# landman.training - landman.training | Free landman lessons and a practice exam

> Six free units for landmen, from the chain of title to reading a lease, each checked by a practice exam question. The paid course has a waitlist.

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## Pages, Calculators & Guides
- [Courthouse Index & Chain of Title Workbook | landman.training](https://landman.training/courthouse-index-and-chain-of-title-workbook): Free workbook on running the grantee index back to patent, running the grantor index forward, posting a runsheet, & applying the Texas recording act.
- [landman.training | Free landman lessons and a practice exam](https://landman.training/): Six free units for landmen, from the chain of title to reading a lease, each checked by a practice exam question. The paid course has a waitlist.
- [Louisiana Mineral Servitudes & Prescription Workbook](https://landman.training/louisiana-mineral-servitude-and-prescription-workbook): Free self-study landman workbook on the Louisiana Mineral Code: mineral servitudes, 10-year prescription of nonuse, good-faith drilling interruptions.
- [New Mexico Federal BLM & State Land Lease Workbook](https://landman.training/new-mexico-federal-and-state-oil-and-gas-leases-workbook): Free landman workbook on New Mexico oil & gas title: BLM Record Title vs. Operating Rights, New Mexico State Land Office (SLO) V0/VB/VC lease forms.
- [Oil & Gas Lease Clauses & Forced Pooling Workbook](https://landman.training/oil-and-gas-lease-clauses-and-pooling-workbook): Free workbook on oil & gas lease clauses (habendum, paying quantities, shut-in, pooling, & Pugh severances) & Oklahoma OCC forced pooling elections.
- [Oklahoma Forced Pooling & OCC Order Workbook | landman.training](https://landman.training/oklahoma-forced-pooling-and-occ-order-workbook): Free self-study landman workbook on Oklahoma Corporation Commission (OCC) spacing units, 52 O.S. Section 87.1 forced pooling elections, and NRI math.
- [Royalty Decimals & Duhig Rule Workbook | landman.training](https://landman.training/royalty-decimals-and-duhig-rule-workbook): Free workbook on calculating Net Mineral Acres (NMA), 8-decimal Net Revenue Interest (NRI), fixed vs. floating NPRI deductions, & Duhig over-conveyance rules.
- [Texas Relinquishment Act & RRC Spacing Workbook](https://landman.training/texas-relinquishment-act-and-rrc-workbook): Free workbook on Texas GLO Relinquishment Act leasing, Free Royalty school lands, & RRC Rule 37 & Rule 38.

## Key Questions Answered on This Domain
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## Full Page Summaries & Sections

### Courthouse Index & Chain of Title Workbook | landman.training
- **URL**: https://landman.training/courthouse-index-and-chain-of-title-workbook
- **Headline**: Courthouse Index & Chain of Title Workbook.
- **Summary**: Free workbook on running the grantee index back to patent, running the grantor index forward, posting a runsheet, & applying the Texas recording act.
- **Sections**: MethodGrantee back, grantor forward; Worked ExampleLate-recorded deed problem; Join the full course waitlist; Contact; Entity; Workbooks
  - landman.trainingWorkbook · Unit 2 Supplement
  - How to take a tract from today's tax roll back to the sovereign patent in the grantee index, bring every owner forward in the grantor index, and post a runsheet without dropping a severed mineral branch.
  - When you walk into a county clerk's vault or open a digital index, records are organized either by party name (grantor-grantee indexes) or by land description (tract books). In Texas and many eastern or southern states, official clerk records are indexed by grantor and grantee names, often grouped by decade or surname letter-pair.

### landman.training | Free landman lessons and a practice exam
- **URL**: https://landman.training/
- **Headline**: Free landman training, one unit at a time.
- **Summary**: Six free units for landmen, from the chain of title to reading a lease, each checked by a practice exam question. The paid course has a waitlist.
- **Sections**: Syllabus; Unit 1Working for a client; Unit 2Running the chain of title; Unit 3Fractions and the Duhig rule; Unit 4Texas state lands and the RRC; Unit 5Oklahoma forced pooling; Unit 6Reading an oil and gas lease; Practice exam
  - Six short lessons on the work a landman does, from running the chain of title to reading a lease. Written for people new to land work, field landmen and title examiners. Each unit ends with a question in the practice exam.
  - Six units, each on one part of the job. Every unit cites what it relies on and ends with one question in the practice exam. State law differs and changes, so the units say when a rule is Texas or Oklahoma law.
  - A landman hired to lease or buy for a company acts as that company's agent. Agency law gives the agent a duty of loyalty: act for the client's benefit in everything connected with the job. In practice that means four things.

