We assist clients with protecting the interests of surface owners, mineral owners, ranchers, and farmers, while also serving operators in our energy industry community.

For landowners, mineral owners, and royalty owners, our services include:

• Drafting and negotiating oil and gas leases, surface use agreements, easements, and rights of way.

• Title curative work and resolving clouds on mineral, royalty, or surface ownership.

• Conveyances for the purchase, sale, or gifting of mineral or royalty interests.

• Providing strategy for breaking and terminating old, non-producing oil and gas leases so you can lease your land to active operators who will develop and produce your mineral interests.

• Guidance on whether you should purchase working interests in a well or in operations and whether you should elect to participate or go non-consent. 

• Counseling on all mineral and royalty interest types, which also includes working interests, overriding royalty interests (ORRI), non-participating royalty interests (NPRI), net profits interests, and other related mineral and royalty interests.

We provide ongoing mineral management services for estates and families with producing oil and gas interests, including:

• Reviewing leases and division orders to determine if you are being paid the correct royalty rate.

• Analyzing royalty revenue statements to determine whether operators are improperly deducting post-production or other prohibited costs from your checks.

• Examining deeds, leases, and title records to determine the exact mineral or royalty interest you own.

• Monitoring whether leases have terminated due to cessation of production, improper shut-in periods, or other compliance failures with lease terms or applicable law.

We also assist ranchers and farmers in addressing fire and safety risks with old or poorly maintained oil and gas wells, including:

• • Engaging directly with operators to demand compliance with leases, surface use agreements, and regulatory obligations.

  • Fighting for you and ensuring enforcement of Railroad Commission (RRC) and Public Utility Commission (PUCT) regulations, enforcement with other laws and regulations that protect your land from fire danger, and engaging with the agencies that are supposed to—and should—enforce fire-safety regulations.

  • Advocating for you and demanding proper maintenance, remediation, and mitigation efforts to reduce, and hopefully eliminate, wildfire risks.

For industry, operators, and business clients, we provide:

• • Purchase and sale agreements;

  • Service contracts, master service agreements (MSAs), joint operating agreements (JOAs), joint-interest billing (JIBs), farmouts, participation agreements, working interests (WI), overriding royalty interests (ORRI), and pooling and unitization agreements;

  • Promissory notes and other lending documentation; and

  • Assistance with agreements tailored to energy sector operations.

We specialize in and understand the technical and practical aspects of oil and gas transactions—whether for mineral owners, landowners, operators, or service companies—focusing on clear, easy-to-understand documents that protect your rights.