P2 Energy Solutions’ Tobin Data solution has added six parishes within the Tuscaloosa Marine Shale to its Lease Activity product, furthering P2’s commitment to providing the most accurate and current leasing information to upstream oil and gas companies. The Tuscaloosa Marine Shale (TMS), which stretches across central Louisiana...
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About the Abstract of All Original Texas Land Titles

05/20/2013
The Abstract Of All Original Texas Land Titles is a collection of eight volumes published by the Texas General Land Office in the early 1940's. These volumes contain all of the original land records granted or transferred within the State of Texas. The grants are sorted alphabetically by...
What Are Texas County Maps?
05/16/2013
The Texas General Land Office county map is an interpretation of the Original Texas Land Survey (OTLS) boundaries and bay tracts showing the boundaries of the original land grants of the State of Texas. In the late 1830’s the Texas General Land Office set out to collect all...
Come Visit With Us at ESRI PUG 2013!
04/19/2013
P2 is exhibiting at ESRI PUG in booth 406! Stop by and visit with and see how to understand your acreage position by formation. You will also see how: Tobin GIS Studio manages enterprise-wide survey and lease record data, We develop custom maps to your specifications, integrating either...
An Overview of the Lifecycle of an Oil and Gas Lease in the United States
03/26/2013
The United States is in the middle of the largest domestic oil and gas boom since the late 1800s, made possible by tremendous advances in drilling techniques and the process of hydraulic fracturing. At the center of all of this activity are lease agreements between a mineral rights...
Shale Revolution

03/06/2013
Shale is like the new kid on the block, it is full of promise, it is new, it is exciting, it has a new vocabulary and it is the future which may be positive or negative. Shale is an experiment in new technology. It is the product that...
Lease Data Collection Process
02/18/2013
Tobin has been a trusted map brand closely associated with the upstream oil and gas industry for more than 80 years. Over time the traditional map product (hard copy maps) as evolved into two core oil and gas lease map data products, the Digital Lease Activity Service (with...
Map Projections
02/05/2013
The earth, as we all know, is not flat, but is instead a sphere, or to be more specific, it is an oblate spheroid. This creates a significant challenge for cartographers who must accurately portray a spherical world onto a flat surface. To understand this better, let’s look...
Oil & Gas Assignments: An Asset in Lease Data
01/30/2013
An oil and gas assignment is the transfer of all or a fraction of the rights, title and interest as defined in the Oil and Gas lease contract from the original Lessee to a new Lessee. Assignments that transfer all rights are more commonly referred as blanket assignments...
Well Production Data Flow

01/07/2013
The Well Production Department gathers well header and location information from various sources and loads the information into an Oracle database called National Well Header (NWH). This information is then interactively processed using proprietary software to determine precise well locations that are mapped to a proprietary land grid...