Mineral title for oil and gas
Who owns the minerals, how that ownership changes hands, how leases work, and how owners get paid, explained with diagrams, worked examples, and interactive practice.
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Fee simple, the surface and mineral estates, the rights that make up a mineral estate, and what severance does to a tract.
~12 min 02How to read what a deed conveys: grants, reservations, exceptions, and recording.
~14 min 03The parts of a lease: the grant, the primary and secondary term, bonus, royalty, and the clauses that decide when a lease ends.
~14 min 04Net mineral acres, net revenue interest, and how fractions become the decimal on a division order.
~16 min 05 CapstoneTracing a chain of title from patent to present, building a runsheet, and writing title requirements.
~15 minPractice
Click through the concept, then practice with instant feedback.
Township, range, section, and aliquot parts, from the whole grid down to a 40-acre tract.
Start → Interactive · ~10 minSurveys, railroad blocks, and abstract numbers, practiced on the real Midland County survey map.
Start → Interactive · ~10 minNet mineral acres, the royalty decimal, the burden stack, and checking a division order.
Start → Interactive · ~15 minPut deeds in order, watch ownership split among owners, and find where a chain breaks.
Start → Interactive · ~10 minFractions of the minerals, of an interest, of production, and of the royalty, and why "1/2 of 1/8" is tricky.
Start → Interactive · ~10 minChange the unit size, see each tract's share, and work out an owner's decimal.
Start →Explore
The bigger picture: how a well comes together, where wells have been drilled, and how drilling has changed.
DJ Basin horizontal wells have more than doubled in length since 2012. Most now cross three or more sections.
About 6.2 million acres of Colorado have non-federal surface over federal minerals.
Leasing, title opinions, permitting, drilling, and payment, drawn as a well log.
Every well in the state, animated by the year it was drilled.
From the first Katalla wells to the North Slope.
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