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Mineral title research, opinions & curative work.

From the first sovereignty grant to the last recorded instrument — we research, abstract, and cure mineral title for oil and gas operators, royalty companies, and mineral buyers across Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Arkansas.

Above · The county records, hand-indexed. Mineral title work in Texas reaches back to the original Mexican land grants of the 1820s and the Republic of Texas grants of the 1830s and 1840s. We work the full chain.
What we do

The full title stack — abstract, opine, and cure.

Title is the foundation of every land project. We deliver the full range of mineral title work: courthouse runsheets, mineral ownership reports, take-off ownership reports, drillsite and division order title opinion coordination, curative document drafting and recording, and probate / heirship research to fill the gaps.

Abstract

Sovereignty-to-current runsheets, MOR, TOR, and supplemental abstracts.

Opine

Coordinate with title attorneys on DOTOs, DSTOs, supplementals, and bring-downs.

Cure

Affidavits of heirship, stipulations, corrective deeds, releases, and probate filings.

Service catalog

Title research & curative services.

Mineral Ownership Reports (MOR)

Full mineral title from sovereignty to current.

A complete mineral ownership report identifying every owner of every mineral interest in the tract — severed minerals, royalty interests, overriding royalty interests, net profits interests, executive rights, and non-participating royalty interests — with a full recital of each conveyance, reservation, and prior lease.

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Sovereignty-to-current chain of title research · Mineral and surface estate severance analysis · Royalty, overriding royalty (ORRI), and non-participating royalty (NPRI) calculations · Executive rights and non-executive mineral interest identification · Net Mineral Acres (NMA) and Net Royalty Acres (NRA) for each owner · Decimal interest summary by tract and by depth

Take-Off Ownership Reports (TOR)

Lease take-off targets for the field landman.

A take-off ownership report is the bid sheet a field landman walks into the courthouse with. It identifies every owner the leasing campaign needs to find, with current address research, decimal interest, and the recommended order of approach.

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Current address research using LexisNexis, TLO, public-records aggregators · Skip-tracing for missing owners and unknown heirs · Family-tree work for tracts where the original owner is deceased · Decimal interest reconciled to the MOR · Field-ready packet with owner-by-owner approach notes

Runsheets & deed runs

The instrument-by-instrument working record.

A runsheet is the working record of every recorded instrument touching the tract — deeds, deeds of trust, releases, leases, mineral severances, royalty conveyances, affidavits, probates, judgments, tax records — in chronological order with grantor, grantee, instrument type, recording data, and a working remark.

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Grantor / grantee chain with cross-references · Instrument type, date executed, date recorded, volume / page or instrument number · Property description with metes-and-bounds or abstract / survey / block / section · Working remarks on each instrument’s effect on title · Supplemental runsheets and bring-downs as new instruments record

Drillsite Title Opinions (DSTO)

The opinion that authorizes the bit to turn.

We don’t issue the opinion — that’s your title attorney’s signature — but we assemble, deliver, and manage the underlying abstract, coordinate with the attorney’s office, and clear requirements before the well is spud.

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Pre-DSTO runsheet and abstract assembly to the attorney’s standard · Attorney coordination and requirement-clearing workflows · Curative document drafting to address attorney requirements · Supplemental opinion management for unit and lateral changes · Final opinion indexing and storage in iLandMan or Quorum Land

Division Order Title Opinions (DOTO)

The opinion that authorizes the first check.

The DOTO sets the decimal interest of every owner in the unit. We assemble the abstract, coordinate with the title attorney, manage requirements, and reduce the opinion to the division order itself.

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Pre-DOTO abstract assembly tied to the production unit’s actual scope · Coordination with the title attorney through requirement clearance · DOI (decimal interest) calculation reconciled against DOTO requirements · Division order preparation and distribution following final opinion · Supplemental DOTO management for new wells, lateral changes, and PSA amendments

Curative work

Closing the gaps the abstract turned up.

Title is rarely perfect on the first pass. Curative work resolves the gaps, ambiguities, and defects identified by the abstract or the title opinion — using the right instrument for the defect, drafted and recorded in the proper county.

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Affidavits of heirship under Texas Estates Code § 203.001 · Stipulations of interest and stipulations of ownership · Corrective deeds and corrective mineral deeds · Quitclaim deeds and releases · Ratifications of pooling, lease ratifications · Disclaimers and renunciations · Recording coordination with county clerks across multiple states

Heirship research & probate

Tracing the family tree through the records.

When the original owner died decades ago and the heirs never filed probate, the title doesn’t move forward without research. We trace family trees, locate descendants, and document heirship through witnesses, vital records, and recorded instruments.

