1. "From Prospect to Pipeline"
2. Role of Land Department
3. Interaction with Other Departments
4. Interaction with Outside Companies
5. Interaction with Land Owners

1. Land Department: Land Manager, Landman, Land Secretary, Land Assistant or Land Tech, and File Clerk.
2. Land Administration Department
3. Lease Record Supervisor (Lease Analyst and Secretary).
4. Division Order Supervisor (Division Order Analyst and Secretary)

A.    Types of Contracts

                  1.     Leases

                  2.     Operating Agreements: Exhibit "C" COPAS

3.     Farmout Agreements

4.     Dry Hole, Bottom Hole and Acreage Contribution Agreements

5.     Gas Contracts

6.     Purchase and Sale Agreements

7.     Division Orders and Transfer Orders

8.     Rights of Way and other Surface Use Agreements

9.     Pooling Agreements

10.     Assignments

11.     Other Agreements

B.    Document Preparation 

1.     Document Drafting and Letter Writing

2.     Executing Instruments

3.     Who Can Sign an Oil and Gas Lease

C.  Recording Documents

1.     Recordation

2.     Land Records

1. Definition, Gross and Net Acres, and Calculations

1. History of  Mineral Ownership
2. Contracts

1. Private and Public Lands in Texas
2. State Statutes (Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and New Mexico)
3. Community and Separate Property
4. Homestead
5. Payment of Proceeds from Production
6. Surface Damages