# landman.solar - Landman Solar | Solar Site Control, Title and Waivers > Independent landmen for solar projects: parcel screening, surface and mineral title, curative, landowner leasing and mineral surface waivers. ## Overview & Scope - **Canonical Domain**: https://landman.solar/ - **Contact Email**: hello@landman.solar - **Phone**: (307) 263-8515 - **Privacy Policy**: https://landman.solar/privacy.html - **Terms of Use**: https://landman.solar/terms.html - **Access Policy**: Public browser calculators, checklists, and reference guides on this domain are free and ungated. 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Title and mineral requirements on those pads are stricter than on the surrounding tracker blocks. - This is general landman reference material, not legal advice. Title insurance endorsements and statutory lease terms should be reviewed by your own counsel. ### Landman Solar | Solar Site Control, Title and Waivers - **URL**: https://landman.solar/ - **Headline**: Land for solar, worked tract by tract. - **Summary**: Independent landmen for solar projects: parcel screening, surface and mineral title, curative, landowner leasing and mineral surface waivers. - **Sections**: From first parcel map to notice to proceed; Got a solar option in the mail?; What changes by region; Rent model; Terms you'll see in the paperwork; Guides; Questions we get; Start a project - Solar · Storage · Gen-tie ROW · Surface and mineral title - We're independent landmen who put solar projects together tract by tract. We screen the parcels, run surface and mineral title, work what's broken with your counsel and title company, lease the landowners, and negotiate the mineral waivers the lender will ask for. - Or call (307) 263-8515 or write hello@landman.solar. ### Mineral Title & Curative for Utility Solar | Landman Solar - **URL**: https://landman.solar/mineral-curative-for-utility-scale-solar-financing - **Headline**: Mineral title and heirship curative for utility-scale solar financing - **Summary**: How courthouse landmen run sovereign-to-present surface & mineral chains, cure probate & heirship gaps. - **Sections**: On this page; 1Why a preliminary title commitment does not list mineral owners; 2What goes into a solar Mineral Ownership Report (MOR); 3Surface title curative: heirs, trusts, and prior liens; 4Mineral curative: expired oil and gas leases and HBP checks; Scope a title and curative package; Contact; Entity - Texas · Courthouse title · Mineral and surface curative - Standard title company commitments stop at the surface estate and list all severed minerals as a blanket Schedule B exception. To reach financial close on a utility-scale solar project, developers need a full mineral ownership report and targeted courthouse curative on both the surface and mineral chains. - This is general landman reference material, not legal advice. Title insurance commitments and underwriting decisions come from the title company and project counsel. ### Surface Waivers & Drill-Site Reservations | Landman Solar - **URL**: https://landman.solar/surface-waiver-and-drill-site-reservation-agreements - **Headline**: Surface waiver and drill-site reservation agreements for Texas solar projects - **Summary**: How surface waivers, drill-site island reservations, & directional subsurface windows work between Texas mineral owners, oil & gas operators. - **Sections**: On this page; 1Why the accommodation doctrine is not a substitute for waivers; 2Core provisions in a solar surface waiver or SUA; 3Who has to sign: unleased minerals vs. leased working interest; 4Sizing drill-site islands and pipeline corridors; Start a project or review a waiver; Contact; Entity - Texas · Severed minerals · Surface waivers and drill-site islands - Because the mineral estate is dominant in Texas, a severed mineral owner or oil and gas lessee retains an implied right to use the surface as reasonably necessary to explore for and produce oil and gas. Solar projects address that conflict through recorded surface waivers, drill-site island reservations, and subsurface directional windows. - This is general landman reference material, not legal advice. Every tract turns on its own deed chain, active oil and gas leases, and title underwriting requirements. ### Texas solar lease removal and financial assurance | Landman Solar - **URL**: https://landman.solar/texas-solar-lease-removal-financial-assurance - **Headline**: What Texas requires certain solar leases to say about removal and financial assurance - **Summary**: What Texas Utilities Code chapter 302 requires certain solar leases to say about removal, recycling and financial assurance, and which leases it reaches. - **Sections**: On this page; 1Which leases the chapter reaches; 2What the lease must say about removal; 3Financial assurance; 4If the lease also covers storage; 5If a lease leaves a term out; 6Where each rule would show up in a lease; Sources - Texas · Solar leases · Utilities Code chapter 302 - Texas Utilities Code chapter 302 lists what a solar power facility lease has to say about taking the project out and backing that work with financial assurance. This page reads the text: what the lease must provide, which leases the chapter reaches, and what it leaves open. - This is general information, not legal advice. It covers Texas only and reports what the statute says. What it means for a particular lease is a question for your own attorney. ### Texas solar title endorsements: T-55 and T-19.4 | Landman Solar - **URL**: https://landman.solar/texas-solar-title-insurance-endorsements - **Headline**: Title insurance endorsements for a Texas solar project: the T-55 series and T-19.4 - **Summary**: What the Texas T-55 energy project endorsements & the T-19.2, T-19.3 & T-19.4 minerals & surface damage endorsements say. - **Sections**: On this page; 1Where the forms and rules come from; 2The six T-55 endorsements; 3What a T-55 says; 4Minerals and surface damage: T-19.2, T-19.3 and T-19.4; 5What none of this does; Sources; Start a project - Texas · Title insurance · T-55 series and T-19.4 - Texas has a family of title insurance endorsements written for energy projects, the T-55 series, and a minerals and surface damage endorsement, T-19.4, that goes with them. This page reads the forms and the Texas Department of Insurance rules that govern them. - This is general information, not legal advice and not a recommendation to buy insurance. It covers Texas forms only and reports what the forms and rules say. Whether a title company issues an endorsement on a given project is the company's decision.