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Family-tree research using Ancestry, FamilySearch, and proprietary databases · Vital records: birth, death, marriage, divorce · Probate research in the deceased’s county of residence and county of land · Witness identification and affidavit-of-heirship execution · Muniment of title and small-estate affidavit filings · Independent administrations and dependent administrations when probate is needed · Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and out-of-state probate coordination

Texas General Land Office (GLO) research

The original Texas land grants.

For tracts touching original Mexican or Republic of Texas grants, the GLO archives in Austin hold the foundational title documents. We pull, abstract, and interpret the original grants, surveys, and field notes.

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Mexican land grants (1821-1836) — Spanish-language abstracting · Republic of Texas grants (1836-1846) · State of Texas grants and patents · GLO survey field notes and abstract maps · Vacancy land and unpatented land research · Original survey plats and senior / junior survey conflict analysis

Federal & tribal title

BLM, BIA, and the patents of the public domain.

For tracts in the public-land states or under federal mineral reservation, federal title research differs from county-level chain work. We work the BLM Land Office records, the GLO patents, and the BIA allotment records.

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BLM Master Title Plats (MTP) and Historical Indexes (HI) · Federal patents from the General Land Office (federal) · BIA allotment records for Indian / tribal lands · Five Tribes allotments in Oklahoma (Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, Seminole) · Tribal mineral leases and federal Indian leases (Form 3160-3) · ONRR royalty reporting research

Supplemental title & bring-downs

Keeping the title current.

Title is a moving target. New instruments record every day. We deliver supplemental runsheets, bring-down abstracts, and updated MORs to keep the working record synchronized with the deed records through closing, spud, first production, and the life of the asset.

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Bring-down runsheets from a stated through date · Pre-spud title bring-downs at the operator’s request · Pre-closing bring-downs for A&D transactions · Annual or quarterly title maintenance on producing units · Post-execution lease loading and MOR refresh

Mineral & royalty buyer title work

Title work for the mineral acquisition desk.

Mineral and royalty buyers need title work scoped to the offer process — fast, defensible, and tied to a specific bid window. We work the courthouse on a buyer timeline.

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Quick-look title summaries for offer pricing · Full mineral ownership reports for due diligence · Decimal interest verification against operator division orders · Lease overlap, depth severance, and Pugh clause analysis · Heirship and curative recommendations with cure-cost estimates

Coverage & counties.

Deep specialization in East Texas and the Haynesville crescent, with active title research in every major U.S. producing basin.

Texas: Anderson, Cherokee, Freestone, Houston, Leon, Madison, Robertson, Trinity, Nacogdoches, Shelby, Panola, Harrison, Rusk, Gregg, Smith, Polk, Tyler, Jasper, Newton, Sabine, San Augustine, Angelina (East Texas core); Brazos, Burleson, Lee, Bastrop, Fayette (Austin Chalk / Eagle Ford); Dimmit, La Salle, McMullen, Webb, Karnes, DeWitt (Eagle Ford); Reeves, Loving, Ward, Winkler, Pecos, Reagan, Upton, Crockett, Crane, Glasscock, Howard, Martin, Midland, Andrews, Ector, Gaines (Permian Basin); Wheeler, Hemphill, Roberts, Lipscomb, Ochiltree, Hansford (Anadarko Basin).

Louisiana: Caddo, Bossier, DeSoto, Red River, Bienville, Natchitoches, Sabine, Webster, Lincoln (Haynesville / Cotton Valley); Acadia, Vermilion, Lafayette, Iberia, St. Martin (Gulf Coast).

Oklahoma: Garvin, McClain, Grady, Stephens, Carter, Love, Marshall, Pottawatomie (SCOOP / STACK); Kingfisher, Canadian, Blaine, Major, Garfield, Logan (STACK / Mississippi Lime).

New Mexico, Arkansas, North Dakota, Wyoming, and Colorado on assignment.

Scope of practice

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Mineral title research · oil and gas title abstracting · mineral ownership report MOR · take-off ownership report TOR · runsheet · deed run · drillsite title opinion DSTO · division order title opinion DOTO · supplemental title opinion · title bring-down · mineral curative · affidavit of heirship · Texas Estates Code 203.001 · stipulation of interest · corrective deed · quitclaim · ratification · mineral and royalty heirship research · probate research · muniment of title · Texas GLO research · Mexican land grant abstracting · Republic of Texas grants · BLM Master Title Plat · federal patents · BIA allotments · Oklahoma Five Tribes allotments · net mineral acres · net royalty acres · NPRI · ORRI · executive rights · non-participating royalty interest.

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