Title & Curative for Oil & Gas, Solar, & Wind
Clean title, examined and cured. The backbone of every deal.
- Title examination
- Title curative requirements
- Title opinions
- Abstracts
- Drill-site run sheets
- Obtaining certified copies
Oklahoma-based • Serving the region
Know your land.
Lease with confidence.
McCracken Land Services delivers thorough title, ownership research, leasing, and due diligence work for oil & gas and renewables, with the accuracy and follow-through that keep projects moving.
20+
Service capabilities
Since 2004
In the land business
Oil, Gas
& Renewables Industries served
& Renewables Industries served
Direct
You work with the landman, not a queue
25
Free landman tools & references
Who we are
A focused landman practice, built on doing the work right.
McCracken Land Services is an independent land services firm led by landman Michael McCracken. We handle the research, title, and field work that energy projects run on. This is detail work, the kind where one missed instrument or a bad chain of title costs real money. Every job is handled personally, so you get experienced attention from start to finish.
What we do
Full-service land work, end to end.
From the courthouse to the map, McCracken Land Services covers the full lifecycle of land, title, and mineral work.
Ownership Research & Reports
Know exactly who owns what, and how they came to own it.
- Mineral ownership research & reports
- Surface ownership research & reports
- Royalty ownership
- Leasehold & working interest research
- Ancestry & family lineage (heirship)
Leasing, ROW & Acquisition
Securing the rights that get projects off the ground.
- Lease check & leasing
- Rights-of-way & easements
- Surface & ROW for renewables
- Acquisition support
- Licensed ROW Agent in Texas
Due Diligence & Operational Support
The research and record work that de-risks a transaction.
- Due diligence
- Well activity research
- Corporation & Railroad Commission filings
- County & district clerk record research
- Instrument & document retrieval
- Property inventory
GIS & Mapping
Turning records into a clear picture of the ground.
- GIS mapping
- Deed plotting
- Tract & ownership mapping
Renewables Land Services
Land and title support for wind and solar development.
- Wind & solar site work
- Surface & ROW
- Title & ownership research
- Notary services
Websites, Brand & Logo
Oil and gas websites and brand work, built by McCracken Labs.
- Website design & build
- Brand identity & guidelines
- Logo design
- Reference guides branded in your company's identity
Landman Tools
A landman toolkit, all in one place.
A growing library of tools and field references, kept in one place. I built these for my own work and keep them free, because the next landman should not have to hunt the same things across a dozen sites. Browser tools that run without uploading anything, state-by-state guides and charts, calculators, and quick references, and I add to it often.
The full library
25 tools and references, and growing.
A browser-based deed formatter and unit converter, intestate succession guides and charts, spacing and pooling references, lease and title references, cheat sheets, and a stratigraphic chart library. Organized by state, free to use, and added to often.
Maps & data
Shapefiles and base maps, without the hunt.
Half the work in mapping is just finding the data. I track down the shapefiles a project needs and build clean base maps a company can actually work from. If you have spent a week hunting down layers and building your base maps, there is a good chance I can do it in a day.
County Parcel Shapefiles
Parcel boundaries and ownership from county assessor and GIS offices, pulled for the county you are working.
Texas Railroad Commission Data
Surveys and abstracts, well locations, units, and pipelines from the Railroad Commission's GIS data.
Oklahoma STR & PLSS Grids
Section, township, and range grids for Oklahoma, ready to drop straight into your map.
Well Locations
Surface and bottomhole well points from the state regulators across Oklahoma, Texas, and the surrounding states.
Federal, Tribal & Surface Management
BLM surface management, federal and tribal lands, and surface ownership layers where they are published.
Base Layers
Roads, hydrology, county lines, aerial imagery, floodplain, and soils to round out a working map.
Before you spend too much time searching for shapefiles, ask me first.
There is a good chance I already know where it lives, or can have it to you faster than a data vendor. I also build custom base maps for companies: project and area-of-interest maps, ownership plats, and lease maps, set up the way your team likes to work.
How we work
Managed start to finish, built to scale.
Every project is managed closely. It gets scoped up front, tracked as it moves, and delivered on a timeline you can plan around. You work with one point of contact who knows the job and keeps you posted, so there is no chasing for status and no surprise at the deadline.
Hands-on project management
Clear scope, steady communication, and organized, well-documented work, whether it is a single tract or an ongoing assignment. One point of contact from kickoff to close.
Capacity for large projects
When a project calls for more boots on the ground, McCracken Land Services teams up with Stephens Land Services, a trusted relationship going back to 2008, to scale up fast without giving up quality or slipping deadlines.
Industries
Where the work applies.
Oil & Gas
Drill-site run sheets, mineral and leasehold research, curative, and OCC/RRC filings that keep operators and investors on solid legal ground.
Renewables
Surface leasing, right-of-way, and clean title for wind and solar projects, where a single clouded tract can stall an entire array.
Title & Abstract
Surface ownership research, abstracts, heirship, and document retrieval for operators, investors, and title professionals.
Rooted in the land.
Driven by the details.
From the courthouse steps to the section corner, McCracken Land Services does the groundwork that lets energy projects move forward with confidence.
Registered Professional Landman, AAPL member
About
Meet the landman behind the work.
Michael McCracken has worked in the land business since 2004. He started McCracken Land Services so brokers and clients could work directly with an experienced landman instead of being handed down the line to whoever happens to be free.
His experience covers title examination and curative, mineral and surface ownership research, leasing and right of way, due diligence, courthouse and Corporation Commission research, and GIS mapping and deed plotting. If it touches land, title, or minerals, he has done it.
The approach is simple. Do the work right, and get it back when you said you would. Brokers and clients keep coming back because the details get handled and nothing slips through.
Work with McCrackenWhy McCracken
What you can count on.
Senior-level attention
Your work is handled personally from start to finish, never passed down a chain.
Accuracy first
Thorough examination and clean documentation, because the details are the job.
Full-cycle capability
Title, research, leasing, due diligence, and mapping under one roof.
Responsive & on time
Clear communication and deadlines you can build a schedule around.
Now hiring
Looking for landman work?
I work with Stephens Land Services and have relationships with multiple other brokers and land companies that are always looking for good landmen. Send your resume and I will get it in front of the right people when something fits. If you want to know what makes a resume stand out, here is what I look for.
Get in touch
Let's talk about your project.
Tell me a little about the tract, the deal, or the research you need, and I'll get back to you, usually within one business day. Send a message below and it comes straight to my inbox.
- Service area Oklahoma & surrounding states
- Response time Within one business day
- Your privacy Your message goes only to me, and it is never shared or listed publicly.