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VOLUME 14, ISSUE 8 SEPTEMBER 2016
Treasurer’s Letter
AAPL Events 3
New Members 5
Questions from the 6
field
Industry Affairs 7-10
Getting to know a 11,12
Member Christmas Raffle 13
In less than 30 days, we will all be heading to the polls to cast our vote for the next President of the United States. This fateful day is nearing at a rapid pace, and I wish you all the best of luck in your decision. I cannot place my finger on it exactly, but for some reason this election leads me to thinking about the idea of competency and how important it is to all of our careers. In this industry, and in this organization, we often preach about the role of networking and how important it is to participate and get your name and face known. I agree with that, but I was reminded recently, and I also believe, that competency is the number one factor in shaping the success of a landman and all other professionals in the workplace. Why do we network? To me, it is to learn something new about somebody or something. A person’s networking skills alone are not what you hear about. You hear about, among other things, somebody’s ability to be creative and negotiate a difficult deal that ensures all parties perceive an equitable outcome; one’s ability to understand and speak to the financials and economics of a new opportunity; and one’s ability and sincerity to act as a good mentor/friend/coworker by actively teaching and sharing their knowledge with others. Networking is only valuable to you if you know what you are talking about! Otherwise, frankly, it is probably hurting your career.
We all should remind ourselves from time to time that learning never ends. Whether the landman that offices next you is 22 years old or 60+ years old, I guarantee you there is something that person can teach you that could be immediately valuable to your career. Learn and be competent when networking and leverage the relationships you have developed to learn something new, and pass on your knowledge to others. Over these challenging many months our industry has experienced, competent individuals stand out among the rest and they will continue to do so as we climb out of the lower prices and into the next chapter of our careers. Luckily for us, OCAPL and AAPL offer many opportunities in which you can increase your knowledge and skillset. Some of those can be found on the immediately following page and others can be found by a few clicks of the mouse to the OCAPL and AAPL website. I encourage you all to attend OCAPL events with an intent to learn something new and to look for training opportunities through our organization or another avenue that will improve your competency.
Godspeed,
Matt Beavers, RPL
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Girls Night Out – Water’s Edge Winery - FULL
Fun Run - Regatta Park, Boathouse District
Educational Luncheon – Speaker Dr. Russell Evans, OCU Meinders School of Business - Topic – “The economic outlook of the industry, the state and beyond” Sponsor – OCU Meinders School of Business
Monday Night Meeting – DATE CHANGE TO 2ND MONDAY DUE TO VENUE CONFLICT - Awards Night – Landman of the Year, Wm Majors Award and Lifetime Achievement Awards along with Committee Recognition
OCAPL/Westbrook Foundation Thanksgiving Dinner w/Boys and Girls Club
Christmas Party – Skirvin Hilton Hotel – Downtown OKC
Educational Luncheon – Speaker TBAMonday Night Meeting – Social Meeting – No Speaker
Educational Luncheon – Speaker TBAMonday Night Meeting – Presidents Night – Speaker – Pamela Feist, AAPL President
Educational Luncheon – Speaker TBAMonday Night Meeting – Speaker – Steven C. Agee, PH.D, Dean & Professor of Economics, Meinders School of Business, OCU
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September 6, 2016 Report of the Nominating Committee
The Chair of the Nominating Committee requested nominations from the general membership for the OCAPL offices of Vice-President, Treasurer, Secretary, AAPL Director and 2 positions on the Executive Committee. In accordance with OCAPL by-laws, the Nominating Chair, the current Vice-President, the current 1st Past-President, and 4 active OCAPL members appointed by the Chair met to discuss the nominees. All nominations were carefully reviewed and considered. The committee discussed each nominee and made a decision on each office to recommend to the President and the Executive Committee. The Nominating Committee presented the following Slate to the Executive Committee at its regular September board meeting: Position Nominee To Serve Vice President Matt Beavers 2017 Treasurer Jeff Brooks 2017 Secretary Jerrod Hardegree 2017 AAPL Director Lindsey Miles 7/1/17-6/30/19 Executive Committee Jennifer Campo 2017 and 2018 Executive Committee Michael Fleharty 2017 and 2018 With Jerrod Hardegree’s selection as the new Secretary, his remaining time on the Executive Committee will be filled by Sam McCurdy for 2017. Robert Rice is our current Vice-President and pursuant to our by-laws he automatically ascends into the Office of President. The Slate was confirmed by a majority vote of the OCAPL Executive Committee. Sincerely, Julie E. Woodard and Colt Parks Chair and Co-Chair, 2016 Nominating Committee
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Questions from the Field
Timothy C. DowdELIAS BOOKS BROWN & NELSON
Editor’s Note: Each month this column will be de-voted to answering oil and gas title questions.
