On-Demand Webinars

Decisions pivot on cash flow analysis, and cash flow builds on all of the major drivers in the business.  Reliable cash flow analysis requires a broad understandig of the issues and methods for inputs ranging from geology to gas differentials, from decline curves to discount rates.  Mr. Purvis will survey methods, notable issues and misunderstood assumptions for creating and interpreting cash flows.

Learning objectives:

Be able to ask meaningful questions about the underlying work process that created the assumptions.

With a bit of creative thought, nearly every title dispute can be characterized as a battle for the ownership of WI & NRI. In this webinar, Douglas M. Potter, CPL, provides his commentary as to the contested WI & NRI for selected Lawsuits within AAPL's Landman Magazine's [March/April, 2020 Vol 65 No. 2] artileThe Top 10 Texas Oil and Gas Cases of 2019. The commentary is not to be considered to be a legal opinion, but rather general guidance for Landmen in their daily work.

To prepare you for this webinar, the commentator suggests that the webinar registrant should familiarize himself/herself with the above AAPL article. The March/April Landman Magazine can be located here: https://www.landman.org/resources/member-resources/landman-magazine. 
(you must be logged in to view)  The article can also be found further down this page, under "Additional Information".

After the webinar, AAPL’s Landnews Digest will serve as a “blog” to provide feedback and peer review of Mr. Potter’s comments.  AAPL’s Landnews Digest will also serve as a forum to exchange perspectives for similar circumstances in other oil producing states.  If you are not currently receiving AAPL’s Landnews Digest, you may visit www.landman.org to subscribe.

This webinar will focus on several of the types of disputes and potential litigation that may arise under a JOA given the current market conditions of low oil prices and COVID-19.  

Among the issues to be discussed includes an analysis of the circumstances governing removal of the operator, including concerns of whether the operator is solvent and strategies for working with an operator that has filed for bankruptcy. The webinar will address steps an operator may take to protect its interest and perfect any potential liens.  Additionally, the webinar will address potential issues involving non-operators under a JOA, including the rights of a non-operator and potential liability.  In asserting a claim under a JOA, the webinar will address the types of relief available, including injunctive relief. Finally, the webinar will address the issues and potential liability relating to assignments of interests in a JOA.

Independent Contractor Workshop

The AAPL Independent Contractor Workshop presents landmen with a comprehensive source of important tax, legislative and regulatory information for brokers and independent landmen. The Workshop offers guidance on how to model your business to comply with tax regulations, how to prepare if you’re facing an audit, and serves as a guide on tax and independent contractor laws throughout the U.S. that may affect your business practices. The Workshop also provides vital information on how to avoid pitfalls, offers case studies, and best practices in operating as, and working with, independent landmen.

TOPICS & SPEAKERS:

AAPL Update

Mike Curry

Offshore Drilling

Keith Couvillion

Independent Contractor

Alan Morgan

Upcoming Supreme Court Decisions

Stephen K. Newton

Panel Discussion: Mergers & Acquisitions

Speakers:  Bradford B. Kuhn, Esq. and Willis Hon |  

This presentation will examine potential liability exposure for utilities and other energy providers, as well as recent updates on inverse condemnation law.  The presentation will also address best practices for right-of-way management and minimization of exposure to large damages claims.

Speakers: Nash Bell, CPL & Jeffrey Klam, CPL | 

Our presentation will cover how we moved from field landmen into in-house landmen, what we learned along the way and the differences in the roles.  We will also cover how someone making that transition either on a full time or contract basis should prepare and execute.

Speaker: Marita Morris, CPL |

A large percentage of NDA's are harmless and despite all the legal language, it doesn't usually include anything that will harm you.  The objective is to have a document in place to protect both parties and a business' confidential information.  Most of us sign them on a regular basis.  It's how we keep deal flow going.  That doesn't mean you shouldn't read them carefully and watch for 'sneaky' non-compete language.  This is a discussion on Confidentiality, the NDA, Non-Compete and Non-Circumvent language and things to watch for.  

