Peak Land Services

Peak Land Services is a land services company working with clients in the utility, energy and infrastructure industries. The staff includes land agents, acquisition agents and permitting specialists, and the company states that its people have worked with renewable developers, utilities and oil and gas producers. It was founded by Mitchell Eberenz and Cole Frederick.

The site lists offices in Fort Worth, Texas, Auburn, California and Valparaiso, Indiana, alongside a presence in Midland, Texas, and describes assignments handled across the country. Inc. 5000 rankings displayed on the site place the company at number 946 overall, number 32 in energy and number 2 in Midland, Texas.

Oil and gas land services

Land work runs from acquisition research through permitting and surface access:

• Due diligence on prospective acquisitions, from large land purchases to partial asset sales
• Bankruptcy and lien work, including county clerk and district clerk lien searches
• Mineral lien filing, covering lien affidavits and owner notice requirements under Chapter 56 of the Texas property code
• Identifying open acreage available to lease
• Leasing and negotiation with mineral owners
• Title and curative
• Right of way and surface acquisition

Identifying open acreage

The company describes a systematic method for establishing whether land is open and available to lease, applied in the Midland Basin:

• General production research where production exists
• Lease checks
• Deciphering Pugh language to find possible horizontal or vertical severances
• Analyzing current production information against any active leases
• Reviewing lease clauses that could cause a lease to lapse across all or part of the subject lands

Permitting

Permitting covers standard permits through to MIPA permits, and the company states that its management team has assisted in permitting hundreds of wells. It describes the choice of permitting route as a factor in non-perf zones and in a well's estimated ultimate recovery, and treats permit approval time as a cost factor for operators. The SWR 37 and MIPA processes are both named among the routes handled.

Utility and right of way services

Right of way acquisition covers pipeline and electric line projects, along with site acquisition and due diligence. Related services listed include:

• Land rights research
• Encroachment management
• Inspection services
• Site selection and due diligence
• Negotiations

GIS mapping

Custom GIS maps are built to whatever level of detail a project calls for, and work is supported by the company's GIS Smartmap Management platform. Smartmap creates spatial relationships between a project's documents and data, including title opinions and ownership reports, and stores maps and files in the cloud, so selecting a tract or parcel on the map surfaces the records tied to it.

• Smartmap Management and Mobile Smartmap Management: real time project status updates and document sharing, reachable in the field on any device
• Peak Prospect Marketing: maps prepared for investor presentations or for marketing current assets for sale
• Peak Status GIS Mapping: project status mapping supported by Smartmap Management