Sign-in/Breakfast 7:30AM – 8:45AM

Shooting 9:00AM – 11:00am

Lunch/Raffffle 11:30AM – 1:00PM

FROM:                              Brandon Durrett, President Emeritus

TO:                                   SAAPL Members and other Interested Persons 

RE:                                    SAAPL 35th Annual Mid-Winter Seminar

The SAN ANTONIO ASSOCIATION OF PROFESSIONAL LANDMEN is pleased to announce and invite  you  to  attend  our  35th Annual  Mid-Winter  Seminar. It  will  be  held  on  Tuesday, January 23, 2024, at The San Antonio Petroleum Club. Webcast via Zoom will be available for those who would like to attend remotely.

We invite landmen, attorneys, division order analysts, lease analysts, paralegals, and others involved in land work to come and learn about current issues, network with land professionals in your area, and earn some very affordable continuing education credits.

The list of speakers and topics is attached. This will be an excellent seminar and we hope you will choose  to  attend.  Please  click on the link below to register at  your  earliest  opportunity.  Should you have any questions, please email Brandon Durrett at bdurrett@jw.com.

FEES:                     SAAPL Member:         $50

                                Non-Member:             $60

Fee includes lunch and continental breakfast at The Petroleum Club. We anticipate the seminar will be certified for the following credits: 6CPL/RLP (1 ethics) and 6 MCLE (1 ethics)

7:30 – 8:00   Reception and Continental Breakfast

8:00 – 8:15   Opening Remarks

8:15 – 9:15   Charles Hosey, Frost Bank

Oil Industry’s Faustian Bargain: Texas Produced Water Ownership and the Future of Correlative Rights

9:20 – 10:20  Brandon Durrett, Jackson Walker, LLP

Case Law Update

10:20 – 10:30   Break

10:30 – 11:30    Blake Waggoner, Uhl, Fitzsimons, Burton, Wolff & Rangel, PLLC

Tools of the Trade: Recent Trends in Continuous Development Clauses

11:30 – 11:40    Lunch Service

11:40 – 12:40    Lunch Presentation: Matthew Badders and Sean Caporaletti, Drought, Drought & Bobbitt, LLP

Finding the Proper Decision-Maker When Transacting with a Fiduciary

12:45 – 1:45   Edmond R. McCarthy, Jr., McCarthy & McCarthy, LLC

Competing Surface Uses, Dominant Estates, and the Accommodation Doctrine
1:50 – 2:50        Jimmy Wright, J Dub Enterprises

Ethical Negotiations: Ethical Behavior In and Around Oil and Gas Asset Acquisition and Management

Our speaker for the November 2023 meeting is Clay Pollard, of Espuela Energy, LLC.

Clay Pollard, a Midland-native living in Austin, is a landman with broad experience in the Gulf Coast and the Permian Basin. He started his career in 1983 in San Antonio with Clayton W. Williams, Jr. after graduating from Texas A&M University with a degree in Agricultural Economics and a Masters in Land and Real Estate. 

His first role was that of an Oil Scout and later a company landman. Clay spent most of his career with Clayton Williams (later Clayton Williams Energy, Inc.) and was involved with many aspects of landwork from field title and leasing , ultimately managing over 150 contract landmen, 11 rigs, and developing an 85,000 acre farm-in from Chesapeake. He was responsible for constructing 270 miles of pipeline ROW needed to enable CWEI to produce and hold the acreage in Reeves County. He had to handle enormous land challenges in a very short time period. Later, Clay was over the Giddings Field during the Eagle Ford boom, and was instrumental in the lease acquisition of 158,000 contiguous acres in the Austin Chalk and Eagle Ford. Pollard then was key in the divestiture of that acreage in 2017. The Giddings acreage sold for $400 million in late 2016, making CWEI became a prime takeover candidate, resulting in a $3.2 billion sale to Noble in 2017. Most of that value came from the Reeves County leasehold and pipeline assets. Amazingly Claytie’s stock went from $7 to $144 per share in the same year and was sold at $139 per share. Clay was an integral part of one of the most amazing stories in the oil patch.

In 2018 Clay and a partner, Robert Canon, formed Espuela Energy, LLC. Espuela is a non-operating company that has put together large holdings in Reeves and Loving counties that are currently being developed in the Wolfcamp formation.

