Pheasant Energy Land Administrator Fort Worth, TX · Full time Company website

Excellent opportunity for the right candidate with a pleasant atmosphere, outstanding benefits, and job security in the beautiful museum district of Fort Worth! The family-owned, petroleum investment company is seeking a new Land Administrator. This role will be a member of the Land Team, contributing to the company’s success by ensuring proper management and administration of the company’s land files and division orders. The Land Administrator will support all administrative aspects of the Land Department while maintaining high-quality documentation and performing tasks in line with the company’s internal controls.

Description

Responsibilities:


  • Researches, analyzes, and interprets various legal documents, including but not limited to oil and gas leases, assignments, title opinions, and curative documents, including ownership verification.
  • Processes for new ownership in wells, determining working interest and net revenue interest in new wells or royalty interest decimals, acreage figures, payment amounts, and due dates.
  • Develops and maintains a positive working relationship with internal and external partners.
  • Creates various reports pertaining to company assets and obligations.
  • Oversees the input and management of the company’s assets in multiple internal environments.
  • Monitors and ensures compliance with critical dates and contract obligations.
  • Interact with Land counterparts to ensure timely receipt of necessary information and documentation.
  • Ability to resolve complex ownership issues.
  • Supporting acquisition records assimilation.
  • Determine working interests and burdens based on title analysis of title opinions, deeds, assignments, purchase and sale agreements, trade agreements, probate documents, and oil and gas leases.
  • Work alongside finance and resolve revenue and JIB issues and discrepancies.
  • Work directly with operators to resolve ownership issues, transfers, and inquiries.
  • Analyzes and interprets deeds, leases, assignments, probate documents, legal decrees, division orders, title opinions, joint operating agreements, contracts, and other similar and related legal documents.
  • Assists in coordinating the curing of title requirements with in-house and field Landmen and obtains curative documents.
  • Processes ownership changes upon receipt of probates, deeds, leases, assignments, etc.
  • Ensures that internal control procedures are maintained.
  • Completes work timely to comply with contractual and statutory requirements.
  • Reviews and calculates division orders, amended division orders, and transfer orders.
  • Update and maintain weekly and monthly workflow reports and progress reports.
  • ESRI ArcGIS Pro experience to build out maps of acreage positions.

 

Education and Experience:


  • Bachelor’s Degree in a business-related field or equivalent combination of education and experience.
  • Advanced knowledge of surface, mineral, royalty, and leasehold title.
  • Understanding of relevant federal and state statutes and regulations.
  • Advanced proficiency in Excel, Outlook, Word, and Adobe Acrobat.
  • ESRI ArcGIS Pro experience preferred, not required.
  • Industry certification as one or more of the following preferred: CPLTA, CDOA, RL, RPL, CPL
  • 3+ years of in-house land administration experience.


Must have:


  • Ability to work well with others.
  • Strong work ethic and desire to learn.
  • Ability to follow oral and written directions.
  • Willingness to embrace accountability.
  • Professional demeanor and personal presentation.
  • High ethical standards.
  • High level of data quality and attention to detail across all areas of responsibilities.
  • Ability to read, understand, and interpret complex legal documents.
  • Good verbal and written skills - communicates information, asks questions, and checks for understanding.
  • Must be a self-starter, motivated, with good organizational and reasoning skills and the ability to prioritize workload.
  • Flexible, can-do, and team-oriented to handle added or changed duties and responsibilities to meet the needs of a growing, dynamic company.


Benefits:


  • Health Insurance.
  • Dental insurance.
  • Vision insurance.
  • Retirement plan.
  • Paid time off.


Salary

$60,000 - $80,000 per year