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Feelings about Landmen……
Posted by jitterboogie on January 31, 2019 at 6:08 pm……open free association…..and GO!
chuck-beresford replied 5 years, 8 months ago 9 Members · 16 Replies -
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Never heard of such a critter. Had to Google it. No oil wells in New England, so there’s no surprise. Fifth item on the Google search was a 300 page doctoral dissertation.
I can’t wait to read this.
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I have met a few (very few actually) “Landmen” that were pretty damn good, even really good.
On the other hand, I have met many who were…well…
Your mileage may vary.
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I know lots of them, a mixed bag like any profession. I wouldn’t want to do it.
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I’m asking to help convey information to a younger colleague who mentioned a ” surveyor” had asked for help researching some easement title issues, and was coming up short on any answers. I got the email chain and found out he wasn’t a surveyor, but a landman. And I agree. Most I’ve had contact with were like Herb. or Worse. A few were even attorneys. Sharp and very cagey, and knew their stuff. Was very cautious around this version.
Thanks for any feedback, its part of the collective learning experience I enjoy seeking through this place. Carry On……
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Most of them I’ve met are fairly professional. My brother Holden is an attorney and had a good gig chasing minerals with a healthy daily rate and per diem. I helped him in ’09 and ’10 when things got slow. It’s a good exercise in chasing records other than surface title.
But I have seen a few reports put together by numbskulls. And a 100 year old courthouse with thirty land men crammed in the Registrar of Deeds Office (all waiting on the same Section Book) is a sight reminiscent of hogs at a feed trough. Some of them even smell similar…
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Posted by: paden cash
Most of them I’ve met are fairly professional. My brother Holden is an attorney and had a good gig chasing minerals with a healthy daily rate and per diem. I helped him in ’09 and ’10 when things got slow. It’s a good exercise in chasing records other than surface title.
But I have seen a few reports put together by numbskulls. And a 100 year old courthouse with thirty land men crammed in the Registrar of Deeds Office (all waiting on the same Section Book) is a sight reminiscent of hogs at a feed trough. Some of them even smell similar…
I like the theme your parents seemed to take whilst naming you and your siblings…..
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Every once in a blue moon I will go to the clerk’s office and it will be full of them, shoulder to shoulder for a week to months and then poof they are all gone.
They go to where a company is trying to lease everything they can for the oil and gas rights and gaining access.
I know many of them and work for them on occasion.
I staked one of the most high pressure wells ever drilled back in the 70s and before they could bring it to production it blewout somewhere underground and they had to seal it off.
Took nearly 20yrs for them to find that pocket again. Was at the NE part of the intersection of Texas Hwy 155 and US Hwy 259 where a machine shop sits now.
They hit paydirt again west of 259 a couple of times since.
I enjoy staking wells, especially since GPS arrived.
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I don’t roll that way but if have feelings for these Landmen then what happens in your private life is your business.
We just don’t need the details if you go full Broke Back Mountain.
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Posted by: Just A. Surveyor
I don’t roll that way but if have feelings for these Landmen then what happens in your private life is your business.
We just don’t need the details if you go full Broke Back Mountain.
I don’t get it????
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Posted by: LoyalPosted by: Just A. Surveyor
I don’t roll that way but if have feelings for these Landmen then what happens in your private life is your business.
We just don’t need the details if you go full Broke Back Mountain.
I don’t get it????
I thought I was being clever responding as if the original poster was having romantic feelings for these Landmen. Apparently I was not clever at all.
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Posted by: Just A. SurveyorPosted by: LoyalPosted by: Just A. Surveyor
I don’t roll that way but if have feelings for these Landmen then what happens in your private life is your business.
We just don’t need the details if you go full Broke Back Mountain.
I don’t get it????
I thought I was being clever responding as if the original poster was having romantic feelings for these Landmen. Apparently I was not clever at all.
I guess that I am just getting “slow” in my old age…
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Posted by: LoyalPosted by: Just A. SurveyorPosted by: LoyalPosted by: Just A. Surveyor
I don’t roll that way but if have feelings for these Landmen then what happens in your private life is your business.
We just don’t need the details if you go full Broke Back Mountain.
I don’t get it????
I thought I was being clever responding as if the original poster was having romantic feelings for these Landmen. Apparently I was not clever at all.
I guess that I am just getting “slow” in my old age…
NO. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
No romance or even slight affinity towards, just wondering how other people perceive them, in general, not like in a biblical way. ????
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Their only romance is spelled “liquid gold” or “production rights“.
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Posted by: A Harris
Their only romance is spelled “liquid gold” or “production rights“.
or conveyance easement……..
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Some of the “smoothest” transmission line projects I have ever done were done while working closely with the “Landman” on the project, but take that with a grain of salt, as they were not only certified as “Landmen” but also registered Professional Land Surveyors (and the occasional one who wasn’t but should have been a registered PLS). If they know their stuff they can keep the process moving for you and the road ahead of you on a project wide open… it’s all about their level of expertise, and I guess I’m lucky as I’ve always been paired with ones who were great to work with.
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