SPEAKER TBD

WHEN: Monday, September 25, 2023

4:00 pm - 7:00 pm

WHERE: The Quarry (map)

COST: $25 Members / $30 Non-Members

Our speaker for the September 2023 meeting is

Ben Holliday, of Holliday Energy Law Group.

Following Ben's presentation, we will host a happy hour from 5 PM to 7 PM.

More details to follow.

REGISTATION OPENS AT 7:30AM

SHOTGUN START AT 8:30 AM

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The SAN ANTONIO ASSOCIATION OF PROFESSIONAL LANDMEN is pleased to announce and invite you to attend our 34th Annual Mid-Winter Seminar. It will be held on Tuesday, January 24, 2023, at The San Antonio Petroleum Club. Webcast via Zoom will be available for those who would like to attend remotely.

We invite landmen, attorneys, division order analysts, lease analysts, paralegals, and others involved in land work to come and learn about current issues, network with land professionals in your area, and earn some very affordable continuing education credits.

The list of speakers and topics is attached. This will be an excellent seminar and we hope you will choose to attend. Please click on the link below to register at your earliest opportunity. Should you have any questions, please email Brandon Durrett at bdurrett@jw.com.

 FEES:

SAAPL Member:         $50

 Non-Member:              $60

 Fee includes lunch and continental breakfast at The Petroleum Club. We anticipate the seminar will be certified for the following credits: 6 CPL/RLP (1 ethics) and 6 MCLE (1 ethics).

7:30 am - 8:00 am            Registration and Continental Breakfast

 8:00 am - 8:15 am            Opening Remarks

8:15 am - 9:15 am            Mari Haley, Attorney at Law

Ethical Use of Landmen and Paralegals in an Oil and Gas Law Practice

9:20 am - 10:20 am          Brandon Durrett, Jackson Walker, LLP

 Case Law Update

10:20 am - 10:30 am        Break

10:30 am - 11:30 am        Kathryn Chandler

Top Ten Ways to be Your Title Attorney’s Favorite Landman

11:30 am - 11:40 am        Lunch Service

11:40 am - 12:40 pm        Lunch Presentation:

 Clay Person, Person, Mohrer, Morales, Boddy, Garcia, Gutierrez, PLLC

and

John Oliveros, Ross Molina Oliveros, P.C.

Pipeline Condemnation: Case Law from the Landowner’s and Company’s Perspectives

12:45 pm - 1:45 pm          Corey Weymeyer, Santoyo Wehmeyer P.C.

Non-Operators’ and Mineral Owners’ Rights to Information from Operators

1:50 – 2:50                    Michael S. Browning, Attorney at Law

 Homesteads, Life Estates, and the Open Mine Doctrine in Oil, Gas and Mineral Law                           

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This year we are changing up the Christmas event. Please join us at the Quarry Golf Club for some Continuing Education and a Holiday Happy Hour

SPEAKER TBD

Reagan M. Marble to present 2022 Case Law Update

Reagan Marble is a partner with Jackson Walker LLC, in San Antonio, Texas. Reagan’s diverse energy practice focuses on representation of large land and mineral owners, high net worth families, and investors in complex conventional and renewable energy litigation and transactions in both Texas and New Mexico. Specifically, his energy litigation practice ranges from multimillion dollar title disputes in the Eagle Ford Shale and Permian Basin to renewable contract disputes along the Gulf Coast. His energy transaction practice includes the drafting and negotiation of agreements affecting all aspects of upstream oil and gas exploration and production including oil and gas leases, surface use agreements, purchase and sale agreements, farmouts, and joint operating agreements. Reagan is well known for helping Texas and New Mexico landowners and companies develop, produce, sell, or dispose of their non-traditional natural resources including water, sand, sun, and wind. Reagan received his undergraduate degree from Baylor University and his law degree from Texas Tech University. A national award-winning advocate, Reagan takes pride in being a professional and ethical advocate in the courtroom and in the boardroom.

Speaker: F. Parks Brown

Topic: Completing (and Cooperative) Use of Property for Renewable Energy and Mineral Development

Parks Brown is a partner with Uhl, Fitzsimons, Burton, Wolff & Rangel, PLLC, in San Antonio, Texas. He is Board Certified by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization in Oil, Gas and Mineral Law. He assists landowners, mineral owners and fiduciaries in the negotiation and maintenance of oil and gas leases, solar leases, wind leases, data center agreements, transmission line easements, pipeline easements, surface use agreements and related land use contracts. His practice also includes farm and ranch transactions, groundwater development projects, mining operations, mitigation banking, conservation easements and the representation of non-profit land trusts. Parks worked for six years as a petroleum landman in the Rocky Mountain region, negotiating leases and performing mineral title research for oil and gas companies

Shooting trap is free from 5-7pm for members. Bring your own shotgun and ammo, or buy ammo from the gun club. 7.5, 8 or 9 shot only. Bring your own eye and ear protection. After the shoot, there will be BBQ and Beers. No drinking before or while shooting.

