Petro Land Ventures, Inc. Know who owns it, what the record shows, and where the risk sits.
Certified Professional Landmen in Duncansville, PA. Title, leasing and due diligence for companies, and plain answers for landowners and heirs.
- 45 Combined years in oil and gas Petro Land Ventures has worked files since January 2005, and each of us has more than 20 years in the business.
- CPL Certified Professional Landmen The highest credential the American Association of Professional Landmen issues for title and leasing work.
No hand-offs. The landman who searches the courthouse record is the one who writes your report and takes your call.
No guessing. Every report says what the record shows, what it does not, and what it would take to close the gap.
Who You'll Talk To
Every call and every report comes from one of the two Certified Professional Landmen who run the firm.
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Rickey Matherne, Jr., CPL Certified Professional Landman -
Shannon Matherne, CPL Certified Professional Landman
See the Work Before You Call
We published a complete sample file: a runsheet (a list of every deed, will and lease in the chain), an ownership report, a lease acquisition report, and a supplemental report that resolves an heirship. It is fictional and annotated, so you can see how the work reads whether you run a land department or own forty acres.
View the sample fileLand Services
Six kinds of land work, from one family's inherited tract to multi-county leasing programs and acquisition due diligence.
What Happens When You Contact Us
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You reach out.
Call, or send a short note. Tell us the county and what you need: a letter you received, a tract to run, or a project to staff.
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We look at the record.
We pull what the public record shows about your tract and your ownership.
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We report back in plain language.
You get a clear picture of what you own, what the document says, and what is still unclear.
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You decide the next step, with us.
If a question needs an attorney, we will tell you, and we are glad to work alongside yours.
Where We Work
Select a basin or a shaded state to see the plays worked there.
- Project experience
- Available nationwide
Home basin for the firm. Stacked Marcellus and Utica development over some of the oldest and most fragmented mineral title in the country. Heirship research, record gaps, and century-old severances are common here.
States worked Pennsylvania · Ohio · Tennessee
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Marcellus Shale
The largest natural gas field in the United States, centered in Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
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Utica Shale
A deeper play lying beneath the Marcellus, productive for gas, condensate, and oil, particularly in eastern Ohio.
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Clinton / Medina
Shallow conventional sandstones across eastern Ohio and western Pennsylvania with more than a century of production history.
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Chattanooga Shale
A Devonian shale across Tennessee and the southern Appalachians, developed both conventionally and unconventionally.
The firm's longest track record. Deep gas development in the Haynesville and Bossier, oil in the Tuscaloosa Marine Shale, and long-established conventional production along the coast. Salt-dome geology and fragmented ownership are common.
States worked Texas · Louisiana · Mississippi
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Haynesville Shale
A deep, high-pressure dry gas play across northwest Louisiana and East Texas, and one of the largest gas producers in the country.
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Bossier
A gas-bearing interval stacked above the Haynesville, frequently developed alongside it in East Texas and North Louisiana.
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Tuscaloosa Marine Shale
An oil-prone shale running across central Louisiana and southwest Mississippi, commonly abbreviated TMS.
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Eagle Ford Shale
A South Texas oil, condensate, and gas play running in a band from the Mexican border northeast toward East Texas.
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East Texas Basin
A long-producing conventional basin, home to the historic East Texas Oil Field and multiple stacked targets still developed today.
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Gulf Coast Trend
The onshore coastal belt across Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi, where shallow conventional production and salt-dome structures dominate.
The largest oil-producing basin in the United States, covering more than 75,000 square miles across West Texas and southeast New Mexico. Oil sits in several stacked layers in the Midland and Delaware sub-basins, so ownership that changes with depth is a routine title issue here.
States worked Texas
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Midland Sub-basin
The eastern half of the Permian, where the Spraberry and Wolfcamp benches are developed in tight, heavily leased sections.
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Delaware Sub-basin
The deeper western half of the Permian, running into southeast New Mexico with thicker Bone Spring and Wolfcamp targets.
A bowl-shaped basin under Michigan's Lower Peninsula that produces from several stacked layers. Its shallow Antrim gas was some of the first shale gas developed commercially in the country.
States worked Michigan
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Antrim Shale
A shallow biogenic gas play in the northern Michigan Basin, and one of the first commercially developed shale gas plays in the United States.
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Northern Michigan Conventional
Niagaran pinnacle reef targets developed across the northern Lower Peninsula, with the Trenton-Black River (Albion-Scipio) trend to the south.
Renewable energy land work. Utility-scale solar and wind siting involves surface use agreements, setbacks, and long-term option periods, along with transmission and interconnection right-of-way.
States worked Washington
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Solar & Wind Lease Acquisition
Option and lease packages assembled across contiguous surface tracts for utility-scale renewable siting.
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Right-of-Way Corridors
Transmission and interconnection routing, negotiated tract by tract to connect generation to the grid.
Not sure what you own? We can find out.
Send the letter you received, or a county and a tract list. We will tell you what the record shows and what it will take.