I am trying to find maps using our legal interest descriptions so as to glean information on what is happening in the area. Is there a service that does this kind of work? Or a subscription recommendation that would be useful?
The answer depends upon the state where your mineral acres are. Most all of the states oil and gas websites have maps that are free.
Hi Shelly, I was hoping to find a service to visibly overlay our mineral interests on the state’s GIS oil and gas maps. MineralIQ says they will be releasing something to help shortly. Please let me know if you find something else.
Thank you. I recall reading a post you wrote about how to find your minerals on the free version of XP Shale and overlaying that with a map showing your interests so as to see the activity in the area of your minerals. Does this sound familiar to you? I am trying to remember how to do that. Can you point me in the right direction?
You could try the XPShale website and see what they offer. Subscription
Enverus has some tract info in certain states. Subscription
www.welldatabase.com. Has a free version with wells, but I haven’t looked for mineral shapefiles.
I have run into companies that create shapefiles at NARO conventions, but sure can’t remember their names now.
Do you have any feedback on LandGate? Their website makes it sound like the do mapping.
I looked them up a few years back. It has been a while so am not up to date on what they are offering or their algorithm regarding value.
My skills using the TX RRC Public GIS Viewer is very limited. But I don’t think they have a way to combine several land parcels into a single county-level highlighted map I could combine with the XPShale map. I sure tried to figure that out and failed miserably!
This is a method that I use. I buy ArcGis for personal use $100 for 1 yr. There is a similar open (free ) product for download called QGIS. We paid to have our interests mapped . I audited a course at the local Jr college to learn more, just enough so I could add / correct/ delete tracts as needed. There are free downloads available from TRRC, for counties, surveys , wells and permits. I also paid a nominal amount to our local appraisal district for the appraisal roll for the surface layer, which helped me with mapping interests. We are on the metes and bounds system so it’s not as simple as section-town-range. I check the new permits periodically. More than once I have found a tract permitted as drill site without a lease. That type of info can put you in the driver seat on lease negotiations.
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When I say mapped, I am referring to shape files.
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