Built for Oil & Gas Land

From Lease Exhibit
to Shapefile in Minutes.

Upload the lease or pooling exhibit and tick the pages that matter. Deed Traverse Pro locates every tract from PLSS, Texas abstract, GLO and Gulf OCS calls, draws them with acreage you can check, builds the metes and bounds, and hands your GIS team a shapefile and KML for every tract.

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Survey systems located
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Every tract, SHP + KML
$0.25/pg
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Built for
Landmen
Land & GIS Departments
Title & Curative
Division Order
A&D Teams
Pipeline ROW
Sound Familiar?

The exhibit has forty tracts.
The mapping queue is two weeks long.

Leases, pooling exhibits and acquisition schedules describe land in sections, abstracts and blocks. Turning that into a map still means someone drawing it, one tract at a time.

Drawing aliquots by hand

Splitting sections into quarters and quarter-quarters in ArcGIS, then carving out the less-and-except, for every tract in the exhibit.

Hunting surveys and abstracts

Cross-referencing abstract numbers, survey names and blocks across county maps before a single line can be drawn, and hoping you picked the right survey.

Acreage that won't tie

Government lots, partial blocks and carve-outs make drawn acreage drift from the lease, and nobody notices until the unit or the division order is wrong.

You're a landman, not a drafting department. Your time belongs on title, negotiations and deals, not in a mapping queue.

Built Alongside Land Teams

Made for the documents you actually work with.

Deed Traverse Pro comes from IAmTheMap LLC, founded by an oil and gas GIS and mapping specialist who has worked alongside land teams. It was built around lease exhibits, pooling exhibits, warranty deeds and plats, and it locates tracts against the same public survey data your GIS team already trusts. Every tract is shown to you for review before anything is built, and you approve every result.
Shows each match with its acreage Drawn vs stated vs nominal acres Confidence badge on every tract Source ID on every record
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PLSS Sections

BLM National Cadastral (CadNSDI). Aliquot parts and government lots.

ABSTRACT / SURVEY / BLOCK

Texas Surveys

Railroad Commission of Texas Original Land Survey polygons.

STATE TRACT

Texas Submerged Tracts

Texas General Land Office tract lines in the bays and the Gulf.

OCS AREA / BLOCK

Gulf OCS Blocks

BOEM block lines. Partial blocks measured proportionately.

The Plan

Three steps. One afternoon's work becomes a coffee break.

1

Upload the whole document

Drop the full lease, pooling exhibit or deed. No trimming. Tick the pages that hold the description, including the exhibit, and pay 1 credit per page you pick. Or just paste the text.

2

Confirm the tracts

Every tract is read in one pass and drawn on the map with drawn, stated and nominal acreage. When a call could mean more than one place, you pick from the matches.

3

Send it to GIS

Download All Tracts gives you a shapefile and KML for every tract plus an outline of the set. Need bearings and distances? Every tract gets a metes-and-bounds calls table too.

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Upload screen with Section / Abstract selected and a 7-page lease PDF where only page 1 is ticked, costing 1 credit
Step 1. A 7-page lease, one page ticked, one credit. The exhibit can sit anywhere in the document.
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Located PLSS tract: all of Section 32, T5S R64W, Sixth Principal Meridian, Colorado, with drawn, stated and nominal acreage
Steps 2 and 3. ALL of Sec 32, T5S R64W, 6th P.M., located with high confidence: 647.04 ac drawn against 640.00 ac stated, ready to download.
What It Reads

If it's in the exhibit, it can find it.

A sample of the description styles Deed Traverse Pro locates. Mix them in one document and every tract is read in the same pass.
PLSS aliquot
NW/4 NE/4, Section 32, T5S, R64W, 6th P.M.
Less and except
NE/4 of Section 12, T4N, R6W, LESS AND EXCEPT 5.00 acres out of the SE corner
Government lots
Lots 1 and 2 and the S/2 NE/4 of Section 2
Texas abstract & survey
A-1110, Section 14, Block 13, H&GN RR Co. Survey, Reeves County
Texas GLO state tractLive-tested
NE/2 of State Tract 224, Galveston Bay (GLO lease MF121461)
Gulf OCS blockLive-tested
OCS-G 38191, Eugene Island South Addition, Block 277

Examples are illustrative except where marked live-tested. Older leases that say "Gulf of Mexico" are matched to tracts the GLO now lists under "Gulf of America." Metes-and-bounds descriptions and survey plats work too.