Q: O owns an overriding royalty interest in a lease. Subsequently, he acquires a leasehold for a working inter-est in the same lease.
Subsequently, O assigns its interest in the leasing assigning “all his interest in the lease.” Without anything further, was the overriding royalty interest also assigned? F.H.
A: The answer is going to depend a great deal on the language of the assignment. There are two issues:
1. Was the language in the assignment broad enough to assign the overriding royalty interest?
2. Was there merger of title?
As to the first issue, conveyance of “all leasehold inter-est” and certainly “all working interest” in a lease will not likely convey the overriding royalty interest.
When the language of the assignment recites that it as-signs all interest in the leasehold and does not state any-thing further, the more conservative viewpoint is that the overriding royalty interest was not also assigned.
One commentator asserts that a conveyance of “all right, title and interest” in the lease should assign both the over-riding royalty interest and the leasehold interest. How-ever, this author is not so certain. Surprisingly, the author cannot locate any cases directly on this issue.
Some assignments have been known to state that it is the intent to assign all interest of any nature or any type. In that event, the examiner would be safe to assume, with a notation, that the overriding royalty interest was also as-signed.
One key is to determine whether any language in the assignment is broad enough to include an overriding royalty interest. Of course, sometimes the assignment also includes a purported net revenue interest. The calculation of this net revenue number may also aid in determining whether the overriding royalty interest was intended to be assigned.
The law provides for merger of title in some circumstanc-es.
A prior principle of law was that merger of title always took place when a greater and lesser estate coincide in
Questions from the FieldTimothy C. Dowd
ELIAS BOOKS BROWN & NELSON
Editor’s Note: Each month this column will be devoted to answering oil and gas title questions.
Q: I examined an Oil and Gas Lease dated July 1, 1984, covering tracts in Sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6. I have also examined copies of Oklahoma Corporation Commission Completion Reports (Form 1002) for the Smith 1-1 Well drilled in the SE/4 and the Smith No. 2 Well located in the NE/4 of Section 1.
During the primary term of the lease, two wells were drilled on the lands in Section 1. The first well, which is denoted as the Smith 1-1 Well, was commenced on October 13, 1984 and drilled in the S/2 SE/4 (which is not part of the leased tract). The Smith 1-1 was completed in a formation, which was established as a 160-acre drilling and spacing unit for the SE/4.
A second well, denoted as the Smith No. 2 Well, was drilled in the NE/4 of Section 1 (part of the leased tract) on April 24, 1986, and completed in the Hartshorne formation. The Hartshorne formation has not been established as a drilling and spacing unit for the NE/4 of Section 1.
Does the drilling of the Smith 1-1 Well in a drilling and spacing unit of 160-acres cause the lease to terminate outside the SE/4? What is the impact of the Smith No. 2 Well Well on the extension of the Smith 1-1 lease?
A: Title 52 O.S. 87.1(b) recites: "In case of a spacing unit of one hundred and sixty (160) acres or more, no oil and/or gas leasehold interest outside the spacing unit involved may be held by production from the spacing unit not more than ninety (90) days beyond expiration of the primary term of the lease." (This statute is frequently described as the “Statutory Pugh Clause”).
Unfortunately, there is no case law and only one law review article that construes this statute and its impact on wells drilled. The only guidance is the wording of the statute. In this situation the oil and gas lease would not have been extended solely by virtue of production from the spacing unit and the well drilled in the SE/4, but the lease was
the same person or entity and in the same right without any intermediate estate. In that event the lesser or subor-dinate interest merges into the greater interest. In other words, the overriding royalty interest would have merged into the leasehold interest. However, this doctrine of legal merger has been determined to be practically extinct.
The modern rule is that equity will permit or prevent a merger of estates according to the intention of the parties. The intent must either be actually proved, or alternatively, it can be implied from the fact that some mergers would be against the interest of the parties in whom several estates or interest have unified.
