# remnant.energy - Bankruptcy remnant assets, found and worked | Remnant Energy > We find oil, gas, mineral and renewable assets left in bankruptcies, research the record before the bid and do the landman work, with investor partners. ## Overview & Scope - **Canonical Domain**: https://remnant.energy/ - **Contact Email**: hello@remnant.energy - **Phone**: (307) 263-8515 - **Privacy Policy**: https://remnant.energy/privacy.html - **Terms of Use**: https://remnant.energy/terms.html - **Access Policy**: Public browser calculators, checklists, and reference guides on this domain are free and ungated. 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Who does the work and how to reach us. - [Chapter 7 & Chapter 11 Oil & Gas Remnant Sales | remnant.energy](https://remnant.energy/chapter-7-and-chapter-11-oil-and-gas-remnant-sales): How bankruptcy trustees and liquidating trusts sell residual oil and gas interests, and how to trace whether a debtor owned a recorded mineral interest. - [Evidence grades | Remnant Energy](https://remnant.energy/evidence-grades): Confirmed, corroborated, indexed and lead: how each finding in a Remnant Energy trace report is graded, with rows from the sample report. - [How a trace works | Remnant Energy](https://remnant.energy/how-a-trace-works): The ten steps from a request to a trace report on a bankruptcy estate's oil and gas, mineral and renewable interests, and what a trace does not cover. - [Bankruptcy remnant assets, found and worked | Remnant Energy](https://remnant.energy/): We find oil, gas, mineral and renewable assets left in bankruptcies, research the record before the bid and do the landman work, with investor partners. - [Investors and partners | Remnant Energy](https://remnant.energy/partners): Investors and partners: we find bankruptcy remnant assets, research the record and do the landman work; partners decide on each purchase and pay for it. - [Request a trace | Remnant Energy](https://remnant.energy/request): Send the case and what you need to know about an estate's oil and gas, mineral or renewable interests. A written scope comes before any work. - [Suspense Funds & Payor Transfer After a Bankruptcy Sale](https://remnant.energy/suspense-funds-and-payor-transfer-after-a-bankruptcy-sale): What operators and division order departments require to transfer a debtor's pay status and release suspended oil and gas revenues after a bankruptcy sale. - [The trace report, page by page | Remnant Energy](https://remnant.energy/the-report): What a Remnant Energy trace report holds, shown on a seven-page sample for a made-up bankruptcy estate. Download the sample PDF. - [Unscheduled Mineral & Overriding Royalty Interests](https://remnant.energy/unscheduled-mineral-and-overriding-royalty-interests-in-bankruptcy): How unscheduled mineral, royalty, and overriding royalty interests behave under Bankruptcy Code Section 554 when a bankruptcy case closes. --- ## Full Page Summaries & Sections ### About | Remnant Energy - **URL**: https://remnant.energy/about - **Headline**: A landman company reading what an estate left behind. - **Summary**: An independent landman company that finds bankruptcy remnant assets, researches the record and does the landman work. Who does the work and how to reach us. - **Sections**: Who does the work; How we work; Contact; Have a case?; Tell us the case and the question.; Pages; Solar land, no bankruptcy? - We are an independent landman company. The work is ordinary landman work, pointed at bankruptcy estates: read the leases, assignments, orders and payor papers, and say plainly what they show. - We find the assets, research them before the bid and do the landman work after closing. Buyers, counsel and trustees hire us for trace reports. Investor partners decide on purchases and pay for them; we work alongside them. - A small team of independent landman professionals. A landman on our team scopes each trace, reads the case and the instruments, sets the grades and signs the report for Remnant Energy, and writes each memo our partners receive. Record pulls run through our own county records software; a landman on our team reads every document a finding rests on. ### Chapter 7 & Chapter 11 Oil & Gas Remnant Sales | remnant.energy - **URL**: https://remnant.energy/chapter-7-and-chapter-11-oil-and-gas-remnant-sales - **Headline**: Chapter 7 & Chapter 11 Oil and Gas Remnant Sales - **Summary**: How bankruptcy trustees and liquidating trusts sell residual oil and gas interests, and how to trace whether a debtor owned a recorded mineral interest. - **Sections**: Key record questions; Tell us the case and the question.; Pages; Contact; Solar land, no bankruptcy? - What a bankruptcy trustee's remnant bill of sale or quitclaim