Automated lease management
Problem
Oil and gas leases set conditions that can turn into a cost or a loss of rights to some or all of the leased acreage if they're missed. Shut-in royalties, minimum royalties, continuous operations, and cessation of production are examples, and a single lease can carry many obligations at once, sometimes with more than one version of the same clause. Production changes can trigger a deadline on one or more leases, with each lease dictating its own terms for what's owed and when. A land team that manages many leases often tracks this manually. With hundreds of wells and leases, the connections multiply faster than anyone can follow. Managing it is a costly effort with highly consequential implications, and doing it by hand can lead to human error or missed deadlines if a status change isn't linked to the clause it triggers in time.
Solution
A land administrator uploads a lease document, and an AI agent extracts the key terms and clauses that carry a financial or legal impact. Once reviewed, the lease goes active. Some provisions, like an extension option, a Pugh clause, or a minimum royalty, run off the lease's own known dates, the lease anniversary or the primary term end, so their obligations and deadlines exist on the calendar as soon as the lease is active. Others, like a shut-in royalty, only exist once a specific event happens, such as a well going shut-in, and a single event can start more than one clock if the lease carries more than one shut-in provision. When every well on a lease has been shut in, that can also start a cessation of production obligation with its own deadline. Each obligation moves through open, at risk, missed, or satisfied independently, with notifications going out to the relevant people as a deadline approaches. A dashboard, a map, and a calendar bring every lease, well, and deadline into one place.
At a glance
Vertical
Oil & Gas
Energy
Used By
Operations
Finance
Legal & Compliance
Building Blocks
Agents
Custom Applications
Logic Blocks
Dashboards
Calendars
Workflow
Building Blocks
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Agents
Reads an uploaded lease document and extracts the key terms and clauses that carry a financial or legal impact.
Custom Applications
Holds the lease, well, and provision definitions along with each obligation and its status.
Logic Blocks
Creates obligations from a lease's known dates and from events like a well shutting in, including a cessation of production obligation when every well on a lease is shut in.
Dashboards
Shows every lease with its wells and obligations by status, a map of well and lease status, and a running feed of events.
Calendars
Shows every deadline across every lease and provision type in one place.
Workflow
Moves each obligation through open, at risk, missed, or satisfied automatically as its clock runs, and sends an alert to the relevant people as a deadline approaches.