About
A VAP™, virtual abstract plant for Texas counties. We started with per-section runsheet deliverables for landman shops and operators, then scaled the same craft to a full-county Foundation product. Augmented with landtecs and abstractors, OCR'd document corpora, and abstracting automation that takes throughput to three to five times what a hand-built Excel runsheet can sustain.
The premise
Every meaningful answer in O&G land work ultimately routes back to a recorded instrument at a county clerk's office. That's not changing. What's changing is how that record gets surfaced, cross-referenced, normalized, and connected to wells, parcels, and owners. County.Land's job is to make the courthouse usable at county scale, without pretending to replace its authority.
What we do
(1) Every recorded instrument in the county, OCR'd, normalized, and linked into one workbook; and (2) landmen on the ground at the courthouse doing custom abstracting, pulls, and research at affordable day rates whenever the work has to happen in person. We're the best in Texas at both, and we build the foundation your Landman team builds the MOR on.
Lineage
Edgar Tobin was a San Antonio boy who came home from the Western Front a decorated WWI flying ace, looked at the Texas oilfields below him, and in 1928 started flying mapping missions over them. Tobin Aerial Surveys became the ownership-map publisher for Texas oil and gas, pastel-tract county sheets with hand-lettered grantee names, abstract numbers, tadpole well symbols, and a Tobin cartouche in the corner. For most of the 20th century every Texas landman's office had a wall of them. We grew up looking at those sheets, and the visual tradition is in our bones, the parchment background, the serif lettering, the centroid-anchored abstract label, the credit block in the corner of our PNG and SVG exports are all a quiet bow in his direction.
County.Land is independent and unaffiliated with the Tobin name or any successor holder of the Tobin trademarks and map copyrights, Tobin International was acquired by P2 Energy Solutions in 2013, and P2 was acquired by IFS AB (the Swedish enterprise-software group) in 2022, where those rights are held today. We don't reproduce, redistribute, or trace any Tobin map. The inspiration is for the craft; the work is our own.