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With him co-creating the show, there's bound to be a level of candidness. It's certainly possible that oil landmen would've ...

Landmen are either company employees or independent contractors. Company landmen work in-house, while independent contractors focus on research, ownership identification, and negotiations.

Professional landmen determine ownership and title of surface and subsurface rights to negotiate leases with the land and mineral owners. These specialists coordinate field exploration to connect ...

There's actually an exemption in Texas so landmen aren't practicing law without a license, because there's a lot of contract review and things like that," Harrell said. "You're looking at a lot of ...