Got a letter from an operator you have never heard of? Send us a photo of it — we will tell you what it means, free.
RED FEATHER LAND & MINERALS

A Midland landman for mineral owners

Type your abstract.
See your country.

Every well the Railroad Commission knows about within three miles of your tract, drawn as a surveyor's plat — who operates it, when it was permitted, and what it made last year. Free, and nothing to sign.

The abstract is on your appraisal-district statement as "Abst." or "Abstract". Other county? All 254 are on the plat page. Don't have it? Send us the check stub and we will find it.

We checked the three miles around Section 2, Block 57 T3.

Six wells touch your tract. Four of them are BPX gas wells that made 942,000 mcf last year. Two have you on the pay deck. Two do not.

That is the first thing we will ask them about.

— your landman, Midland

The [Family] heirs
c/o [Name]
[City, State]

Which sounds like you?

1

“The checks just stopped.”

Or they never came at all. The money is usually still there — held at the operator, in suspense. We find it and cure what is holding it. Paid only when you are.

 2

“Someone wants to lease or buy.”

A written opinion of what the offer is worth, priced from what nearby wells actually make — then we negotiate it for you.

 3

“We inherited it. We don't know what.”

Heirship, probate filings, division orders, and a family entity that turns twenty fractions into one clean account.

 4

“I just want it handled.”

Management with a portal, a monthly check audit, lease offers answered, and one phone number to call.

How we charge, in plain words

Most managers take a percentage of everything you are paid, forever. We would rather be paid for the work.

The whole fee page
Recovery
A share of what we release from suspense — nothing if nothing is found.
Curative
A quoted project fee for heirship, deeds, and division orders.
Lease review
A flat fee for the written opinion; a share of the improvement if we negotiate.
Management
A reduced percentage, with the revenue check under Chapter 91 done every month.
The plat
Free. Always.

From the courthouse, not a call center

We read the same deed records the operators read. We just read them for you.

Red Feather is run by a working Permian landman in Midland. The tools on this site — the plat, the royalty check, the price model behind every lease opinion — are the ones we use on our own files.

Meet the landman
  1. STEP ONEYou send what you haveA photo of a check stub, a letter, a deed — or just a county and the family name.
  2. STEP TWOWe go to the courthouseDeed records, probates, the Commission's wells: what you own and who should be paying.
  3. STEP THREEYou get a plain-English letterWhat we found, what it is worth, what it costs to fix, and what happens if you do nothing.
  4. STEP FOURWe fix it, and you get paidSuspense released, division orders signed, the lease negotiated.

The owner's primer

All guides →
GuideHow to read a division orderThe decimal, and how to check it against your deed. GuideHeld by production, explainedWhy a 1950s lease still binds your minerals, and when it might not. GuideSuspense, escheat, and the clockWhere unpaid royalties go, and why pre-escheat recovery pays better. GuidePore space and produced waterTwo new things under your land that operators now want to lease.

Send us what you have. We will tell you what it is.

A check stub, a division order, a deed, a letter from an operator, or just the county and a family name. A landman replies within two business days with what we found and what, if anything, it would cost to pursue.

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A landman — not a form robot — replies within two business days. Prefer to talk? Call or text [PHONE].

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