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Oil and gas land title automation software: from courthouse to closing decision in 75% less time.

Your team is spending weeks on work that should take days. Enverus and Tracts connect courthouse document retrieval, ownership interpretation, and operational decision-making in one automated workflow — the only one in the market. That means title timelines cut by 75%, document review 38x faster, and $5B worth of royalty calculation errors removed at the source. Faster drilling decisions. More deals closed before competitors finish their courthouse runs.

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Land title hasn't changed. The cost of that has.

The problem looks different depending on where you sit. But the root cause is the same — a workflow that has never been fully connected.

Upstream

For upstream land departments, the cost shows up in project timelines. Documents arrive, ownership gets calculated by hand, common title gets run twice because nobody has a shared record, and decisions wait. Capital that should go into drilling sits in process instead. Executives manage cost and risk by chasing status updates that are always a few days out of date.

Mineral Buyers

For mineral acquisition firms, the cost shows up in deals lost. Title takes weeks. Deals close in days. A competitor who gets to a closing-ready ownership answer faster doesn’t just work more efficiently — they close acquisitions you never get to compete on. And when contracted landmen move on, their work goes with them, so every return to a familiar county starts from scratch.

None of this is inevitable. It’s the result of a workflow that has never been fully connected — until now.

Two platforms. One workflow that didn't exist before.

Enverus has the largest courthouse document network in oil and gas and the operational context where drilling and acquisition decisions get made. Tracts has the best ownership interpretation engine in the market. Combined, you get one connected land workflow — courthouse to closing decision — that isn't offered anywhere else.

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Identify opportunities

Enverus

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Run title

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Interpret ownership

Tracts

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Drill and acquire

Enverus

Why it's different. Three things no other solution offers together.

From Courthouse to closing decision. Automated.

Every stage of the land workflow connected in one place — the only solution in the market that covers everything.

Your title work compounds. Your competitors' doesn't.

Prior interpretations surface automatically on every new project. Your team never runs the same title twice.

Your competitors are still at the courthouse. You're pricing the deal.

Pre-curated Permian county title datasets and interpretations — available before any courthouse work begins.

See What Happens When Your Land Workflow Connects

Running title on a new acreage block

  • A landman receives a courthouse document and reads 1,700 words in full. Ownership interest gets calculated by hand in Excel. Someone checks whether common title was already run on adjacent acreage — nobody has a reliable answer — so they run it again to be safe. The project waits another week.
  • TitleNotes™ distills the document to the ~40 words that matter. Zero-Math calculates ownership interest the moment the interpretation is entered. The Common Title Finder confirms adjacent acreage was already interpreted six months ago on a different project. The team moves to the acquisition decision the same day.

Evaluating a new Permian county target

  • A mineral buyer identifies a new county opportunity. Landmen get contracted, courthouse runs begin, and interpretation starts from scratch. Three weeks later title is partially complete. A better-capitalized competitor closed the same deal two weeks ago.
  • County Interpretations deliver near-complete title for the target county before the team pulls a single document. Ownership math runs automatically. The firm evaluates, prices, and moves on the opportunity while competitors are still at the courthouse.

What happens when a contractor moves on

  • A contracted landman finishes a project and moves to their next engagement. Their interpretations live in personal files. Six months later the same firm returns to the same county and restarts the courthouse process from zero — paying for work they already funded once.
  • Every interpretation the contractor entered went into the firm's Document Interpretation Library the moment it was saved. It belongs to the organization permanently. When the next project in that county starts, that work is already there.

Knowing where everything stands without asking anyone

  • A VP of Land asks where three active projects stand. A mineral acquisition lead needs to know the status of two live deals before a call in an hour. Both get the same answer — someone has to email the team, wait, compile responses, and send a summary that's already partially out of date by the time it arrives.
  • 10 dynamic reports generate automatically from live interpretations as the team works. Project status, cost-per-document, and team productivity are current at all times — across active drilling projects and live acquisition deals alike. The answer exists without anyone producing it.

Common questions about land title automation.

What is oil and gas land title automation?

Oil and gas land title automation is the use of software to replace the manual work involved in running title — calculating ownership interests, interpreting courthouse documents, and tracking chain of title. Platforms like Tracts eliminate the spreadsheet-based math and duplicate courthouse runs that slow land departments down and introduce royalty errors.

With a manual workflow, title on a new acreage block typically takes weeks. Enverus + Tracts cuts that timeline by up to 75% — combining automated ownership calculations, pre-interpreted courthouse documents, and a searchable interpretation library that surfaces prior work automatically on every new project.

Traditional land software stores and organizes data. Title automation eliminates the manual work that produces that data in the first place — the calculations, the duplicate courthouse runs, the hand-built spreadsheets. Tracts automates ownership math entirely and builds a compounding interpretation library that gets faster with every project your team completes.

Tracts connects directly to Enverus Courthouse, so courthouse documents flow into the platform without manual sourcing. Ownership outputs connect back to Enverus PRISM® and DRILLINGINFO® where drilling and acquisition decisions get made. The result is one continuous workflow rather than three systems your team has to bridge manually.

Royalty defects occur when payments are made to the wrong owner or at the wrong amount — typically because ownership math was calculated manually and contained errors. The industry loses approximately $5B annually to royalty defects. Tracts eliminates the problem at the source with Zero-Math calculations that automate all ownership interest math and update instantly when anything changes in the chain of title.

Not realistically. Connecting courthouse documents to ownership interpretation to operational decisions requires chaining hundreds of instruments with ownership math that updates continuously. And no internal build gives you access to County Arrays and County Interpretations — those only exist because Enverus courthouse data powers them.

No. The Tracts platform works for any geography and any land workflow. Permian-focused operators and mineral buyers have access to additional capabilities — County Arrays and County Interpretations — that deliver pre-curated county title data before any courthouse work begins. Those products are Permian-specific, but the core platform is not.

Ready to connect your land workflow?

We'll walk you through the connected workflow against your current title process — whether you're running an operator land department or a mineral acquisition program.

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