Mineral questions get answered by forums, rumors, and nephews who took one geology class. Ask ours instead: a career landman answers every question personally, free, whether or not you ever do business with us.
Anything in the world of minerals, royalties, and land. What a paid-up lease means. Why your check shrank. Whether a division order is safe to sign. What "held by production" does to the lease your grandfather signed in 1962. How heirship works when nobody probated the estate. What that landman who called last week actually wants. If it touches minerals, royalties, leases, title, or the paperwork in the shoebox, it qualifies, and no question is too small or too basic. The basic ones are usually the best ones.
Stephen Clayman, Berlin's owner: Marine Corps Captain turned roughneck turned career landman. Answers are free and come back within a business day or two, by whichever channel you prefer. The only fine print is that we are landmen, not your attorneys or accountants, so what you get is experienced plain-English guidance, and we will tell you plainly when a question genuinely needs a lawyer.
Selfish honesty: the questions tell us what owners are up against, some askers become customers years later, and the best questions become articles in The Oil Scout (always anonymized, never without stripping anything identifying) so the next owner with the same problem finds the answer at 2 a.m. We have run on this give-first arithmetic since 2015 and it has never once failed to pay.
Eighty-plus plain-English articles in The Oil Scout cover leases, division orders, pooling, inherited minerals, and the rest of the mailbox. The calculators handle the arithmetic.
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