Bring your check for $65 for your membership renewal, or pay online here  https://www.saapl.org/renewals

If you do not want to shoot, come out and enjoy the BBQ and beer under the pavilion!

BENEFITING ANY BABY CAN SAN ANTONIO

Many Thanks to our Title Sponsor: Santoyo Wehmeyer P.C.

FRIDAY: May 20, 2022 – HYATT HILL COUNTRY GOLF CLUB

8:30 A.M. Shotgun Start

REGISTRATION FORM

Monday May 9, 2022 at the San Antonio Petroleum Club

Our speaker this month is Laura Falco, J.D. She will be presenting on Wind Severances!

This months speaker is AAPL President James “Jim” Devlin, CPL

https://www.landman.org/about/governance/leadership/jim-t-delvin-cpl

SOUTH TEXAS L&L CLAYS SHOOT 2022

Friday, April 1, 2022 7:30am – 1:00pm

Sign-in/Breakfast 7:30-8:45

Shooting 9-11am

Lunch/Raffle 11:30-1

The 2022 South Texas L&L Clays Shoot will be held at 9:00 AM on Friday, April 1, 2022, at the picturesque Joshua Creek Ranch in Boerne, Texas. This year’s event will benefit the Children's Bereavement Center of South Texas, located in San Antonio, Texas. The Children's Bereavement Center is dedicated to fostering healing and transformation for grieving children and youth, their families and the community following the loss of a parent.

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WHERE: San Antonio Petroleum Club (map)
COST: $25 Members / $30 Non-Members

We are excited to announce that our speaker for this month's luncheon is Mr. Ben Holliday of the Holliday ENERGY Law Group. Ben will be presenting on "Retained Acreage and Proration Units".

 A graduate of Texas A&M University and St. Mary’s University School of Law, Ben began his career as field landman leasing in South Texas and along the Gulf Coast. Shortly thereafter, he moved in-house with David H. Arrington Oil & Gas as a member of the Barnett Shale asset team. Since 2010, Ben has focused on representing operators with a focus on regulatory and title examination. Ben is the President of Holliday Energy Law Group and Massive Minerals Management, is Board Certified in Oil, Gas, and Mineral Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, is the current South Texas Regional Director for AAPL, and a Past President of the San Antonio Association of Professional Landmen.

WHERE: San Antonio Petroleum Club (map)
COST: $25 Members / $30 Non-Members

We are excited to announce that our speaker for this month's luncheon is Mr. Cache Deupree, Real Estate Manager at Solar Proponent, LLC.

Cache has over 20 years of land and mineral acquisition in the energy industry, contributing to over 1 GW of utility scale wind and solar projects in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas. Whether working with landowners on an individual basis, or managing a crew of field landmen, Cache has left his footprint in the renewable space. A proud member of the Choctaw Nation, Cache has a BA in English from the University of Oklahoma, and Geographic Information Systems certification from University of California, Davis.

The SAN ANTONIO ASSOCIATION OF PROFESSIONAL LANDMEN is pleased to announce and invite you to attend our 33nd Annual Mid-Winter Seminar. It will be held on Friday, January 218, 2022 at the San Antonio Petroleum Club.

We invite landmen, attorneys, division order analysts, lease analysts, paralegals, and others involved in land work to attend and learn about current issues and earn 6 continuing education credits, including 2 ethics credit. The list of speakers and topics as well as Registration Form is below.

7:30 am - 8:00 am Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:00 am - 8:15 am Opening Remarks

8:15 am - 9:15 am Lori Davlin, General Counsel, Kuiper Law Firm, PLLC
Lying Under Oath: Ethical Implications for Lawyers and Land Professionals

9:20 am - 10:20 am Brandon Durrett, Partner, Dykema Gossett, PLLC
Case Law Update

10:20 am - 10:30 am Break

10:30 am - 11:30 am Terry Cross, Partner, McClure & Cross LLC
Acquiring Aging Oil & Gas Assets - Due Diligence Issues for “Old Production”

11:30 am - 11:40 am Lunch service

11:40 am - 12:40 pm Lunch Presentation: Peter Hosey, Partner, Jackson Walker, LLP
Earth, Wind and Solar: Title Issues in Renewable Energy Resources

12:45 pm - 1:45 pm Laura Burney, Attorney, Law Offices of Laura Burney and Professor Emeritus oi
Oil and Gas Law at St. Mary’s University School of Law
The Texas Supreme Court’s Evolving Mineral Deed Jurisprudence in the Shale
Era: The Implications of Wenske v. Ealy.

