Advanced Petroleum Land Management (APLM)

This class is designed to offer specialized instruction for the landman, land technician, lease or title analyst, attorney or division order analyst. This course will cover federal and state ownership of land and minerals, state specific title issues and statutes, specific language in conveyances, and state specific legal concepts among other topics.

Major Topics Covered

1. Federal and State Ownership of Land
2. Legal Concepts
3. Types of Real Property Ownership
4. The Creation of Varying Mineral Interests
5. “Intent” based on words
6. Who Should Sign the Lease?

This practical course provides a solid understanding of the common provisions and legal significance of an oil and gas lease. It will help land management and land administration personnel manage the company’s oil and gas lease assets. Students will better understand Termination vs. Savings clauses and will be able to evaluate alternative wording and the implications of striking or modifying lease language. This class is designed to offer specialized instruction for the landman, land technician, lease or title analyst as they deal with particular leases and lease related issues.

Major Topics Covered

1. The Early Day fo the Oil and Gas Lease
2. The Granting Portion of the Oil and Gas Lease
3. The Habendum Clause of the Oil and Gas Lease
4. The Royalty Clause
5. The Termination Clause of the Lease
6. Implied Covenants
7. The Pooling Clause of the Lease
8. Miscellaneous Clauses of the Lease
9. Federal Oil and Gas Leases

Curing title defects is one of the most important functions of petroleum land management. This course will provide a solid understanding of the critical elements surrounding marketable title, the title opinion and curative, common conflicts in a chain of title, encumbrances that are superior to the oil and gas lease, and curative pertaining to surface issues. Major Topics Covered 1. Marketable Title 2. What is a Title Opinion 3. Common Curative Documents and Rules of Construction 4. Common Conflicts in the Chain of Title 5. Curative Pertaining to Surface Issues 6. Curative Pertaining to the Oil and Gas Lease 7. Encumbrances that are Superior to the Lease 8. Recording Issues 9. Date Irregularities 10. Curative Pertaining to Name Issues 11. When Someone Dies

This course offers a comparative review of energy sources in the United States and a practical guide to understanding the basics for wind, solar and geothermal energy, wind lease agreements and compensation packages for land owners. It also explores the impact of the production of these sources of energy on the land management industry and the land man profession.

Major Topics Covered:

1. Geothermal Energy
2. Solar Energy
3. Wind Energy
4. Comparing energy Sources
5. Wind Agreements and the Wind Lease

This hands-on course offers an overview of Geographic Information Systems Technology (GIS) and its uses in land management. We will be using the cloud-based platform called ArcGIS online in which students will be able to maintain their own user account, within the APLM GIS organization.

In these short 4 weeks, students will participate in a well site selection process by using play fairways layers, Colorado O&G data, leasehold and mineral acreage, State and Federal owned lands, and areas of critical environmental concern. Students will also pick up additional skills when it comes to customizing maps, symbolizing layers and managing their geospatial information.

This course will explore environmental and ethical issues related to PLM. Legislation, court decisions, and governmental agencies have all created a new level of regulation of environmental issues that land professionals and others may have to deal with on an increasing basis.

Additional issues to be covered will include matters related to the AAPL code, state codes, and corporate codes of ethics. The course will include case studies to apply ethical and/or environmental principles.