actually conveys, and how county deed records determine whether any property interest passed. - Near the close of a Chapter 7 liquidation or a post-confirmation Chapter 11 liquidating trust, the trustee or plan administrator often sells a catch-all package of known and unknown remaining assets, or executes a quitclaim assignment covering a list of counties and wells. That instrument conveys only whatever right, title, and interest the bankruptcy estate still held on the sale date. - Debtors frequently list operator payor numbers, old division order lines, or prospect names on Schedule A/B without a legal description, or fail to schedule small royalty and overriding royalty interests entirely. Conversely, an interest listed on a schedule may have been conveyed away or terminated when the underlying lease expired years before the petition date. ### Evidence grades | Remnant Energy - **URL**: https://remnant.energy/evidence-grades - **Headline**: Four grades, in words. - **Summary**: Confirmed, corroborated, indexed and lead: how each finding in a Remnant Energy trace report is graded, with rows from the sample report. - **Sections**: What each grade means; From the sample report; How grades are set; The words we use; Tell us the case and the question.; Pages; Contact; Solar land, no bankruptcy? - Every finding that rests on a document carries one. A grade says how well the finding is documented and which document to read next. It does not say who owns the interest. - The document that decides the point was read: a recorded instrument, an entered order, a signed agreement, or the agency record that reports the fact. - Next Name the holds and any last document. ### How a trace works | Remnant Energy - **URL**: https://remnant.energy/how-a-trace-works - **Headline**: Ten steps from your request to the report. - **Summary**: The ten steps from a request to a trace report on a bankruptcy estate's oil and gas, mineral and renewable interests, and what a trace does not cover. - **Sections**: The steps; What depends on the case and the county; What a trace does not cover; Tell us the case and the question.; Pages; Contact; Solar land, no bankruptcy? - A person reads the leases, the orders and the payor papers and sets every grade. Our records software pulls index entries and document images; it decides nothing. - We read it and write or call back with questions. - We check whether we already act for another side on the same assets; if we do, we go on only with written disclosure and consent from both sides. Then the scope goes in writing: the case, which interests or the whole remaining set, which kinds, who we act for, deliverables, delivery date and fee. Nothing starts until you agree to it. ### Bankruptcy remnant assets, found and worked | Remnant Energy - **URL**: https://remnant.energy/ - **Headline**: What bankruptcies leave behind, found and worked. - **Summary**: We find oil, gas, mineral and renewable assets left in bankruptcies, research the record before the bid and do the landman work, with investor partners. - **Sections**: Two ways to work with us; One trace, whatever the estate left.; Buyers, their counsel, trustees and the trade.; Seven pages on a made-up estate.; Case file first, then the records.; How well each finding is documented.; Common bankruptcy remnant title questions; Tell us the case and the question. - We find oil, gas, mineral and renewable assets left behind in bankruptcies. We research the record before anyone bids, and after closing we do the landman work: recording, division orders, suspense and curative. We work alongside investors who decide on each purchase and pay for it. - Buyers, their counsel and trustees also hire us for one piece of that work: a trace report on what an estate still holds. - Download the sample trace report (PDF, 7 pages) ### Investors and partners | Remnant Energy - **URL**: https://remnant.energy/partners - **Headline**: We find and work the assets. Partners decide and pay. - **Summary**: Investors and partners: we find bankruptcy remnant assets, research the record and do the landman work; partners decide on each purchase and pay for it. - **Sections**: The record work is ours. The decision is yours.; A short memo on each deal.; What a memo looks like.; Tell us what you look at.; Pages; Contact; Solar land, no bankruptcy? - We find oil, gas, mineral and renewable assets left behind in bankruptcies and research the record before anyone bids. Our partners are investors who decide on each purchase and pay for it. After closing, we do the landman work. - Each deal comes to partners privately, as a short memo, one at a time. Nothing about a deal is posted on this site. - We bring the deals, the record research and