Petroleum Landman School - Headquartered in Oklahoma City

Other Class Information

Seating is on a "first come – first served” basis, and seating is limited. You'll need to bring pen and paper for notes, as well as a calculator. When your tuition payment is verified, your seat will be reserved for the school you select. You may transfer to a different class with three weeks' notice and there is no charge for transferring. However, waiting beyond the three-week time frame will necessitate your waiting for the next scheduled class.
Note: The Petroleum Landman School does not offer any guarantees.

Fees

The tuition includes an instruction manual and other study and resource materials. Tuition is subject to change. Once a student has completed a class, he/she may return anytime for a refresher for that class at no additional cost. If the class is already full when you want to return, we will add your name to a waiting list.

Waiting List

If there are no classes immediately available which fit your schedule, we'll place you on a waiting list and notify you of any cancellations that might allow you to join that particular class. Your position on the waiting list will be in the same order in which you made your reservation.

Class Registration

If you are paying by check please use this form (Click here) to enroll in the class. (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)

If you are paying by credit card, please use this site (Click here) to enroll and pay the tuition.

Attention TEXAS registrants: You must certify that you have read our official Refund Policy at least 14 days prior to registration for the class. You may still enroll and pay for the class online but we MUST have this registration/certification form (Click here) turned into us before the school starts. (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)

Cancellation and Refund Policy

All students may receive a refund prior to the day before the class less $200 for class materials. There are no refunds after this period unless class has been canceled, in which a full refund will be available. Students that have paid their tuition, missed a scheduled class, and have not received a refund may enroll in a subsequent class at no additional charge. All students may attend future classes with the agenda they have previously taken, as needed for a refresher course, at no additional charge, providing that the enrollment takes place 14 days prior to the start of the class.
Note: All policies, pricing and procedures are subject to change without any prior notice.

Important Information:

Many ask what the market is like for new field landmen. As I’ve stated in my letter on the Home Page, the field landman profession is still in demand and in more than just oil and gas. You may have to knock on several doors before finding a company to work with only because they may not have a crew to immediately put you with. Keep trying if you are not immediately successful.

All students may attend future classes with the agenda they have previously taken, as needed for a refresher course, at no additional charge based upon seating availability.

With the addition of the Wind Energy Courses and several other classes’, the Petroleum Landman School has become the premier school of its kind.

Availability of these courses will be announced on this site so please, keep checking back for this updated information. If you wish to be notified of class times and places you can drop us an email and we’ll notify you.

Classes

NEW OKC Classes! - NEW Texas Classes!

For those wishing to enter the wind industry (land management) we reccomend our wind series of courses. Basic/Combine oil and gas, title and leasing, right-of-way 101, and wind energy - expanding the landman's roll...see below.

Click on the dates listed below for class information

August 2010

September 2010

When classes are scheduled they will be posted on the website. If you wish to be notified when they are scheduled please send us an email requesting this information and we'll send you a notice of the new class schedule for your area.

All classes and workshops are subject to change without prior notification. The Petroleum Landman School is not responsible for any losses due to cancellations. Please check the website for any class changes.

Oklahoma City

Combined Oil & Gas Title and Leasing
Seating is limited - Enroll Now!

September 27, 28, 29 and 30 • Click here to Enroll

Held at the OSU/OKC Campus – 900 N. Portland, Oklahoma City, OK 73107.
Classes will be held in Room #304, 3rd Floor Student Center.
Class times will be 8 am to 5 pm each day.
For Directions Call: 405-945-3373 • Click here for Campus MAP

Tuition: $795

OIL AND GAS LEGAL CONCEPTS CRITICAL FOR PETROLEUM LAND PERSONNEL

To Be Scheduled

Held at the Country Inn Suites • 3141 NW Expressway, Oklahoma City OK 73112
For Directions Call: 405-843-2002 • Click here for MAP

Tuition: $795

This course provides a tremendous amount of information in only two days. It is perfect for anyone seeking to understand how oil and gas law drives the oil and gas industry and the activities of oil and gas participants including lenders, investors, lessors, working interest owners, government regulators, attorneys, landmen, and others. The course begins with a review of the nature of the landowner's interest in oil and gas, the nature and characteristics of mineral interests, the rights and duties between surface and mineral owners, how mineral severance works, surface damages, conveyance issues, the creation and duration of mineral leases, and different kinds of royalty and mineral interests. We consider life estates and other interests and compare them to the Fee Simple Absolute. The oil and gas industry uses a number of unique contractual arrangements to explore for, develop, produce, and market oil and gas. This course includes not only a good overview of key clauses of the oil and gas lease, and the importance of implied covenants, but also examines the law governing farmout agreements, agreements for the sale and exchange of producing properties, operating agreements, drilling contracts, and pooling and unitization agreements. As part of the discussion of the rule of capture and doctrine of correlative rights and our work on pooling and unitization, we will review some of the history of the oil and gas industry that led to the powerful role of state oil and gas conservation agencies such as the Texas Railroad Commission.