RPL / CPL Certification Exam Review Day 1

Covers Chapters 1 - 7 in the Oil & Gas Land Reference Volume

| Chapter 1 - AAPL & the Landman 
| Chapter 2 - Real Property Law 
| Chapter 3 - Property Descriptions
| Chapter 4 - Contract Law 
| Chapter 5 - Conveyancing & Interest Calculations 
| Chapter 6 - Oil & Gas Lease 
| Chapter 7 - Ethics 

CPL Certification Exam Review Day 2

Covers Chapters 8 - 11 in the Oil & Gas Land Reference Volume

CPL Certification Exam Review Day 3

Covers Chapters 12 - 16 in the Oil & Gas Land Reference Volume

Complete CPL Certification Exam Review

Covers material in the Oil & Gas Land Reference Volume

| Chapter 1- AAPL & the Landman 
| Chapter 2- Real Property Law 
| Chapter 3- Property Descriptions
| Chapter 4- Contract Law 
| Chapter 5- Conveyancing & Interest Calculations 
| Chapter 6- Oil & Gas Lease 
| Chapter 7- Ethics 
| Chapter 8- Pooling 
| Chapter 9- Joint Operating Agreements 
| Chapter 10- Negotiation and the Petroleum Landman 
| Chapter 11- Well Trades 
| Chapter 12- Federal Onshore Lease and Exploratory Units 
| Chapter 13- Environmental Law and Regulation 
| Chapter 14- Offshore (OuterContinental Shelf) 
| Chapter 15- Mineral Landwork 
| Chapter 16- Federal Taxes on Oil and Gas Income 
| Chapter 17- Geographic Information Systems 

Access to recorded sessions of the diverse educational lineup being offered at the 2021 Annual Meeting with presentations by respected industry leaders and experts. This year, educational sessions offer the chance to earn up to 12 continuing education credits.

Hear from industry experts and leaders as they discuss trends, forecasts and educational topics relevant to that industry, including:

Hear from industry experts and leaders as they discuss trends, forecasts and educational topics relevant to that industry, including:

Credits: 9.00 CEU, 1.00 Ethics

-How are a lease and an easement different?
-Which type of conveyance is an oil and gas lease - a lease or an easement?
-Can I lose my easement?
-We've got the acreage under lease. Do we not we have all the surface rights we need?
-What are "beneficial uses" of a tract that may require additional surface rights?
-How do I figure out what rights I have...and if I might need additional rights?
-What happens if we don't secure all the surface rights we need? 

This webinar offers steps for dealing with difficult, challenging and unreasonable owners. Whether they are surface owners, mineral owners, working interest owners, or company owners, when we run in to challenging issues, there are communication tools that can help. This webinar touches on:

The lengthy, cost-intensive due diligence process is often fatal to closing an oil and gas asset sale. The recent quarantine has highlighted this problem, with deals being lost or delayed due to lack of access to county records.

This webinar will discuss a seldom-used deal structure that closes the sale immediately and postpones the typical pre-closing price adjustments to a future date. This deal structure offers benefits and risks to both buyer and seller, but it may be the solution that both parties need. The webcast will also cover the basics of purchase price adjustments under oil and gas PSAs and related matters.

This presentation will utilize AAPL's newly produced vignettes while taking you through a series of scenarios that often occur to industry professionals.

Major Topics Include:

According to IACCM's Oil and Gas Benchmark Study, over half of all Oil & Gas contracting professionals have initiatives to simplify their contracts and implement contract management tools. 

Join our experts Jerris Johnson of Lontra Energy and Peter Thomson of ContractRoom to learn how Oil & Gas companies have simplified their contracting process and improved cycle times. 

In this webinar you will learn how you can:

This webinar will cover the Acquisition of Distressed Oil and Gas Assets.  We will cover the types of distressed assets, the process for purchasing distressed assets and purchasing oil and gas leases in bankruptcy proceedings.  Additionally, we will discuss the due diligence of oil and gas lease acquisitions.

This webinar is designed to address operating agreement issues involving the AAPL Model Form Operating Agreement. This includes issues that have existed for a long time as well as new issues. Several recent court cases from various jurisdictions will also be discussed.

A basic level is most beneficial to an individual learning a new skill or with little to no experience in the subject. This level may be appropriate for individuals who are also looking for a refresher course.

This presentation will utilize AAPL's newly produced vignettes while taking you through a series of scenarios that often occur to industry professionals.