the landman work. Partners bring the decision on each deal and pay for the purchases they choose. Terms for each deal, including how the bid is made and whose name the purchase is in, are set privately with the partners on it before the bid. ### Request a trace | Remnant Energy - **URL**: https://remnant.energy/request - **Headline**: Tell us the case and what you need to know. - **Summary**: Send the case and what you need to know about an estate's oil and gas, mineral or renewable interests. A written scope comes before any work. - **Sections**: What happens next; Pages; Contact; Solar land, no bankruptcy? - A few lines are enough to start. The case name or number helps most. - Trustees and estates: we take requests through your counsel. - Investors and partners: choose "Investor or capital partner". What happens next for you is on the partners page. ### Suspense Funds & Payor Transfer After a Bankruptcy Sale - **URL**: https://remnant.energy/suspense-funds-and-payor-transfer-after-a-bankruptcy-sale - **Headline**: Suspense Funds & Payor Transfer After a Bankruptcy Sale - **Summary**: What operators and division order departments require to transfer a debtor's pay status and release suspended oil and gas revenues after a bankruptcy sale. - **Sections**: Key record questions; Tell us the case and the question.; Pages; Contact; Solar land, no bankruptcy? - The documentary chain division order analysts require to move a bankrupt owner's decimal out of legal suspense or trace escheated unclaimed property. - When an operator receives notice of a bankruptcy filing, a returned revenue check, or a conflicting claim from a remnant buyer, the division order department places the owner number in suspense. A quitclaim bill of sale tied only to the bankruptcy court docket is rarely enough on its own to release those funds. - Because oil and gas interests are governed by the real property recording statutes of the state and county where the land is located, operators normally require a certified copy of the bankruptcy sale order or plan confirmation order, the trustee's assignment with a sufficient county-level description, and recording stamps from the county clerk (or parish Clerk of Court). ### The trace report, page by page | Remnant Energy - **URL**: https://remnant.energy/the-report - **Headline**: The trace report, page by page. - **Summary**: What a Remnant Energy trace report holds, shown on a seven-page sample for a made-up bankruptcy estate. Download the sample PDF. - **Sections**: Cover; Interest list; An oil and gas interest; An other mineral interest; A renewable lease option; Leads and open items; Sources and limits; What comes with the report. - This is the work product: a PDF report on what an estate holds, with the instrument and case documents it cites, as far as the scope and the estate permit. The sample covers a made-up estate with one oil and gas interest, one other mineral interest, one renewable lease option and a lead. - Sample. Made-up estate, names and records. The debtor, court, county, wells, parties and figures do not exist. - The estate, the case and court, who holds the assets now, why the report was asked for, who it was prepared for and which side we act for, the scope, and the date each kind of record was read through. ### Unscheduled Mineral & Overriding Royalty Interests - **URL**: https://remnant.energy/unscheduled-mineral-and-overriding-royalty-interests-in-bankruptcy - **Headline**: Unscheduled Mineral & ORRI Interests in Bankruptcy - **Summary**: How unscheduled mineral, royalty, and overriding royalty interests behave under Bankruptcy Code Section 554 when a bankruptcy case closes. - **Sections**: Key record questions; Tell us the case and the question.; Pages; Contact; Solar land, no bankruptcy? - How Bankruptcy Code Section 554 treats scheduled versus unscheduled real property interests when a bankruptcy estate closes, and how to check the record. - Under 11 U.S.C. Section 554(c), property that was properly scheduled under Section 521(a)(1) and not otherwise administered at the time of the closing of a case is abandoned to the debtor. By contrast, under Section 554(d), property of the estate that is not abandoned and not administered in the case remains property of the estate even after the case is closed. - When tracing an unscheduled or remnant interest, the first record question is what kind of interest the debtor held. A perpetual mineral or royalty deed survives lease expiration, whereas an overriding royalty interest (ORRI) carved out of a specific oil and gas lease generally terminates when that lease expires by cessation of production, unless the creating assignment contains an anti-washout or renewal-and-extension clause.