Title and curative issues rarely announce themselves loudly. More often, they surface late, slow transactions down, or quietly introduce risk that no one wants to own after close.
The posts collected here focus on recurring title and curative problems seen in real projects, including legal description defects, curative assumptions that do not hold, and ownership complications that affect leasing and development timelines.
The emphasis is practical. These are observations drawn from courthouse records, recorded instruments, and runsheets where something did not line up the way the deal model assumed.
September 05, 2025
Why the presence of a well does not automatically mean a lease is held by production—and how production standards, savings clauses, and timing actually control lease continuation.
April 11, 2025
In oil and gas transactions, few things feel more routine than the legal description.
March 27, 2025
A practical look at what due diligence still misses in oil & gas deals—and why “we ran title” isn’t the same as understanding risk.
February 03, 2025
A practical look at ancient title defects in Texas oil & gas work—what “marketable title” really means, why some problems can’t be papered over, and how risk decisions get made.
January 07, 2025
Marketable title is not perfect title. It is a risk standard based on whether a reasonable buyer would proceed without serious doubt, not whether every defect has been eliminated.