1:50 pm - 2:50 pm George Shires, Partner, Cotton Bledsoe Tighe & Dawson, PC
Conflicts of Interests for Oil & Gas Land and Legal Professionals

Our Annual Holiday Luncheon will be Monday December 13, 2021!

Our speaker will be Reagan Marble of Jackson Walker LLP . He will be presenting “Legal and Ethical Checklist for Mineral Buyers and Lease Brokers”

SAN ANTONIO PETROLEUM CLUB
8620 North New Braunfels Avenue

San Antonio, TX, 78217United States (map)

Members - $25; Non-Members - $30

Monday, November 8, 2021

• 11:30 AM 1:00 PM

“Leveraging M.I.P.A. in a Mature Texas Horizontal Play” presented by
Nathan Stephenson, Division Land Manager of EOG Resources, Inc.

SAN ANTONIO PETROLEUM CLUB
8620 North New Braunfels Avenue

San Antonio, TX, 78217United States (map)

Members - $25; Non-Members - $30

“An In-Depth Analysis of Texas Pooling Issues” presented by
Katy Wehmeyer, Attorney and Managing Shareholder of Santoyo Wehmeyer P.C.

SAN ANTONIO PETROLEUM CLUB
8620 North New Braunfels Avenue

San Antonio, TX, 78217United States (map)

Members - $25; Non-Members - $30

SAAPL will be hosting a member hour on April 22, 2021 from 5:00PM to 8:00PM. The event will be free to members. Select appetizers and adult/non-adult beverages will be provided.

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Topic: ALLOCATION WELLS - TWISTS AND TURNS

Time: Feb 8, 2021 12:00 PM Central Time (US and Canada)

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The SAN ANTONIO ASSOCIATION OF PROFESSIONAL LANDMEN is pleased to announce and invite you to attend our 32nd Annual Mid-Winter Seminar. It will be held on Thursday, January 21, 2021 via free virtual webinar.

We invite landmen, attorneys, division order analysts, lease analysts, paralegals, and others involved in land work to attend and learn about current issues and earn 7 continuing education credits, including 1 ethics credit. The list of speakers and topics is attached.

To register, please EMAIL your NAME, COMPANY, ADRESS, EMAIL and TELEPHONE # to Diane Staner at dstaner@dykema.com at your earliest opportunity. Again, this is a FREE webinar available to anyone regardless of SAAPL membership status, though we highly encourage you to become a member for free (this year only) on our website. Login and viewing instructions will be emailed to registrants prior to the webinar.

SAN ANTONIO ASSOCIATION OF PROFESSIONAL LANDMEN

32nd ANNUAL MID-WINTER SEMINAR

Thursday, January 21, 2021

7:30 – 8:00 Login and Opening Remarks

8:00 – 9:00 Katy Wehmeyer, Shareholder Santoyo Wehmeyer P.C.

Customizing the Oil and Gas Lease from the Lessee’s Perspective

9:00 – 10:00 Prof. Keith B. Hall, LSU Law Center

Communication with Opposing Counsel and Landowners

10:00 – 10:30 Break

10:30 – 11:30 Brandon Durrett, Partner Dykema Gossett, P.L.L.C.

Case Law Update

11:30 – 12:30 Benjamin Holliday, Director Holliday Energy Law Group

Gas Flaring

12:30 – 1:30 Ryan Lammert, Attorney Uhl Fitzsimmons, P.L.L.C.

RRC of Texas: Non-Contractual Well Plugging and Surface Remediation Requirements

1:30 – 2:00 Break

2:00 – 3:00 David Clay, Partner CRA Advisors, LLC Martin McReynolds, Partner, McReynolds & Tye, P.C.

Mineral Property Ad Valorem

Appraisal and Taxation

3:00 – 4:00 Jon Ray, Attorney Law Offices of Jon R. Ray, PLLC

EVENT REGISTRATION FORM