This is a similar sentiment to “The Shitco Suck” which was published on November 24, 2021 Read it here Frustrating and Dangerous One of the most frustrating aspects of working with, or for, a public company is dealing with the entrenched small minded middle managers. These are the people who enjoy playing politics in the …
Landman Log – January 26 – Small Minded Middle Managers Read More »
This post was in an old drafts folder, and I don’t think there has ever been a better time to find it… LandmanLife Where the fuck are we going? As a civilization, a society, an industry, and as landmen…I can’t answer that question. I don’t have the answer. What I can say, is that we …
Talking About Health We spend more time talking about “how important it is to take care of yourself” than we do actually taking care of ourselves. People are announcing New Years resolutions about going to the gym, and other people are trying to “educate” those people about how to behave in the gym. Working out …
With All the Time in the World, How Important is Health? Read More »
You probably think this post is going to be about jackass landowners and their attorneys, or the overbearing micromanagement from the corporate headquarters…or maybe that dead cow on the lease road. Those are all part of the job. We signed up for it. The landman’s worst enemy is complacency. All of us tend to get …
The Roadtrip to Nowhere Goes Digital This post started as a rant about how a whole new generation of landmen, or maybe it’s just half a generation…I’m not sure, are going to be starting their careers on “the digital roadtrip to nowhere.” For any of you that have been following along over the past 12 …
This was an email we got earlier this week. We’ve reached out to the author to ask about how they’d like it to be posted but have not gotten a response, so here it is in its original form (with some images added in). I think all of us have felt like this at one …
A couple of weeks ago arguments started that are still weighing on our community. People took sides. Things got heated, and then the personal attacks started. Like a set of dominos, almost all of us got dragged into this somehow. The dominos 10 pieces away might not matter to you, but they kept falling. Disagreements …
This was originally posted on LandmanLife.com on June 11, 2014 back when I was a younger, dumber landman. Much like Nostradamus my words are still true today… “What do you do?” I’m sure almost any landman reading this has experienced this situation. Someone asks what you do for a living. What do you say? “I …
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Taking a look at the OVV 2Q20 Conference Call Slides with a breakdown of where the juicy bits are from Doug Shittles
COVID-19 has changed a lot in our world, especially in the oil & gas business. Forcing a reset of the market has pushed a lot of companies to the point of bankruptcy. How does social distancing and mask mandates affect Landmen, who’s careers are built on their ability to form relationships with landowners to get deals done? The Post Apocalyptic Landman is the first post from @Landmannery
