Faster mineral title work, double‑checked by a veteran landman.
KLW Land Services puts AI to work at every opportunity, from reading county records to calculating interests and drafting reports, so you aren't paying for hours of manual work. Then every runsheet, flowchart and ownership report is double-checked, instrument by instrument, by Ken Welch, RPL.
- RPL
- AAPL Registered Petroleum Landman since 2015
- 20+ years
- As a petroleum landman and abstractor
- 5 states
- TX, LA, OK, KS and NM
Karnes County, Texas
Title and ownership services
Research, reports and curative for operators, law firms and acquisition teams.
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Mineral title
Mineral ownership traced from sovereignty to present, including fragmented interests passed through heirships, probates and unrecorded transfers.
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Surface and mineral title
Complete surface and mineral chains for projects that need both, such as pad sites, pipelines and acquisitions.
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Ownership reports
Current mineral and leasehold ownership with every fractional interest calculated and tied to its source instrument.
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Flowcharts
Visual chains of title that make complex ownership easy to follow, review and present to your team or client.
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Due diligence
Title review support for acquisitions, divestitures and drilling programs, delivered on your timeline.
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Curative
Title defects identified and cured, from affidavits of heirship to ratifications and correction instruments.
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Abstracting and runsheets
Courthouse and online records research compiled into clean, indexed runsheets you can sort and filter in Excel.
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Plat mapping and deed plotting
Legal descriptions plotted to confirm tract boundaries and catch gaps or overlaps before they become problems.
How AI lowers your cost
Most of the hours in title work go to reading, typing and calculating. AI is used at every opportunity to handle that work, so your budget goes to judgment instead of data entry.
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AI indexes the records
County and online records are gathered, and AI reads each instrument to pull parties, dates, legal descriptions and reservations into a draft runsheet.
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AI drafts the ownership
AI chains title, calculates fractional interests and drafts the flowchart and ownership report.
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Ken double-checks everything
Every entry is checked against the source document, every fraction is recalculated and every gap is run down.
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You get clean deliverables
Ownership reports and runsheets in Excel, with flowcharts and plats when the project needs them.
AI at every opportunity. Every result double-checked by a Registered Petroleum Landman.
- Fewer billed hours spent on data entry
- Quicker turnaround on large and multi-county projects
- Consistent, searchable records you can build on
Where I work
County and parish records research across five states.
- Texas Counties statewide
- Louisiana Parish records
- Oklahoma
- Kansas
- New Mexico
Who I work with
- Energy companies and operators
- Oil and gas law firms
- Acquisition and divestiture teams
Working somewhere else? Ask anyway. If I can't take the project, I'll tell you quickly.
About Ken Welch, RPL
Ken Welch has spent over 20 years as a petroleum landman and abstractor in counties across Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Kansas and New Mexico. His work centers on mineral title, ownership reports, flowcharts, due diligence and curative, with particular depth in chaining fragmented mineral ownership that has passed through generations of heirs.
He works with energy companies, law firms and acquisition teams on projects where accuracy matters, and he is known for meticulous research and detailed, well-organized Excel reporting.
KLW Land Services pairs that experience with AI at every opportunity, taking the repetitive work out of records research, and double-checks every result before it goes out. Clients get the judgment of a seasoned landman, delivered faster and at a lower cost.
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