### Louisiana Mineral Servitudes & Prescription Workbook
- **URL**: https://landman.training/louisiana-mineral-servitude-and-prescription-workbook
- **Headline**: Louisiana Mineral Servitudes & Prescription Workbook.
- **Summary**: Free self-study landman workbook on the Louisiana Mineral Code: mineral servitudes, 10-year prescription of nonuse, good-faith drilling interruptions.
- **Sections**: MethodMineral servitudes and the 10-year clock; Worked ExampleOff-tract unit well prescription split; Join the full course waitlist; Contact; Entity; Workbooks
  - landman.trainingWorkbook · Louisiana Mineral Code Supplement
  - Why you cannot own a perpetual severed mineral estate in Louisiana: how mineral servitudes are created, how 10-year prescription of nonuse extinguishes them, and how unit operations interrupt prescription.
  - Under the Louisiana Mineral Code (La. R.S. Title 31), oil and gas in place are not owned separately from the soil. When a landowner sells or reserves mineral rights, the conveyance creates a mineral servitude (the right to explore for and produce minerals), which extinguishes automatically if not used for 10 consecutive years.

### New Mexico Federal BLM & State Land Lease Workbook
- **URL**: https://landman.training/new-mexico-federal-and-state-oil-and-gas-leases-workbook
- **Headline**: New Mexico Federal BLM & State Land Lease Workbook.
- **Summary**: Free landman workbook on New Mexico oil & gas title: BLM Record Title vs. Operating Rights, New Mexico State Land Office (SLO) V0/VB/VC lease forms.
- **Sections**: MethodRecord Title vs. Operating Rights; Worked ExampleDepth-severed BLM assignment problem; Join the full course waitlist; Contact; Entity; Workbooks
  - landman.trainingWorkbook · New Mexico Public Lands Supplement
  - In Lea, Eddy, Chaves, and San Juan Counties, New Mexico, most sections combine federal BLM leases, New Mexico State Land Office (SLO) leases, and fee minerals. Learn how Record Title differs from Operating Rights and why county clerk records alone are never enough.
  - On fee land in Texas, a single County Clerk chain shows who owns the oil and gas lease. On federal and state lands in New Mexico, ownership is tracked in two parallel record systems: the federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) or New Mexico State Land Office (SLO) agency files, and the County Clerk records in Lovington (Lea County) or Carlsbad (Eddy County).

### Oil & Gas Lease Clauses & Forced Pooling Workbook
- **URL**: https://landman.training/oil-and-gas-lease-clauses-and-pooling-workbook
- **Headline**: Oil & Gas Lease Clauses & Pooling Workbook.
- **Summary**: Free workbook on oil & gas lease clauses (habendum, paying quantities, shut-in, pooling, & Pugh severances) & Oklahoma OCC forced pooling elections.
- **Sections**: Lease AuditPrimary term, savings clauses & Pugh; ComparisonTexas lease pooling vs. Oklahoma OCC pooling; Join the full course waitlist; Contact; Entity; Workbooks
  - landman.trainingWorkbook · Units 5 & 6 Supplement
  - How a lease stays alive at the end of its primary term, how surface and depth Pugh clauses sever held-by-production (HBP) acreage, and how voluntary Texas lease pooling differs from Oklahoma OCC forced pooling.
  - In Texas, an oil and gas lease conveys a fee simple determinable in the minerals. If the primary term expires without production in paying quantities, the lease terminates automatically unless a specific savings clause bridges the gap:

