Nationwide Mineral Rights and Subsurface Title Searches

Real Title Services provides nationwide mineral-rights and subsurface title searches for title companies, law firms, lenders, investors, developers, energy companies, oil and gas teams, infrastructure teams, and commercial real estate professionals. These searches help identify recorded ownership, mineral interests, oil and gas interests, water rights, easements, liens, encumbrances, leases, and other property-record matters that may affect a project, transaction, or due diligence review. RTS can support subsurface searches as standalone assignments or as part of larger surface and subsurface due diligence involving energy, infrastructure, cell tower, renewable energy, commercial, or land acquisition projects.

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Why Choose Real Title Services for Subsurface Search

Comprehensive Coverage

With so much ground to cover, subsurface title searches can be exhausting and time-consuming. Avoid doing it yourself and save precious time. With the capacity to cover 50 states, we will conduct a thorough search for you nationwide, making sure there are no liens or judgments on your underground areas of interest.  We got you covered with our complete search of both the surface land and subsurface.

Tailored Solutions

We cater to projects of all sizes and specialties in the United States. No natural resource exploitation mission is ever the same, and you need a title search team that understands this. Let’s collaborate to protect all your legal rights on your subsurface property lease or acquisition.

Efficient and Accurate

We apply a meticulous, systematic approach to each search so your team can review recorded ownership, liens, encumbrances, easements, leases, and other matters that may affect the property.

Our Subsurface search Title Service Offerings

A subsurface title search typically involves investigating property records to determine ownership and rights related to subsurface interests, such as mineral rights, oil, gas, or other underground resources. While these types of searches might indirectly include information about rights of way for utilities or infrastructure projects, such as transmission lines or pipelines, they wouldn’t typically be the first step for identifying surface-related easements like EV charging stations, cell towers, solar, or wind farms.  Therefore we bundle your subsurface search with a surface search giving all the facts above or below ground.

Protect your investment with a detailed title search for your subsurface investment. 

Oil and Gas Rights

If you’ve identified an oil and gas property that you would like to purchase, let us conduct your title search for a smooth process. On a big investment such as this, the last thing you want are defects or issues with ownership. Receive your oil and gas rights without obstacles with Real Title Services.

Mineral Rights

RTS provides mineral-rights title search support for clients who need to understand recorded mineral ownership, reservations, severances, leases, transfers, and related encumbrances. These searches are often used in energy, lending, legal, commercial, investment, and infrastructure contexts.

Water Rights

Where applicable, RTS can support title search and document retrieval needs involving recorded water-rights interests, ownership history, and related property records. Availability and scope may vary by state, county, and project requirements.

 

Renewable Energy and Alternative Resources

RTS supports title search and property research needs for renewable energy and infrastructure projects, including solar, wind, transmission, utility, cell tower, and other land-based development work. These projects often require review of ownership, easements, access rights, encumbrances, liens, leases, and recorded interests that may affect project feasibility or financing.

Some key forms of renewable and alternative energy include:

  • Solar: The most abundant energy resource, solar energy can be harnessed even on cloudy days. Solar panels convert sunlight into electricity, either on rooftops or in community installations.
  • Geothermal: This energy is derived from the Earth’s core, used for heating, cooling, and electricity generation.
  • Hydroelectric: Utilizing the energy of flowing water to generate electricity, this method often involves the use of dams to store water, which is released to generate power.
  • Bioenergy: Organic materials like plants or food waste are used to generate electricity. While bioenergy emits carbon dioxide, it is considered renewable since the fuel sources can be regrown.

Other forms of alternative energy include wind energy, ocean energy, and tidal energy.

As the transition to renewable energy and alternative energy projects accelerates, securing proper land rights through subsurface title searches becomes essential for ensuring a successful venture. Whether it’s for a wind farm, solar farm, hydroelectric project, or other renewable energy initiatives, Real Title Services is your trusted partner in navigating the legal complexities.