HeyJaredThe Land Department
The Land Department shares the state of land and energy as we see it. We cover topics like region and basin-specific challenges and solutions, tactics for producing the best work, opportunities in the industry, and stories from experts in the field.
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067 - How Mineral Rights Can Kill Data Center and Solar Deals with Micah Hinton (opens the original)
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Your data center or solar project can clear engineering, financing, and permitting, and still get stopped by a mineral owner nobody accounted for. The mineral estate doesn't disappear because the site will hold servers or panels instead of a wellbore, and most developers don't find out until it's expensive to fix. Micah Hinton is a land manager at TotalEnergies and president of the Austin Professional Landmen's Association. He joins Brent and Natalie to talk about how mineral rights get evaluate
066 - Why Landowner Trust Decides Whether a Data Center Gets Built (with Drew Burke) (opens the original)
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Say “data center” to a Texas landowner right now and you'll hear about the last five years: calls every week, promises that didn't hold, and a worst-case story leading the news. That fatigue is what you're walking into, and it decides deals before the numbers do. Drew Burke runs data center site selection for Hanwha, a South Korean conglomerate, after leaving a career at Shell. He joins Brent and Natalie to talk about what responsible development takes in Texas now: answering the water question
065 - 2026 Round Table: Mentorship, Day Rates, and Responsible AI (opens the original)
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Your crews are at capacity, you're turning down work, and the bench behind them is thin. You already know the answer involves bringing new people in, and you also know that handing a trainee a courthouse assignment isn't training. Brent, Steve, and Brandon walk through what Dudley built this year: roughly 100 checkpoints a landman needs exposure to, about 20 paid mentors, and more than a dozen energy management graduates working a six-month program. They get into why day rates finally started mo
064 - The Grid, Data Centers, and the New Energy Landman with Jigar Shah (opens the original)
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The energy business you trained for keeps changing under your feet. Oil and gas, renewables, and now data centers used to be separate worlds. Today they're colliding into one grid, and the land professional sits right in the middle of it. Jigar Shah, former head of the DOE Loan Programs Office, joins Brent and Natalie for a state-of-the-union on where energy actually stands in 2026. Solar and batteries are carrying the load, data centers are learning to play nice, and right-of-way fights are get
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