Therefore, as this is a matter of intent, in the ab-sence of other evidence, generally, a title examiner cannot conclude from a simple review of the instruments whether or not the overriding royalty interest has, in fact, been as-signed.
Therefore, it is the better practice to presume that there is no merger so as to preserve the issue for resolution upon production. Unfortunately, this may require a court proceeding.
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IEA: Oil market’s rebalancing could come faster if OPEC sticks to targetHOUSTON, 10/11/2016By Oil & Gas Journal Editors
“The waiting game is over,” the International Energy Agency said in the October issue of its Oil Market Report. This is in regard to the fact that the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries has effectively abandoned its free-market policy set nearly 2 years ago, setting a new supply target of between 32.5-33 million b/d.
Critical details apart from the target, such as individual country allocations, production baseline, and implementation date, are still to be determined. The price of oil has risen by 15% to more than $53/bbl since the deal, the first to cut supply since 2008.
However, “global oil inventories are far too high—in the view of some producers—and they aren’t being worked off nearly fast enough,” IEA said.
If OPEC sticks to its new target, the oil market’s rebalancing could come faster. Otherwise, even with tentative signs
that bulging inventories are starting to decline, the market may remain oversupply through the first half of next year, IEA said.
Demand
According to IEA’s latest forecast, world oil demand will rise 1.2 million b/d this year, with a similar expansion expected in 2017.
The demand data for 2015 has been revised upwards by nearly 200,000 b/d since last month’s report to 95.04 million b/d, due to the latest US 2015 data being above that first reported and, to some extent, upgrades of Asian demand outside the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
The major upward baseline data revisions have curtailed the growth estimate for 2016. Quarter-based global demand growth continues to slow, dropping from a 5-year high of 2.5 million b/d in third-quarter 2015 to a 4-year low of 800,000 b/d in this year’s third quarter due to vanishing OECD growth and a marked deceleration in China. After unusually mild winter weather in much of the northern hemisphere in fourth-quarter 2015, year-on-year growth
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should rebound somewhat in this year’s fourth quarter.
Much weaker-than-expected US oil demand data for July pulled down the estimate of overall demand for the third quarter and for
the whole of 2016. Growth estimates fell heavily by 415,000 b/d in July year-over-year, as upgrades to the baseline series further reduced year-on-year comparisons.
Chinese oil demand growth has all but vanished in this year’s third quarter compared with a year ago, pulled down by a substantial slowdown in industrial oil usage. “Some of the slowdown may be temporary due to forced factory closures ahead of September’s G20 meeting in Hangzhou, but the heady gains seen as recently as mid-2015 are unlikely to be repeated any time soon,” IEA said in the report.
Indian demand growth returned with a vengeance, averaging 420,000 b/d in August, according to preliminary data. Strong gains in road transport demand and residential LPG use lent support, more than offsetting declines in naphtha and kerosene.
Supply
Global oil supplies rose 600,000 b/d year-over-year in September. Non-OPEC production in September was up nearly 500,000 b/d from August to 56.6 million b/d on higher volumes from Russia and Kazakhstan. Following maintenance in August, Russian crude and condensate production surged 400,000 b/d to a post-Soviet high above 11.1 million b/d. Kazakh output also recovered from a steeper-than-expected cut during maintenance. Overall non-OPEC output in 2016 is forecast to decline 900,000 b/d to 56.6 million b/d, before rising by 400,000 b/d in 2017.
In the US, while output held up better than expected in July—the latest month for which official data are available—crude oil production dropped below 8.7 million b/d, its lowest since May 2014 and more than 700,000 b/d below 2015.
OPEC crude output rose to a record high of 33.64 million b/d, as Iraq pumped at record rates and Libya reopened export terminals. Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and the UAE held supply at or near historic highs, while Iran sustained pre-sanctions levels of close to 3.7 million b/d. Output from the group’s 14 members stood 900,000 b/d above a year ago.