BASIC OIL AND GAS CONTRACTS FOR LAND PERSONNEL

To Be Scheduled

Held at the Country Inn Suites • 3141 NW Expressway, Oklahoma City OK 73112
For Directions Call: 405-843-2002 • Click here for MAP

Tuition: $795

Audience: Landmen, attorneys, members of the land support team and exploration supervisors, contract negotiators and specialists, account billing and audit personnel, accountants, engineers, geologists, certain production personnel, division order and delay rental and lease administration personnel, and management working with oil and gas contracts. This course covers the basic concepts of some of the most important contracts used in oil and gas operations. It is a perfect course for anyone, in any area of the oil and gas industry who wants to become more familiar with key ideas having to do with the law of oil and gas and all the terms so often used by industry participants. This includes, necessarily, the oil and gas lease. We examine key clauses of the lease and the meaning industry participants and the courts give to those most important clauses including the drilling and delay rental clause, the habendum clause, the granting clause, the royalty
clause, the shut-in royalty clause, the pooling clause, the drilling-delay rental clause, and others. Also reviewed are the areas relating to ownership as it relates to oil and gas operations. We will review the idea of severance of surface and mineral rights, the role of successive ownership and co-ownership of mineral rights, and the impact on the development of land for oil and gas purposes. Important ideas concerning estates in land, transfer of title to land and minerals, land descriptions, types of property ownership, use restrictions and assignments are also covered. We discuss the use of key contracts used in the industry including Joint Operating Agreements, Seismic Options, and Farmout Agreements and relate them to various means of developing acreage.

ADVANCED OIL AND GAS CONTRACTS FOR LAND PERSONNEL

To Be Scheduled

Held at the Country Inn Suites • 3141 NW Expressway, Oklahoma City OK 73112
For Directions Call: 405-843-2002 • Click here for MAP

Tuition: $795

This class is for those with more experience and assumes some knowledge of mineral conveyancing and addresses. It is more in depth than the “Basic Oil and Gas Contracts” and the “Farmouts and Joint Operating Agreements” courses. We will look at special issues such as: “held by production,” “due diligence,” what to do about gas balancing problems, the use of area of mutual interests “AMIs,” problems such as costs of completing and reworking wells, dealing with non or underperforming operators and how to remove them. Other topics include: earning conditions, interests assigned and reserved, tax considerations, committing leases to Farmout Agreements, dealing with minimum depth in Farmout Agreements, cost overruns in jointly drilled wells, critical issues for Joint Operating Agreements including understanding the AAPL model form, interests of the various parties, proper conduct of operations, and what to do about defaulting parties.

Wind Energy Class- Expanding the Landman’s Roll

Right-of-Way 101

Texas

Combined Oil & Gas Title and Leasing !!!NEW!!!

Seating is limited - Enroll Now!

August 16 - 19 • 8:30 am to 5:00 pm

Held at the Hyatt Place • 3100 Dallas Parkway, Plano, TX
For Directions Call: 972-378-3997 • Out-of-towners may also stay at the Hyatt Place with our group rate (normally $149, PLS rate $99.00) Click here for MAP

For further information about the class call (972) 955-9255

Tuition: $795 • Click Here to Enroll

SPECIAL One-Time Offer Enroll in both the Combined Oil & Gas Title and Leasing and the Title Curative class (below)

SPECIAL: $895 • Click Here to Enroll in both courses.

Title Curative

Seating is limited - Enroll Now!

August 20 - 21 • 8:30 am to 5:00 pm

For further information about the class call (972) 955-9255

Tuition: $395 • Click Here to Enroll

SPECIAL One-Time Offer Enroll in both the Combined Oil & Gas Title and Leasing (above) and the Title Curative class

SPECIAL: $895 • Click Here to Enroll in both courses.

Wind Energy Class- Expanding the Landman’s Roll

Right of Way 101