Process
How a review runs
One packet, one tract or one project, scoped in writing before work starts. These are the steps, in order.
| No. | Step | What happens |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Request | You send the county, the legal description, what you hold, the decision it supports and your deadline, by the request form, email or phone. No files yet. |
| 2 | Scope in writing | We reply with questions or a written scope: what will be checked, the record period (normally the packet's own cut-off), the deliverable, the delivery date and the fee. Work starts when you agree to it. |
| 3 | The packet | You send the packet by email or a shared folder, with any instrument copies and the title opinion if there is one. |
| 4 | Line by line | Each runsheet line is checked against its instrument: parties, dates, Vol/Pg or Inst. No., what it conveyed or reserved. |
| 5 | What the packet missed | The grantor and grantee indexes are run for every party in the chain for the same period, with probate and lease indexes, to find instruments the packet does not have. |
| 6 | Ownership and decimals | MOR fractions and decimals are worked again from the instruments; mineral rows must foot to 1/1. NPRIs, ORRIs and reservations are carried in the words of the instrument. |
| 7 | Lease and unit status | Leases, releases and unit designations of record, checked against well and production records on the state oil and gas commission. |
| 8 | Curative | The title issues list is checked against the chain: items the packet missed, and items that are already cured of record. |
| 9 | Findings list | Every finding marked right, missing or wrong, with its severity, the instrument, what it changes and the fix. Read through by the landman who signs it. |
| 10 | Delivery | The findings list as a PDF, with copies of the instruments cited, by email or shared folder. Questions go to the landman who signed it; give the finding number. |
Severity
How findings are graded
- High
- Changes who owns, a decimal, or lease status.
- Medium
- Changes the curative, or what an examiner is likely to require.
- Low
- Citation or form. No change to ownership.
The summary page leads with what the high findings change for the decision you named.
What a review does not cover
- The legal effect of an instrument. We are landmen, not attorneys; your examiner or counsel decides it.
- Unrecorded instruments, parties in possession and matters a survey would show.
- Records after the packet's cut-off, unless the scope says to bring it down.
- Fixing the packet itself. The findings say what to change; a corrected or new packet is separate work.
Fit
When a review is the right tool
You hold a runsheet, MOR or packet built by someone else and you are about to buy, lend, lease, drill or pay on it. A review shows what in it matches the record, what does not, and what to fix first.
Which counties
Send any county. We check how that county keeps its records before we answer, and the written scope says what can be checked there and for what period.
When it is not
If there is no runsheet, or the packet is too thin to check, a review costs you time. Ask for a new run of the records instead: landman.services.
If the packet is evidence in a lawsuit, counsel engages a landman expert: landman.expert.