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IEA: Oil market’s rebalancing could come faster if OPEC sticks to target HOUSTON, 10/11/2016 By Oil & Gas Journal Editors “The waiting game is over,” the International Energy Agency said in the October issue of its Oil Market Report. This is in regard to the fact that the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries has effectively abandoned its free-market policy set nearly 2 years ago, setting a new supply target of between 32.5-33 million b/d. Critical details apart from the target, such as individual country allocations, production baseline, and implementation date, are still to be determined. The price of oil has risen by 15% to more than $53/bbl since the deal, the first to cut supply since 2008. However, “global oil inventories are far too high—in the view of some producers—and they aren’t being worked off nearly fast enough,” IEA said. If OPEC sticks to its new target, the oil market’s rebalancing could come faster. Otherwise, even with tentative signs that bulging inventories are starting to decline,
the market may remain oversupply through the first half of next year, IEA said. Demand According to IEA’s latest forecast, world oil demand will rise 1.2 million b/d this year, with a similar expansion expected in 2017. The demand data for 2015 has been revised upwards by nearly 200,000 b/d since last month’s report to 95.04 million b/d, due to the latest US 2015 data being above that first reported and, to some extent, upgrades of Asian demand outside the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. The major upward baseline data revisions have curtailed the growth estimate for 2016. Quarter-based global demand growth continues to slow, dropping from a 5-year high of 2.5 million b/d in third-quarter 2015 to a 4-year low of 800,000 b/d in this year’s third quarter due to vanishing OECD growth and a marked deceleration in China. After unusually mild winter weather in much of the northern hemisphere in fourth-quarter 2015, year-on-year growth should rebound somewhat in this year’s fourth quarter.
Much weaker-than-expected US oil demand data for July pulled down the estimate of overall demand for the third quarter and for
the whole of 2016. Growth estimates fell heavily by 415,000 b/d in July year-over-year, as upgrades to the baseline series
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Drones are coming to squeeze more savings from oil patchPosted by Bloomberg October 05, 2016
General Electric Co. has a solution for U.S. oil and natural gas explorers struggling to save more money after squeezing drilling costs by more than a third during the past two years.
Raven, a helicopter drone being developed in part by GE at its new $125 million oil and gas technology center in Oklahoma City, is being tested to sniff for methane emissions at well sites. GE proved during a trial run in July that Raven could find gas leaking from a pair of well sites a half mile from each other in the Fayetteville Shale of Arkansas.
Detecting and stopping leaks, a requirement the Environmental Protection Agency enacted earlier this year, is the first of many planned applications for oilfield drones to make workers more productive in an industry that has suffered billions of dollars in spending cuts, hundreds of thousands of layoffs and more than 100 bankruptcies in North America over the past two years. A broader benefit will come from Raven’s custom software,
used to plan flight paths and easily interpret the mountains of data it gathers.
“When you think of Project Raven and the usage of new tools and applications, it’s going to be key to take the industry forward,” Lorenzo Simoneli, chief executive officer at GE Oil & Gas, said in an interview Tuesday from his company’s new research center, a day ahead of its grand opening. “There’s a lot that you can do going forward to help drive productivity.”
The world’s largest oilfield contractors are grappling with new ways to set themselves apart with inventions that not only capture massive amounts of data but also make it user-friendly for oil companies. GE’s foray into drones comes at a time when regulators are still mapping out rules for their commercial use.
“The downturn magnified the necessity of maximizing recovery and efficiency, a pursuit which is blurring the lines between technology, industrials, and oilfield service leaders,” James West, an analyst at Evercore-ISI, wrote last month in a note to investors.
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As more advanced sensors roll out, the amount of oilfield data grows faster than companies know what to do with it. Key oil and gas decision makers have access to only about 1 percent of the available data, West wrote. The rest is unstructured or unusable.GE’s oilfield drone project began last year after some of its other industrial divisions explored how they could use unmanned aircraft. Other applications could include inspecting flare stacks at refineries or checking gear for mechanical wear and corrosion, John Westerheide, head of the Raven project, said in an interview.
“Where GE’s taking this from something a guy in a garage can do to what only GE can do, it’s around the way we’re communicating and planning the flights and the way we’re integrating the data,” Westerheide said.
The test in July was done in partnership with Southwestern Energy Co. and Oklahoma State University. The drone technology looked promising enough that Southwestern’s interested in testing the Raven again, said Douglas Jordan, director of the natural gas and oil producer’s corporate environmental
program, said. It’s still too early to say what kind of cost savings the drone could produce, he said.
