Assembled small group of private investors for mineral and royalty acquisitions. Lease cursory and due diligence to identify new prospects for potential acquisitions. Works with legal counsel to cure title defects for closings. Acquired right of way/easements for utility lines, pipelines, etc. Negotiated contracts for surface use agreements

Review and interpret existing leases, operating agreements, etc., including but not limited to Federal, State, and fee leases. Familiarity with all current regulations. Involved with negotiations with working interest owners and landowners. Negotiate and prepare agreements, assignments, right-of-way, damage settlements, and other land-related contracts. Perform or coordinate performance of due diligence for property acquisitions. Responsible for locating, hiring and supervising competent contract landmen as appropriate and verifies all associated expenses. Responsible for review of title reports on lands acquired, ordering abstracts and/or title opinions as necessary, and for clearing all titles and drilling. Determines which title problems are significant to prevent drilling and recommends best course for resolution of problem. Supervises all curative required in title opinions and approves titles for division order purposes.Coordinate day to day operations to comply with contract terms, establish cost centers for all new properties, report land and contract activity monthly to operations, headquarters land, accounting and tax personnel, and provide billing and revenue information to accounting staff. Negotiate and confer with outside operators, owners and legal, audit and tax personnel for day to day administration matters involving divestitures, acquisitions, and billing, revenue, tax and audit matters. Coordinates distribution, review, execution and return of all AFE’s and associated contracts. Assist on reserve report preparation with research or verification of working and revenue interest information, payout and conversion information, etc.Works with management team, operations personnel and technical staff in prospect and property evaluations; provides working and revenue interest, payout and conversion information as well as research for other contract or lease-related information for economic evaluations.

Procured long term professional relationships with NGO, engineering, and field production/operations pertaining but not limited to various gathering systems in Eastern Arkoma and Buckeye/Vacuum in Lea County, New Mexico. Compiled list of right of ways and surface use agreements associated with each gathering system to assist in the generation of the assignment of interest from XOM/XTO to Cross Timbers Energy LLC. Critical role in the generation of GIS maps depicting the geographical location of the pertinent ROWs/surface use agreements.Preliminary analysis of all Agreements that are to be involved in a divestiture that XTO Energy may be disposing of to identify any negative impacting issues to the transfer.Extensive experience working on divestiture team, including but not limited to determining which wells, contracts, etc. have a preferential right to purchase between operators and non-operators within a contract area. Successfully identified within each oil and gas lease, farmout/farmin, and other applicable contract/s the consent and/or notice to assign.Generation of various reports and preliminary Exhibit “A”s to an assignment to show an initial assessment of properties that are a part of the divestiture that have not been thoroughly reviewed for accurateness.Coordination and communication with the Land Department and other Land Administration Departments to simplify and alleviate the process for all pre-closing and closing divestiture procedures.Construct detailed reports for Land to ensure that any and all obligations and requirements are identified and satisfied.Review and maintain contracts in a database (Quorum Land Management) to ensure that our interest in any depth, formation, surface, etc. is accounted for accurately.In depth analysis of leases throughout heavily active areas of New Mexico and Colorado that ExxonMobil and their predecessors own interest in to accurately determine what interest we actually own.

Closely monitored Arkansas Oil and Gas Commission Integration Proceedings/Orders to acquire uncommitted leasehold and working interest in a contract area that is bound by the integration laws of the Arkansas Oil and Gas Commission.Cured title defects presented in Title Opinions on a unit by unit basis throughout an identified area of a progressive drilling program.Leader for “Due Diligence Team” that identified sellers’ current leasehold and all pertinent provisions within their oil and gas leases that may hinder the divestiture.Works with legal counsel to clear title for drilling and division order purposes.Acquiring leaseholds to consolidate holdings in areas of interest for future commercial development by Client.Extensive knowledge pertaining to field level land broker process which includes but not limited to mineral/surface ownership discovery and transfer, oil and gas lease negotiations, ROW negotiations, surface use agreement negotiations.Outstanding history of nurturing professional relationships.Proficient with Microsoft Office, Quorum Land Management, DrillingInfo, HIS.Ability to express sound solutions and ideas to management with minimal preparation and readily anticipates problems and questions.