherwise offload?
• Any good sources for digitized historical ownership maps?
• Are there other map publishers/collections we should be looking for besides Tobin and Midland Map Company?
• Any recommendations for third-party services with good historical ownership map coverage?

We’re already looking into providers like Subsurface Library, IFS, Enverus, etc., but I’m sure there are resources out there that I don’t know about.

We’d potentially be interested in buying entire old map collections, even if they’re outdated, incomplete, or cover areas we don’t currently have a need for.

Thanks for any leads or recommendations!

I'm new to this and wanted an opinion and maybe a place to be able to search up land records.

I got a call and a letter from someone saying they are with Brown Rock Resources offering me cash for mineral and royalty interest.

The issue is, This plot of land is in Eddy County,NM and as far as I'm aware I'm on the east coast and don't have any family out that way. Is Brown Rock a legitimate company? Is this just some new form of scam? Any way I can easily look up a plot of land to see who owns it. The only exhibit they give me is state, county and the legal description which is like Sec 9 & 15 23s-29e.

I'm not really sure how to look that up and find ownership.

Any thoughts or opinions would be helpful.

Anyone here deal with these regularly?

If you have the complete lease file from the BLM how confident are you in the accuracy of the ORRI assignments contained within?

Lease is from the 1930’s.

Would it be unusual for there to be ORRI that were not in the lease file?

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