Major Topics Include:

Learn helpful tips for Negotiating through Email, IM, and Text Messages.

We try not to do it.  Face-to-Face Communication is the clearest form of communicating.  Phone communication is also a strong way to communicate..  Yet more and more we are being pushed to communicate and negotiate through digital forms.  When communication is stripped of being able to read facial expressions and responses, body language, and voice intonation - the communication lacks essential clues.  Yet more and more, communication and negotiations are being pushed to emails and text messages.  This is a one-hour webinar with tips for communicating effectively through email, instant messaging, and text messages.

COURSE LEVEL: Overview

A look at how a changing world, changing economics and a global pandemic may create a tipping point in the industry and what that means for those of us in it.  Mr. Purvis surveys wide-ranging dynamics, each with detailed research, before outlining ideas on how the industry and individuals can evolve with to the changing world. 

COURSE LEVEL: Advanced

Most private Oil & Gas Leases have language that requires royalty owners to pay their proportionate share of taxes, regulatory fees and the expenses to treat:

•       crude oil,

•       natural gas and

•       gas liquids

as well as expenses to market those products.

Some leases require royalty owners to pay their share of electricity bills, if the Lessee is required to use electric motors rather than internal combustion engines for power.

Most appellate courts have said those requirements are valid.

COURSE LEVEL: Basic

This presentation will utilize AAPL's newly produced vignettes while taking you through a series of scenarios that often occur to industry professionals. Topics in this webinar will include; Misuse of Confidential Information/Breaking the Law, Fraud & Duty Disclose.

Major Topics Include:

Professional Conduct / Unfiled Mining Claims

Fraud

Discrimination

Conflict of Interest / Professional Conduct

COURSE LEVEL: Basic

Topics Covered:

•          Latitude / Longitude

•          Meridians / Baselines

•          Townships / Ranges / Sections [Jeffersonian]

•          Metes & Bounds Descriptions

•          Lots & residential subdivisions

•          Texas Abstracts & Sections [non-Jeffersonian]

•          Eastern States [non-Jeffersonian]

•          A simple trick-of-the-trade for Celestial Navigation

•          Converting Degrees, Minutes and Seconds to Decimal Degrees

COURSE LEVEL: Intermediate

This webinar will focus on the interpretation and application of anti-washout provisions in oil and gas assignments and contracts.  The course will address the interpretation of anti-washout provisions and the application of those provisions.  Finally, the webinar will provide some drafting and practical strategies for working with anti-washout provisions.

This webinar will address the intersection of life estates and oil and gas development.  The webinar will cover an overview of life estates in real property and the relationship between the life tenant and the remainderman.  Second, the webinar will focus on working with life estates in the context of oil and gas development.  Participants will learn the requirements for taking leases covering lands subject to a life estate and how to distribute payments to owners of a life estate.  Finally, the webinar will provide an overview of the open mine doctrine and its application.

During the webinar, you will:

The seminar explores several common issues relating to the development of oil and gas assets involving cotenants. The presentation will address strategies for accounting to cotenants, adverse possession by a cotenant and how cotenancy is addressed in multiple jurisdictions.  Participants will gain strategies and solutions to work successfully with cotenants in the development of oil and gas assets.

During the webinar, you will:

This webinar will focus on the basics of what an oil & gas land professional needs to know about a solar lease. You will learn about the different types of solar energy projects (e.g., ground mount, parking canopy, rooftop). You will learn about the different types of solar agreements that may be required to obtain site control depending on the type of solar energy project. Additionally, this webinar will discuss the similarities and differences between key lease terms you may see in oil & gas versus key lease terms you may see in solar.

Topics Covered: 

This webinar will highlight recent developments in oil and gas law in Louisiana. Kiefaber & Oliva LLP attorney Patrick Schenkel will cover the basics of a mineral servitude and address the impact of statutory pooling (forced pooling) on mineral servitudes and mineral leases. The session will also provide strategies for navigating stacked geological units.

The session provides an analysis of recent trends and issues that oil & gas exploration and production companies face. Learn more about the applicable statutes and regulations, as well as the variation in states’ approaches to compulsory pooling.

This presentation will utilize AAPL's newly produced vignettes while taking you through a series of scenarios that often occur to industry professionals.

