About OGLandman
Free tools for the people who actually buy minerals
OGLandman is an oil & gas technology company. We publish free research tools for independent landmen and small acquisition teams: what got filed, where the records are, and who the operator became. Public data, made usable.
What OGLandman is
OGLandman is an oil & gas technology company. We build free research tools for the independent landmen and small teams who buy and lease mineral, royalty, and working interests.
We make three of them. The TRRC Permit Tracker publishes every drilling permit filed with the Texas Railroad Commission, refreshed each morning and searchable by county, operator, and date. The County Records Directory maps where each oil-producing county actually keeps its deed, lease, and mineral records: the clerk's office, the online portals that hold the images, who runs the title plant, and how far back each index runs. The M&A Directory is an open database of more than 3,300 oil & gas corporate transactions, for tracing an operator back through its acquisitions.
All three are free, and they stay free. They exist because the work is better when the basic intelligence isn't behind a five-figure enterprise contract.
Why it exists
Look at what's available to a landman today and you find two extremes. On one side, generic CRMs (Salesforce, HubSpot, whatever the office already pays for) built for software demos and quarterly sales quotas, then bent sideways to track owners and tracts. On the other, enterprise land and mineral platforms like Enverus and Quorum, priced and built for majors and large operators, with implementation cycles to match.
Neither was made for the person running an acquisition desk with four to twenty people. So the work spills into spreadsheets: one tab for the call list, another for the pipeline, a third for who signed. Follow-ups slip. Two landmen call the same owner. The PSA gets re-typed by hand and the acreage comes out wrong.
OGLandman exists to close part of that gap. Not by selling another platform, but by publishing the public-record answers both extremes charge for or bury: what got filed in Texas this morning, where a given county actually keeps its records, and who an operator became after it was bought.
What it makes
The TRRC Permit Tracker pulls the drilling permits filed with the Texas Railroad Commission. We run the ingest once each morning and re-check the previous two weeks, because filings and status changes land late. Filter by county, operator, or lease name, and export to CSV. Opening the search asks for an email; the rest of the site asks for nothing.
The County Records Directory answers the question that costs a landman the most time on an unfamiliar county: where is the paper. For each published county we verify the clerk's office and its official page, the online sources that actually carry the index and the images, the coverage years for each, whether access is free, registration-walled, or paid, and whether a local title plant exists. Every county carries the date we last checked it.
The M&A Directory is an open, free database of more than 3,300 oil & gas corporate transactions and operator lineage, useful for tracing who owns what after a string of acquisitions, with no signup wall.
Who it serves
We build for independent landmen and small mineral-acquisition teams (roughly four to twenty people) buying and leasing mineral, royalty, and working interests. Solo operators, small mineral companies, family offices with energy positions, and PE-backed acquisition desks all run the same core job: find owners, work them, and get to a signed PSA.
We treat these people as peers, not as users to be onboarded. The tools exist because the work demands them, and they're free because a one-person shop and a twenty-person desk both need the same basic answers: what was filed, where the records are, and who the operator became.
If you're a major or a large operator that needs deep title, GIS, and division-of-interest management at enterprise scale, the heavyweight platforms are genuinely better suited to you. We're built for the desk that wants the owner book, the pipeline, and the documents in one place instead of three spreadsheets.
What it stands for
We make claims we can back up. No hype adjectives, no buzzwords, specific numbers over superlatives, and we say plainly what a tool does and doesn't do. When we found the homepage claiming permits appear the morning they're filed, we changed it: the feed is pulled once each morning, and that's what it now says.
We show our work. Every county in the records directory carries the date we last verified it and a link to the official source, so you can check us. Where we don't have something (a coverage year, a fee, an index start), it reads as unknown rather than being guessed at.
We don't claim certifications we don't hold, and we don't sell or share the email addresses the permit search and the county digests collect. The security page lays out how we handle data in detail.
The honest take
These are research tools, not a system of record. They tell you what was filed, where the paper lives, and who an operator became; they do not run your pipeline, hold your owner list, generate documents, or place calls. If your work is deep title (runsheets, chain-of-title, curative, division-of-interest accounting) or you're a major needing enterprise GIS and land administration at scale, platforms like Enverus, Quorum, or Tracts are built for exactly that and we're not competing with them. Coverage is honest about its edges too: permits are Texas TRRC only, and the records directory covers the oil-producing counties we've verified so far, not all 254. If that's not enough for the job in front of you, we'd rather tell you up front.
Questions
What is OGLandman?
OGLandman is an oil & gas technology company that builds free research tools for mineral acquisition: the TRRC Permit Tracker (every Texas drilling permit, refreshed daily), the County Records Directory (where each county keeps its deed, lease, and mineral records), and the M&A Directory (more than 3,300 oil & gas corporate transactions and operator lineage).
What tools does OGLandman make?
Three. The TRRC Permit Tracker: every drilling permit filed with the Texas Railroad Commission, refreshed each morning, searchable by county, operator, and date, with CSV export. The County Records Directory: the clerk's office, online portals, coverage years, and title-plant status for each published oil-producing county. And the M&A Directory: an open database of 3,300+ oil & gas transactions for tracing operator lineage.
Who is OGLandman for?
Independent landmen and small mineral-acquisition teams of roughly four to twenty people: solo operators, small mineral companies, family offices, and PE-backed acquisition desks buying and leasing mineral, royalty, and working interests. It's built for peers in the business, not for enterprise majors or consumer use.
Do the tools cost anything?
No. All three are free. The permit search asks for an email address to open it; the county records directory and the M&A directory ask for nothing at all. There is no account to create, no card, and no paid tier.
What does OGLandman do with my data?
If you give us an email to open the permit search or to receive a county's weekly digest, we use it for that and nothing else. We don't sell or share it. You can unsubscribe from any digest email. OGLandman follows industry-standard security practices but does not claim a named third-party certification it doesn't hold; the security page describes our data-handling practices in detail.
How is OGLandman different from Enverus, Quorum, or a generic CRM?
Those are enterprise land, title, and data platforms built and priced for majors and large operators, or general-purpose sales software bent into the mineral job. OGLandman isn't competing with them. It publishes the specific public-record answers an independent landman needs day to day, at no cost: what was filed in Texas, where a county's records live, and who an operator became.
Built for how landmen actually work
Every tool on this site is free: the daily Texas permit feed, the county records directory, and the M&A archive. No enterprise contract required.