### Oklahoma Forced Pooling & OCC Order Workbook | landman.training
- **URL**: https://landman.training/oklahoma-forced-pooling-and-occ-order-workbook
- **Headline**: Oklahoma Forced Pooling & OCC Order Workbook.
- **Summary**: Free self-study landman workbook on Oklahoma Corporation Commission (OCC) spacing units, 52 O.S. Section 87.1 forced pooling elections, and NRI math.
- **Sections**: MethodSpacing units and pooling elections; Worked ExamplePooled respondent NRI math; Join the full course waitlist; Contact; Entity; Workbooks
  - landman.trainingWorkbook · Unit 5 Supplement
  - How Oklahoma Corporation Commission (OCC) drilling and spacing orders establish 640-acre or multi-section horizontal units, how statutory forced pooling works under 52 O.S. § 87.1, and how to track 20-day respondent elections.
  - In Oklahoma, when two or more owners in an established drilling and spacing unit have not agreed to pool their interests for a proposed well, the applicant can petition the Oklahoma Corporation Commission (OCC) for a compulsory pooling order under 52 O.S. § 87.1.

### Royalty Decimals & Duhig Rule Workbook | landman.training
- **URL**: https://landman.training/royalty-decimals-and-duhig-rule-workbook
- **Headline**: Royalty Decimals & Duhig Rule Workbook.
- **Summary**: Free workbook on calculating Net Mineral Acres (NMA), 8-decimal Net Revenue Interest (NRI), fixed vs. floating NPRI deductions, & Duhig over-conveyance rules.
- **Sections**: EquationsFrom mineral share to division order decimal; Duhig DrillWhen the reservation fails vs. holds; Join the full course waitlist; Contact; Entity; Workbooks
  - landman.trainingWorkbook · Unit 3 Supplement
  - Worked problems on Net Mineral Acres (NMA), pooled unit royalty decimals, fixed versus fraction-of-royalty NPRIs, and how Duhig v. Peavy-Moore Lumber Co. resolves warranty-deed over-conveyances.
  - Every division order decimal rests on three numbers: the owner's fractional share of the minerals in the tract, the royalty rate in the oil and gas lease covering that share, and the tract's participation factor in the producing unit.

### Texas Relinquishment Act & RRC Spacing Workbook
- **URL**: https://landman.training/texas-relinquishment-act-and-rrc-workbook
- **Headline**: Texas Relinquishment Act & RRC Workbook.
- **Summary**: Free workbook on Texas GLO Relinquishment Act leasing, Free Royalty school lands, & RRC Rule 37 & Rule 38.
- **Sections**: GLO LandsMineral-classified vs. Free Royalty; RRC RulesRule 37, Rule 38 & Allocation; Join the full course waitlist; Contact; Entity; Workbooks
  - landman.trainingWorkbook · Unit 4 Supplement
  - How to check the Texas General Land Office (GLO) archive file for mineral classification before leasing West Texas or South Texas school sections, and how Railroad Commission (RRC) spacing and density rules interact with your lease chain.
  - In Texas, alternate railway grant sections (usually the even-numbered sections in a survey block) were set aside for the Permanent School Fund. When the State sold those sections into private hands, whether the buyer received the minerals turns on the land classification on the date of sale, not merely the words printed in the patent.

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## Complete FAQ Reference

### Q: Is it really free?
A: Yes. The six units and the practice exam are on this page, with no account and no sign-up. The waitlist is only for the paid course.
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### Q: What will the paid course cover, and what will it cost?
A: That isn't set. There's no price, format or start date yet. A longer course may follow, and the waitlist is how you would hear about it if it does.
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### Q: Is there an instructor or a live class?
A: No. It's self-study: read the unit, answer in the blue book, read the notes. Nobody grades you but the page.
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### Q: Is this legal advice?
A: No. We're landmen, not attorneys. The units are general education about Texas and Oklahoma practice and are not a substitute for the advice of an attorney. Laws change, so check the sources each unit lists.
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### Q: I own minerals and have a question about my own lease.
A: These units are written for people learning the job. For an owner's question, landman.help is our owner-side site.
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### Q: Who runs this site?
A: Independent landmen at landman.training. Call (307) 263-8515 or email hello@landman.training .
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