Topics in this webinar will include:

Find marginally producing gas units in existing shale plays and buy them for PDP value; then drill new shale wells to book new reserves. Attendees will learn how to search for, buy and prepare old units for new wells.

This webinar will cover all issues involving the Relinquishment Act from the historical background of its enactment to present-day issues involving leasing and conveying of Relinquishment Act lands.

Course Level: Overview

In this course, Marlin K Brown, CPL explains how to create a program to buy minerals in your companies' producing properties to improve your bottom line.

This webinar will include many helpful steps & topics:

Speaker: Phillip Guerra, CPL

This presentation will focus on how landmen can maximize their leasehold with solar. You will learn the land criteria for two different types of solar projects, terms of a mutual surface use agreement, and things to be aware of when it comes to title, engineering or design, construction, local and state legislation, and decommissioning. Additionally, this presentation will highlight certain benefits that a solar project could bring to an operator.

Speaker: Rebecca Hollis

Clean Energy Systems, Inc. (CES) is working to develop the carbon negative energy (CNE) plants that utilize waste biomass to produce clean renewable fuels such as electricity and hydrogen with 100% carbon capture. The plants make use of CES’ proprietary oxy-combustion technology and proven carbon capture and storage techniques to effectively remove harmful greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. First projects are being developed in California due to its unique attributes and incentive programs, but plants can be replicated across the United States.

Speaker: Robert Eli Kiefaber

The presentation will address the problem of allocating production and discuss the multiple responses that have emerged in varying jurisdictions.  As technology evolved, operators are able to drill longer and longer laterals that cross multiple tracts and/or pooled units, which have not combined to create a new pooled unit.  How production is allocated among those tracts and existing units gives rise to the "allocation problem."  The speaker will provide an overview of allocation wells and how allocation wells function in Texas.  Next, the presentation will explore how the allocation problem has been addressed in other basins and jurisdictions.

Course Level: Overview

This course will show how to identify your company's or client's deals from past years which may need more work, and what to do with them.  Farmouts and joint drilling deals may be producing marginally, or not at all.  Find out what new steps you can take to restore these properties to profitability. 

The phrase diversity and inclusion has become one heard quite often in boardrooms, universities, and organizations of all sizes. In this session, we will provide an introductory conversation about what diversity and inclusion are and why they are important especially in today’s society. You will also learn about the benefits of incorporating diversity and inclusion at work and hear how diversity and inclusion has positively impacted business within Chevron.

Future success in oil and gas will depend on a fundamental shift in the way things are done. Waiting for prices to recover is no longer the only strategy. It is time to work smarter by leveraging technology and spending strategically. Gain insights on how to utilize tools that can help your land departments create more value for investors and stakeholders in any environment.

Doug Sandridge’s presentation Hurdles to “Net-Zero” Carbon Emissions endeavors to analyze the technological, political and socio-economic issues which will impact our ability to attain Net-Zero Carbon Emissions through the use of renewable energy.  The presentation identifies seven formidable hurdles which must be overcome in order to attain Net-Zero Carbon Emissions.  For those committed to attainment of Net-Zero Carbon Emissions, this presentation helps to quantify the magnitude of the hurdles and seeks to create a practical roadmap which identifies the priorities and practical path forward towards a lower carbon economy.

The intention of this webinar is to identify problems frequently encountered in the drafting and negotiation of purchase and sale agreements for oil and gas assets and provide guidance on how such problems might be avoided—including, where applicable, specific drafting suggestions.  In so doing, it will be necessary as a preliminary matter to describe the various components of a standard PSA (title defect provisions, warranties, indemnities, etc.) and how they relate into each other to form a conceptual whole, as well as to describe what terms, language, etc. buyers and sellers (from their respective bargaining positions) want to have included or excluded from the agreement.

This webinar will provide an overview of several common mineral and oil & gas litigation issues. Specifically, it will address disputes between operators and non-operators under a joint operating agreement (JOA), including the removal of the operator and the types of actions that may arise under a JOA. This webinar will also address several common claims involving mineral and royalty interests. Additionally, the webinar will address strategies for resolving royalty disputes, interpleader actions, and mineral receiverships.