Earning Criteria

• Successfully complete the required 6 courses: PLM Fundamentals, Curing Land Titles, PLM Practices, Calculating Oil and Gas Interests, Property and Mineral Ownership, and Basic Contracts and Agreements
• Student will be introduced to the oil and gas lease, oil and gas law, mineral, surface and royalty rights, calculating net mineral interests, and more.
• Student will take an in-depth and thorough look at the studying land and mineral ownership in the U.S., differing types of property ownership, the rules surrounding ownership and conveying property, varying types of conveyances, testate and intestate succession, the many types of title transfers that an result for court actions, curing land titles, and the law governing oil and gas ownership and development.
• Student will gain an understanding of contract law, and how it is designed for oil and gas professionals working directly or indirectly in land or land administration.
• Student will understand the process of petroleum land management.
• Student will gain an understanding of the rules relating to title conveyances, burdens, net revenue interests, overriding royalty interests, units, payouts, non-consenting interests, and more.
• Student will gain an 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.