Remnant Energy

Investors and partners

We find and work the assets. Partners decide and pay.

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.

Ask to join the partner list See a sample memo
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Who does what

The record work is ours. The decision is yours.

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.

What we do

Find
We watch bankruptcy filings and sale notices for oil, gas, mineral and renewable interests that are left over, unscheduled or sold as a lot.
Screen
Before the bid deadline we read the case and run the debtor's names, and its affiliates' names, against county clerk indexes and our well and lease data. Every finding gets an evidence grade.
Trace
Where the screen leaves a question that matters to the bid, we pull and read the documents that decide it.
Work it after closing
Record the sale order and assignments in each county, send transfer orders and sign up division orders with the payors, claim the money held in suspense, and do the curative the record calls for.

What partners do

Read
Read the memo and ask us anything about the record behind it.
Decide
Say yes or no on each deal by the date in the memo. No is a fine answer.
Pay
Pay for the purchases you choose to make.

On a partner deal we act for the partners on it, and we do not trace for another bidder on the same sale.

In oil and gas we start with royalty, mineral and overriding royalty interests. A working interest carries plugging and operating obligations; we bring one to partners only once those are worked out in the record.

What partners receive

A short memo on each deal.

Written by Jerry Ward from the case file and the record screen. It reports what the record shows and how sure we are. It does not value an interest.

Sample memo

What a memo looks like.

The estate, court, county, names and records below are made up. The layout is the one partners receive.

Sample

Partner memo S-01 · private, for partners on the list

Quarry Lark Energy, LLC and affiliates

Case No. 00-00000 (sample number), United States Bankruptcy Court for the Sample District of Texas (no such district). Plan confirmed; the liquidating trustee has moved to sell "all remaining oil, gas and mineral interests" at auction.

Your answer by
November 10, 2026
Bid deadline
November 13, 2026
Auction
November 17, 2026
Sale hearing
November 24, 2026

What is for sale

Exhibit A to the sale motion lists overriding royalties in Caliche County, Texas (no such county), and ends with "all other oil, gas and mineral interests of the debtors, whether or not scheduled."

What our record screen found

Sample screen findings, each with its evidence grade
ItemWhat we foundHow sure
QL-1Overriding royalty in four leases, Caliche County. We read the recorded assignment to the debtor.Confirmed
QL-1Two wells on those leases report production through the latest month in state records; the operator's statement in the estate's papers agrees.Corroborated
QL-2Mineral interest in one tract. The deed is in the county index; we have not read it yet.Indexed
QL-3Two lease assignments to an affiliate whose name is not on the schedules.Lead
SuspenseThe estate's ledger shows one payor holding money on QL-1 since 2023, for title.Indexed

What is unknown

  • Whether the affiliate's two assignments (QL-3) were later reassigned or released.
  • How much the payor holds in suspense, and what it will ask for to release it.
  • Whether an earlier reserved override burdens QL-1.
  • What the QL-2 deed actually conveys.

Work plan

Before the bid

Pull and read the QL-2 deed. Search the affiliate's name in the clerk index and the state records. Ask the trustee for the payor's suspense statement. Each result goes to the partners on this deal before their answer date.

After closing

Record the sale order and the trustee's assignment to the buyer in Caliche County. Send transfer orders to the payors and sign up the division orders. Claim the suspense. Curative on QL-3 and anything the pulls leave open.

Sample. Made-up estate, court, county, names and records. Not a real deal.

How it starts

Tell us what you look at.

  1. Send the form. A few lines are enough.
  2. Jerry Ward reads it and replies by email.
  3. We talk about what you look at: the kinds of assets, the areas, how you like to hear about a deal.
  4. When a deal fits, the memo comes to you privately. Deals are shared one at a time.
  5. You decide yes or no by the date in the memo.

Or call (307) 263-8515, or email gerald@ourlandmen.com.

For example: royalty, mineral and overriding royalty interests, or renewable leases; the states or basins you know; how you like to hear about a deal.

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