GE is working on having Raven make methane inspections go three times faster, said Ashraf El-Messidi, a research engineer for GE working on the project. Under the current way, a worker must walk around the well with an infrared camera to check for leaks. And even if one is discovered, it works like a smoke detector, giving only a yes or no answer, but not saying how significant the leak might be, he said.
In another month, GE will launch a third test drone, this one a black-and-red model with six sets of helicopter blades, each 21 inches long. Weighing in at less then 20 pounds, the drone can glide through the air at up to 50 miles an hour, powered by six rechargeable batteries. The true value in GE’s modified drone is being able to fly as long as 40 minutes, carrying a laser-based sensor that shoots back live methane data to an iPad-wielding worker on the ground.
Dustin Sharber, a 30-year-old drone hobbyist who’s also a research engineer on the Raven team, said advancement of the flying robots has climbed “leaps and bounds” from the radio-controlled planes of his childhood.
“People hear UAVs and drones and advanced sensors and they get really excited — that’s really flashy,” Westerheide said. “That is legitimately really cool, fun stuff to come to work for everyday.”
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Q. Teresa, your dedication and service to OCAPL keeps things running so smoothly. How long have you had the Manager role for OCAPL?
A. 13 years! When I started, our membership was at 765. It peaked in 2013 with 1840 members and we currently have 1386.
Q. How did you get into the Land business?
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recommendation and it’s been the perfect job for me. I’ve learned a lot and made many friends along the way.
Q. What do you enjoy most about this industry?
A. My father, Bill Hermen, was an independent geologist. He instilled the love of the business early on in me by teaching me the “scientific side” and answering my crazy questions. He would even take me to and an occasional well site. It’s totally family driven for me. My husband is in the business and my daughter just graduated from OU with a Petroleum Engineering Degree. My son is a Sophomore at OU pursuing his Energy Management degree.
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Q. What is one interesting fact about you?
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Q. What is your favorite vacation spot?
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2015 Newsletter Chair:Michael Fleharty
Prepared by Dustin Burton
President *Watkins, Nick [email protected] President *Rice, Robert [email protected] *Beavers, Matt [email protected] *Brooks, Jeff [email protected] Past President *Love, Amy [email protected] Past President *Miles, Lindsey [email protected] Director *Miles, Lindsey [email protected] and Nominations Chair Woodard, Julie [email protected] and Nominations Co-Chair *Parks, Colt [email protected] Affairs Chair McGee, Jordan [email protected] Affairs Co-Chair Cotter, Heather [email protected] Chair Cloer, Ryan [email protected] Co-Chair Jeffries, Zach [email protected] Chair McCurdy, Sam [email protected] Co-Chair Carlozzi, Brian [email protected] Walker, Mike [email protected] Committee *Fixley, Lindsey [email protected] Landman Chair *Hardegree, Jerrod [email protected] Landman Co-Chair Wickham, Diana [email protected] Landman Co-Chair Gibbs, Brian [email protected] Tournament Chair Graham, David [email protected] Tournament Co-Chair Miller, Jeff [email protected] Run Chair *Dickensheet, Dan [email protected] Run Co-Chair Rohlmeier, Heather [email protected] Night Out Chair Brockus, Alva [email protected] Night Out Co-Chair Anderson, Leslie [email protected] Tournament Chair *Naik, Bhavin [email protected] Tournament Co-Chair Kammerer, Brandon [email protected] Affairs Chair Sweeney, Mont [email protected] Affairs Chair Meek, Aaron [email protected] Affairs Co-Chair Hampton, Dave [email protected] Chair Love, Bethany [email protected] Night Speaker Chair Campo, Jennifer [email protected] Chair Fleharty, Michael [email protected] EM Mentoring Co-Chair Vawter, Brandt [email protected] EM Mentoring Co-Chair Hennigan, Bryan [email protected] EM Advisor Long, Steve [email protected] Relations Chair Raney, Grant [email protected] Relations Co-Chair Pribyl, Jordan [email protected] Advisor Richards, Jack [email protected] Clays Chair Reed, Shannon [email protected] Clays Co-Chair Ritter, Chase [email protected] Chair Sevier, John [email protected] Co-Chair Wolfe, Alex [email protected] Take Off Chair Coshow, Larry [email protected] Take Off Co-Chair Love, Amy [email protected] Manager Portwood, Teresa [email protected]
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