A field guide to oil & gas title
Plain-English write-ups on mineral and land title, from "what even is a mineral estate?" to running a full chain of title, with diagrams that actually click.
For new landmen, junior attorneys, and anyone who owns minerals and wants to understand them.
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The reading order
Each one builds on the last, but every write-up stands on its own, so jump to whatever's tripping you up.
Fee simple, the surface/mineral split, the five sticks of the mineral estate, and what severance actually does to a tract of land.
✓ Published~12 min 02How to read what a deed really conveys: granting vs. reserving, exceptions, and the habendum clause.
✓ Published~14 min 03Lease anatomy: the grant, primary term, royalty, bonus, and the clauses that bite you later.
✓ Published~14 min 04Net mineral acres, net revenue interest, and turning ugly fractions into clean decimals.
✓ Published~16 min 05 The capstone, where it all comes togetherRun a chain of title from patent to present, build a runsheet, and write title requirements like a working examiner: the skill every other topic quietly feeds into.
✓ Published~15 minHow I explain it
"Net revenue interest" sounds like a final boss. It's one little equation, and every write-up breaks it into pieces you can actually see, with a worked example you can follow along with.
Example: 80 net mineral acres in a 640-acre unit, ⅛ royalty.
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