Where It Fits

Built for the way land departments work.

Lease Acquisition

Map every lease as it comes in. Build a leasehold layer from the exhibits themselves instead of waiting for a drafting queue. Abstract the lease terms with O&G Abstractor.

Pooling & Unit Design

Plot pooling and unit exhibits tract by tract. ACRES and TRACT_AC fields total correctly, so unit acreage reconciles in the attribute table.

Title, Curative & DO

See the aliquot or abstract on a map before you sign off. Drawn versus stated acreage flags descriptions that don't tie.

Acquisitions & Due Diligence

Turn a seller's lease schedule into a map of what you're buying. One zip per package, with source IDs on every record.

State Waters & Offshore

Texas GLO submerged tracts with parts drawn the GLO way, and Gulf OCS blocks with partial blocks measured proportionately.

Pipeline & ROW

Metes-and-bounds easements and centerlines ending at a POINT OF TERMINATION, exported to KMZ for the field and DXF for engineering.

What Changes

Same exhibit. Very different week.

Keep doing it by hand

  • Tracts drawn one at a time, by whoever has a GIS seat free
  • Splitting PDFs before anything can be processed
  • Abstract numbers chased across county maps
  • Acreage reconciled in a spreadsheet after the fact
  • Leases on file that nobody has ever seen on a map

With Deed Traverse Pro

  • The whole exhibit located in one job
  • Upload the full document and tick the pages you need
  • Drawn, stated and nominal acres side by side on every tract
  • A shapefile and KML your GIS team can load today
  • Metes-and-bounds calls for every tract, ready for COGO or CAD
Pricing

Pay per page. No seats. No subscription.

You're charged only for the pages you pick. Credits never expire, and new accounts get 5 free pages with no credit card.
Starter
$10
25 pages · $0.40/page
Standard
$30
100 pages · $0.30/page
Pro
$125
500 pages · $0.25/page

Running a big acquisition or a whole lease book? Ask about volume pricing.

FAQ

Questions from Land Teams

It replaces the drafting, not the people. Deed Traverse Pro does the repetitive part (finding and drawing each tract) and hands GIS a clean shapefile and KML with source IDs and acreage fields. Your GIS team spends its time on analysis instead of digitizing.
PLSS section, township and range (BLM National Cadastral data), Texas abstract, survey, block and section (Railroad Commission of Texas Original Land Survey polygons), Texas state submerged tracts (Texas General Land Office), and federal Gulf OCS blocks (BOEM). Metes-and-bounds descriptions and survey plats are handled by the other document modes.
Each match is shown with its acreage and you choose. The same goes for a description that can be read more than one way. Deed Traverse Pro doesn't guess on your behalf.
No. Upload the whole recorded instrument. Every page appears as a thumbnail; tick the pages with the description and any exhibit it runs onto, and you pay 1 credit per page you pick.
Yes. Each located tract becomes a standard tract with a metes-and-bounds calls table, so you can export an ArcGIS Pro Traverse CSV, an AutoCAD DXF or a PDF report for it, just like a deed.
No. Section and survey lines come from public GIS reference data, not a survey, and Deed Traverse Pro is not a licensed survey product. Outputs are computational aids; get licensed professional review for any work product that needs certification.
Yes. How to Plot a Metes and Bounds Description covers reading each call, converting varas and chains, and checking that the exhibit closes. For the lease terms themselves, O&G Abstractor's guide How to Abstract an Oil and Gas Lease covers parties, land, term, royalty, shut-in, pooling and Pugh clauses.

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