Oil & Gas Land Services
LMJ Land Services provides comprehensive lease and ownership analysis, operating rights research, depth severance analysis, and due diligence support for operators, attorneys, investors, and land professionals.
The Standard We Work To
Clear, accurate, attorney-ready intelligence — so decisions carry less risk and greater certainty.
Title work is only useful if it holds up. Every runsheet, ownership report, and severance analysis LMJ produces is built from source documents, traced to the instrument, and documented so a title attorney, an operator, or a buyer's counsel can follow the same path to the same conclusion.
We work across federal, state, and fee mineral ownership — the three regimes that sit side by side across southeast New Mexico and West Texas, and the reason Permian title is rarely straightforward. Understanding how a BLM lease, a State Land Office tract, and a fee mineral chain interact is the difference between a report you can rely on and one you have to redo.
The result is work product that moves your project forward: defensible, complete, and delivered in a form your team can act on immediately.
Capabilities
From a single drillsite tract to multi-county due diligence, each engagement is scoped to the decision you need to make.
BLM and State Land Office lease review, title research, ownership history, and full federal lease file analysis.
State lease review, title research, and ownership verification across New Mexico, Texas, and beyond.
Fee mineral ownership, source deed review, chain of title, and curative identification.
Operating rights ownership, ORRI burden evaluation, and operating rights chain analysis.
Identify depth severances, formation-level ownership, and depth-limited rights.
Acquisition support, curative review, runsheets, title risk assessment, and divestiture support.
Detailed, defensible, court-ready reports tailored for title opinions and legal review.
Custom ownership databases, exhibits, mapping support, and data management solutions.
Engagement
You know what is being examined, what it will cost, and what you will receive before the first record is pulled.
We define the tracts, depths, and interests at issue, the decision the work supports, and the deliverable format your team needs.
County, state, and federal records are examined at the source — deeds, leases, assignments, probate, and lease files.
Chains are built, burdens calculated, severances identified, and every gap or defect flagged for curative attention.
You receive a documented report with runsheets, exhibits, and source citations ready for title opinion or closing.
Who We Serve
Different clients need different things from the same set of records. Deliverables are shaped to the work you actually have to do next.
Drillsite title, leasehold verification, depth and operating rights confirmation, and burden analysis ahead of permitting and spud.
Runsheets and source-cited abstracts formatted for title opinion work, with curative requirements identified and documented.
Acquisition and divestiture due diligence, ownership verification, and title risk assessment across the target package.
Overflow title research, curative support, ownership databases, and mapping exhibits that extend your in-house capacity.
Insights
Practical commentary on title, ownership, and due diligence in the Permian and beyond.
Formation-level conveyances rarely line up with the way modern development targets the Wolfcamp and Bone Spring. Here is where the gaps usually appear.
Read NoteAssignment history, segregations, and suspensions live in the file — not the county records. What to pull and what it tells you.
Read NoteThe defects most likely to reach closing undetected, and the diligence steps that catch them before they price the deal.
Read Note
Tell us what you are trying to decide. We will scope the work, quote it, and tell you plainly if it is not something we should take on.
