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Records in view
The examples below are the kind of internal history an operator often owns. They aren't a demand list.
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Lease files and title curative
Drafts, amendments, ratifications, and the chain of who asked for a curative item and how it was cleared.
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Approval chains
The path a recommendation takes through land, engineering, and management, including the exceptions.
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AFE and JIB history
How a proposal was estimated, approved, billed, questioned, and closed.
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Revenue and suspense
Why a decimal was held, who released it, and how the deck was corrected.
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Engineering decision history
The recommendation, the constraint, and what production did afterward.
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The systems that hold that work
Owner, landowner, and vendor conversations the company handled, including tickets and follow-ups in a support desk such as Zendesk or Freshdesk. Also email threads, working spreadsheets, iLandman notes the company entered, GIS layers and lease maps the company drew, shared-file drafts, project updates, team discussions, and the accounting entries its own staff posted. A licensed base map under those layers is separate. These are examples of where the history lives, not a list of connected products, and not every ticket or map is in scope.
Review the rights before any of it's in scope
- Joint-operating agreements and non-operated interests can limit what an operator may license, even when the file sits on the company's server.
- Vendor contracts and partner confidentiality clauses are read before a category is included.
- Field headcount isn't the qualifying count, onshore or offshore. Land, engineering, accounting, and production administration are the documented desk workflows. A well test is in view only when the company owns it and is permitted to include it.
Who the work belongs to
The relevant people are landmen, engineers, accountants, production administrators, and the staff who keep the files. Drilling, plant, pipeline, offshore, and right-of-way coordinators count when they document the work at a desk. Rig crews, offshore crews, and pumpers are a separate number.
Drilling and completion reports, well tests the company owns, production reviews, and the plant, pipeline, offshore, and right-of-way desks sit with the other operating work. They don't replace the lease and land files above. See those desks
Also in view