Experienced landmen, project managers, and full land-function BPO — sized to your project, your forms, and your systems. From a single field landman to a fully outsourced land department, we staff and run the work.
NechesLand staffs land projects for oil and gas operators, mineral and royalty companies, midstream pipelines, private equity sponsors, renewable energy developers, and carbon-capture project owners. We provide individual landmen, complete project teams, or run your entire land department as an outsourced service.
Engagements range from a single right-of-way landman on a 90-day permit job to multi-year business process outsourcing covering lease administration, calendaring, and obligation tracking across a multi-state asset base. Every engagement runs under your standards, your forms, and either your systems or ours.
AAPL-aligned Certified Professional Landmen (CPL), Registered Professional Landmen (RPL), and Registered Landmen (RL) plus title attorneys and analysts.
Project managers who own scope, schedule, budget, and weekly cadence. One hand to high-five! One number to call.
Every project we run produces a defensible paper trail: status reports, time records, deliverable indexes, and recordable instruments.
Field landmen for lease acquisition, right-of-way, surface use, damages negotiation, courthouse research, and signing runs. Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arkansas, North Dakota, Wyoming, and Colorado coverage with deep specialization in the Haynesville, Deep Bossier, SCOOP, STACK, Permian Basin, and East Texas Cotton Valley plays.
Lease acquisition landmen (contract or W-2) · Right-of-way (ROW) landmen for pipeline, transmission, and gathering projects · Surface use, damages, and seismic permit field representatives · Courthouse abstractors and runsheet field staff · Signing landmen for kitchen-table lease execution and notarization coordination · Bilingual (English / Spanish) field landmen available for South Texas projects
Direct placement and contract-to-hire of in-house landmen who sit in your office, badge into your building, and work under your direct supervision. Useful when the client’s project is too sensitive to outsource or when the work benefits from face-time with the rest of the land, legal, and operations teams.
Acquisition landmen for in-house lease and acreage acquisition desks · Division order analysts and senior division order coordinators · Lease records analysts (LRA) and senior lease records analysts (SLRA) · Contract landmen for JOA, AMI, and farmout administration · Land managers and assistant land managers for vacancy coverage · Director and VP-level landmen for special projects and acquisitions
Senior project managers who run multi-landman, multi-county land projects from kickoff to closeout. They build the workplan, set the cadence, manage the field staff, and produce the executive-level status reporting your sponsors and partners expect.
Workplan design with phases, milestones, and dependencies · Resource leveling across multiple landmen and counties · Weekly status reports with KPIs (leases taken, acres acquired, defects resolved) · Cost reporting against budget with variance analysis · Vendor management: abstractors, title attorneys, surveyors, notaries · Risk register and escalation protocol
For operators who don’t want to build or rebuild an in-house land department, we run it. Fully outsourced land-function operations covering lease records, document management, obligation calendaring, JIB, division orders, owner relations, and regulatory filings — under a monthly retainer with a defined service catalog and SLAs.
Lease records administration: lease loading, indexing, document linkage · Obligation and rental calendaring with three-tier alerting · Shut-in royalty payments and continuous-operations documentation · JOA and AMI administration: election tracking, AFE workflows, billing audits · Division order preparation, distribution, and owner-relations call handling · Regulatory filings: RRC, LDNR, OCC, GLO, BLM · 1099 reporting and unclaimed property / escheatment workflows · Monthly executive reporting and KPI dashboards
Acreage races, drilling deadlines, end-of-primary-term extension campaigns, expiration-driven leasehold cleanup, and acquisitions due diligence all have one thing in common: a fixed date that can’t move. We staff to the deadline.
Acreage races with 20-40 field landmen deployable in 5-10 days · Drilling-deadline lease cleanups (continuous operations, retained acreage) · End-of-primary-term top leasing and extension campaigns · Due-diligence surge teams for A&D transactions (2-8 week sprints) · Force-majeure documentation and emergency curative work
When the acquisition or divestiture has 30, 60, or 90 days to close, we staff the land due-diligence team. Lease and contract review, title quality scoring, defect schedules, and bid-support deliverables — produced under NDA inside the seller’s virtual data room.
Lease summaries with key terms, dates, royalty, and obligations · JOA, AMI, farmout, and operating agreement reviews · Well-status review tied to lease retention · Defect schedules with cure cost and risk-rated value impact · Title quality scoring against industry-standard rubrics · Post-close integration support and transition staffing
For high-volume, repeatable work — runsheet assembly, lease abstracting, document indexing, data entry, OCR cleanup — we provide remote analyst teams that operate under U.S. project management and U.S. quality control. Lower hourly rates, audit-ready deliverables.
Lease abstracting at scale (1,000+ leases per project) · Document indexing and metadata capture · OCR cleanup and document classification · Runsheet data entry and quality control · Division order data loads and reconciliation · 24-hour turnaround on standard deliverables
When the goal is to staff up rather than outsource long term, we train the team you hire. iLandMan training, AAPL-form contract training, Texas land law primers, and custom curriculum tailored to your asset base and systems.
iLandMan and Quorum Land user training (administrator, power user, end user) · AAPL Model Form JOA, AMI, and farmout contract training · Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and New Mexico land law primers · Title research and curative document training · Division order & revenue accounting basics · Onboarding curriculum for new in-house landmen
Three engagement structures, picked to match the shape of the work.
Fixed-scope deliverables (a runsheet, a campaign, an implementation) quoted as a not-to-exceed.
Time-and-materials with weekly time records and full transparency. Standard for surge work.
Monthly retainer covering an ongoing service catalog with SLAs. Standard for BPO.
Oil and gas landman staffing · oilfield landman jobs · field landman placement · contract landman · lease records analyst · division order analyst · land department BPO · land function outsourcing · oil and gas BPO · lease administration services · obligation calendaring · oil and gas project management · AAPL CPL RPL RL landmen · right-of-way landmen · surface use landmen · acreage acquisition team · drilling-deadline staffing · A&D due diligence support · lease abstracting services · East Texas landman · Haynesville landman · Permian Basin landman · SCOOP STACK landman · Louisiana landman · Oklahoma landman.
Tell us about the project. We’ll come back with a team, a price, and a start date.