About | Mapping | Budget Controls | Reports About SLAM Had enough of calling your broker for an update on your project/prospect and getting it three days later…if you’re lucky? SLAM! puts an end to snail’s pace communications with your landman. Log on to SLAM! and you’ll get real-time project/prospect reports with corresponding real-time Geographical Information System maps in seconds, not days. On the daunting exploration landscape of the 21st Century, leases, permits and surface damages are only the tip of the iceberg. With SLAM! you can see every facet of the land aspect of your projects/prospects on a real-time, easy to understand platform. Additionally, SLAM! keeps you from getting caught up in tedious issues or blindsided by unforeseen hazards. SLAM! manages the entire land portion of your project/prospect so you can focus on getting the deal done. SLAM! is the most comprehensive land management tool in the industry – with real-time GIS maps of your projects/prospects reflecting the status of all contracts pertaining to your deal. We manage the leasing and permitting part for you, and, with over 250 years of combined experience in our management team, we do it more efficiently that any other company in the industry. If you’re looking for efficient, proven management with 24-7 secure, on-line access to annotated, real-time maps and reports of your projects/prospects, SLAM! is your resource. What’s the best way to get ahead of the competition? SLAM! it. Slam!, by OGM – for the thinking landman. back to top Mapping If wrestling with a huge volume of paper maps while trying to complete you project/prospect is not exactly your idea of fun, SLAM! can make life a lot easier for you. Our real-time Geographical Information System mapping software lets you see the maps that are key to your project/prospect on-line, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Our state-of-the-art mapping module lets you zoom-in, zoom-out, see aerial and topographic features, measure distances and buffer objects. Additionally, with the real-time data concerning ownership, leasing and permitting status residing in the GIS, you get the added assurance that your maps are always current – and they’re always only a mouse-click away. Your project/prospect maps are also available to you and your colleagues via e-mail – showing expirations, obligations and addendums. In the exploration business, yesterday’s record of land-related issues is worthless; a real-time mapping and reporting system is invaluable. With SLAM! you’ll never have to rely on maps that don’t reflect the current, up-to-the-minute status of your project/prospect. back to top Budget Controls The vast number of moving parts involved in getting an oil and gas project/prospect off the ground requires tight and reliable budget controls. At crucial points during the life of a project/prospect, these controls need to be invoked on a daily, if not hourly basis. SLAM!’s budget control module makes real-time, cradle-to-grave budget management a snap. SLAM! takes the AFE to the world of land management. Using SLAM!, OGM can give you a free ballpark estimate of your land costs on any given prospect. If you like what you see, hire us, and as we move deeper into the job we’ll give you a highly refined sense of the dollars it will take to handle the land side of your deal within a ten percent margin of error from your actual capital outlay. The budget control component of SLAM! lets you see the land AFE 24-7. You can see your original land AFE, dollars spent, dollars remaining, and the percentage of project/prospect completion. SLAM! also flags you when the numbers begin to deviate from your AFE – eliminating unpleasant surprises and keeping you on-mission to getting your project/prospect completed on time and within the boundaries of your budget. SLAM! allays your concerns about land-related budget items. SLAM!’s budget feature keeps your budget in sync with your AFE and your project/prospect focused and under control. back to top Reports Comprehensive, current and reliable records of the status of ownership, leasing and surface matters are absolutely crucial to the timely completion of your projects/prospects. On this front, SLAM! has you covered with real-time ownership and lease status reports that are tied to our world-class Geographical Information System mapping module. Best of all, you can see all land-related issues regarding your project/prospect on-line, 24 hours a day, seven days a week – all at the click of a mouse. SLAM! eliminates hassling with mounds of paper records and sifting through records that may be unrelated to your current projects/prospects. In addition to your typical ownership, lease/purchase, tract summary and complete tract reports, SLAM! offers several other reports that bring an added dimension to the land side of your project/prospect management. You can even see actual lease instruments as scanned documents. SLAM! automatically exports all relevant data to the following reports that you can access at the click of a mouse: • Lease Check Report – reflects the cursory title review of an area of interest. The report reflects mineral owner’s name and address, acreage content, leasehold status (open, leased, HBP), last lessee and address, if available in the records - the terms of the last lease of record (royalty, primary term, special provisions), HBP information • Ownership Report – data specific to each parcel of land. The report reflects owner’s name, address, percentage of interest owned, net mineral acres owned, and leasehold status. The report also includes comments related to title issues found in the chain of title (gaps, missing probates, liens/mortgages, defective legal descriptions, etc.) • Open Acreage Report – This report is prepared for options, leases, extensions, rights-of-way, easements, surface use agreements, or any other item for which money has been spent. The information in this report is detailed data specific to the acquisition – including the owners’ information, tract information, consideration paid and percentage acquired, the acquisition terms, and special provisions of the acquisition document along with future obligations (extensions and rentals). • Held-by-Others Report – includes information of other players in the area of interest on a tract-by-tract, mineral owner basis. • Prospect Summary Report – Along with totals for the following fields covering the entire prospect, this report reflects summary data pertaining to each tract in the prospect regarding gross acres, net mineral acres signed, percentage signed, total bonus spent – along with the net mineral acres and percentage and dollar consideration applicable to any committed interest. • Prospect Detail Report – Covering the entire prospect, tract-by-tract, this report reflects data for each mineral owner as to net mineral acres signed and bonus paid, along with the net mineral acres and dollar consideration applicable to any committed interest. In addition, this report reflects net acres signed and committed for each tract. • Rentals Due Report – This is a report of all rentals due for any applicable time frame. It reflects the date due and the amount of delay rental obligations due in a tract-by-tract, owner-by-owner format. • Schedule of Leases – This report is an overview, on an owner-by-owner basis, of the acquired instruments’ listing dates, bonus paid, and rentals. • Obligation Report – Similar to a Rentals Due Report, but also includes other possible obligations - including options to lease and options to extend both options and/or leases. This report can be generated for any applicable monthly time frame or be all-inclusive. • Expiration Report – This report reflects the expiration of all obligations. Like the Rentals Due Report and the Obligation Report, the Expiration Report can be specific to any applicable time frame, or all-inclusive. • Provisions Report – lists all leases containing a selected provision. On-line accessible maps can be colored to reflect specific provisions. • Assignment Exhibit "A" Report – The client can utilize this report to generate exhibits for assignments, unit designations and other applicable documents. • Runsheet Report – for original, supplemental or complementary runsheets or abstracts. The data reflected includes the parties to the document; the date, effective date and filing date of the document; the recording reference; a brief description of the subject property with applicable references; and brief, but relevant, remarks regarding the document content – including reservations or conveyances. The runsheet can be sorted by execution date, effective date, or file date. • Curative Control Sheet – reflects a brief on all curative requirements listed in title opinions along with the status of addressing the curative item. It can also reflect comments the summarize the manner in which the requirement was cured or the status of the progress for the item. To sum it up, we handle the hassle for you and let you do what you do best. Most importantly, you can be assured that all data you access on-line is encrypted and highly secure. You and your colleagues will be the only parties that have on-line access to SLAM!’s thorough, continuously updated reports that will keep your project/prospect running smoothly and on time. back to top