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Land Workshops
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One of the goals of every drilling project is to successfully proceed without any major title surprises. Understanding the critical impact of curing title is priceless in achieving that goal and knowing how to cure these issues is vital for every land professional. This detailed packed workshop offers the tools necessary to do just that!
| This class focuses on what may be the most common upstream contract for oil and gas operations. Discussions will deal with the operator, what happens when interests are lost, drilling and development, how interests are calculated, liabilities of parties, non-consent and other risk management issues.
| | This interactive course provides a detailed look at creating and negotiating farmout agreements and the vital components and provisions that set the farmout apart from every other oil and gas contract. Specific topics include what the farmor is giving up, what the farmee must do to earn a farmout and what the farmor is keeping. | This one-day class covers crucial information for the land professional dealing with several critical title issues and conveyances that impact how oil and gas interests are calculated and maintained. The class will focus on non-participating royalty and its peculiarities; Joint Tenants, Tenants in Common and Tenants by the Entirety; Life Estates and Usufructs, Strangers in Title; after acquired title; the Duhig Rule and the rule related to interest conveyed vs, land described; descent & distribution; and term mineral conveyances. | Contracts are the heart and soul of the oil and gas industry and this 1-day interactive course focuses on several of the most important that impact the jobs of land and land administration professionals. Group exercises help demonstrate why and when contracts are used and the challenges they may pose. This workshop highlights specific features and characteristics of AMI’s, Joint Venture Agreements, Surface Agreements, Seismic Agreements, Confidentiality Agreements, Participation Agreements and financial agreements that create a Production Payment.
|  By its very definition a negotiation is a dialogue between two people intended to resolve disputes or produce an agreed consensus. We negotiate for many reasons. However, we are not born a great negotiator. Great negotiators learn their craft! The purpose of this course is to reveal practical negotiating tools that, if mastered, can help anybody negotiate through business and the issues of life. Topics include: Defining a Great Negotiator, Seven Skills Mastered by Great Negotiators, Three Strengths used by Great Negotiators, Fives rules of a Great Listener, Eleven Negotiating Tactics and Four Concessions Tactics and much more.
| | Attendees to this class will chain a 160 ace tract of land in North Dakota coming face-to-face with several critical title issues through various instruments. The chain will include conveyances with different types of wording, reservation language with different types of outcome, intestate succession with several possible results, eminent domain, homestead rights, deeds of trust, Patents, Indentures, Warranty and Quit Claim Deeds, Judgments of the Court, Power of Attorney, mineral reservations, royalty conveyances, term mineral deeds, lis pendens, and unreleased oil and gas leases. Each of these issues is a "must know" for the Land Professional who is given the responsibility of chaining title. | This class focuses on critical title issues the land professional would run into in the State of Texas and deals specifically with its laws and interpretations. Issues covered include: Mineral Classified Lands, Texas Rule of Evidence 901, Marketable & Un-marketable title, recording statutes, unreleased oil & Gas leases, mineral vs. royalty language, name and entity issues, who should lease, purchaser is on record notice of any unrecorded instrument referred to in the chain of title, probate admission, community property, homestead rights, Grants (Spanish, Mexican, Republic, & State Governements, Scripts (Confederate, Loan, Sam Houston, etc. ) Railroad and School Lands, HBP issues and obtaining production data issues, conveyance language and Duhig. | This class focuses on critical title issues the land professional would run into in the states of North Dakota and Montana and their interpretations specifically. Issues covered include: Marketable & Un-marketable title, recording statutes, unreleased oil & gas leases & HBP issues, obtaining production data and the use of all appropriate county & state records, mineral vs. royalty language, name and entity issues, severance of title, dormant minerals statutes, title standards, who can lease, marital vs. separate property, probate admission, taxation and severed minerals, forced pooling, unleased mineral owners, recording statutes, statutory pugh, homestead rights, defining a mineral interest, conveyance language and Duhig.
| This one-day class covers crucial information for the land professional dealing with several critical title issues and conveyances that impact how oil and gas interests are calculated and maintained. The class will focus on non-participating royalty and its peculiarities; Joint Tenants, Tenants in Common and Tenants by the Entirety; Life Estates and Usufructs, Strangers in Title; after acquired title; the Duhig Rule and the rule related to interest conveyed vs, land described; descent & distribution; and term mineral conveyances. |
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