Senior Landman

Job Description

Job Description

SENIOR LANDMAN - ONSHORE

The Senior Landman position requires a strong proactive approach and high degree of independence, professionalism and dependability with good negotiating, communication, organizational and attention to detail skills and a comprehensive understanding of land, legal and oil & gas industry principles, processes and procedures.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Determine title to prospective lands, availability for leasing and applicable regulatory guidelines.  
• Conduct title review, Title Curative, and identify curative actions required to remedy contract and mineral lease deficiencies.
• Acquire interests in prospective lands by leasing directly from landowners or via negotiating agreements with industry competitors. 
• Review mineral lease files to determine royalty assets
• Advise lease records department of acquisitions and ensure the particulars of the acquired interests are accurately set up in the system for maintenance and accounting. Run JIB and DOI Decks and entitlement Deck updates. 
• Understands Deck interest memo’s and supplemental desks for computation for GWI, WI, ORRI, NPRI, RI. Advise and continually update Accounting and Division Order Departments of information necessary to ensure that all billable expenditures are properly billed out and collected.
• Either directly or through use and supervision of outside attorneys, perform whatever actions are reasonably necessary to confirm title and otherwise protect the Company's interest prior to commencement of drilling operations, including where necessary, obtaining title opinions for lands where wells are to be drilled and ensure that all necessary title curative is performed.
• Negotiate, draft and consummate all necessary agreements with third party participants to ensure payment of costs and proper operation of wells. 
• Provide the Division Order Department information necessary to ensure proper distribution and collection of revenue attributable to initial production from wells, such as post-completion title confirmation and information, including division order title opinions where applicable and providing particulars of all pertinent contracts and agreements.

Required Qualifications:

• 12-15+ years of relevant experience with an active oil and gas exploration company.
• Extensive experience in East and West Texas required.

Benefits : Medical/Dental/Vision/401K.