GIS Analyst

Company Description

Purple Land Management (PLM) is one of the fastest-growing privately held companies in North Texas. PLM serves clients such as energy producers, midstream operators, state and local agencies, engineering firms and mobile service providers in lease negotiation and acquisition, right-of-way acquisition, title services and project management. PLM has ten office locations across the country, with the headquarters located in downtown Fort Worth.

Job Description

A GIS Analyst at Purple Land Management must possess a thorough understanding of the ESRI ArcGIS Suite and be able to use that knowledge to generate and organize GIS Data. The GIS Analyst must be able to analyze and review title documents, including oil and gas leases, real property deeds, easements, rights-of-way, and other instruments and determine where they are situated and whether or not they impact a client’s real property. A GIS Analyst must also be able to establish leasehold boundaries against changing surveys, water lines, vegetation, and historical maps, and compare the boundaries against historical production data to determine whether a parcel of real property is validly leased by a producing oil or gas well (determine HBP status).

Responsibilities

• Support land services projects as assigned by the Senior GIS Analyst by developing and implementing GIS solutions, building maps, comparing historical mapping and survey data against present day tax parcel identification numbers, deed plotting leasehold, and determining HBP status of oil and gas producing properties
• Build, organize, maintain and manage all of PLM’s client and organizational databases including confidential data
• Assist District Landmen and Project Managers with the preparation of updates and presentation of data from title research and lease acquisitions
• Review title documents including real property legal descriptions to assess real property boundaries
• Build complex KMZ file or equivalent to provide satellite imagery based work product that allows a client to properly navigate a leasehold or acreage position

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in GIS is strongly preferred
• Two years or more experience using GIS in an oil and gas context preferred
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, specifically Excel, and cloud computing generally
• Highest proficiency in ArcGIS required
• Self-starter and self-motivated with strong organizational and reasoning skills
• IT experience or proficiency working with computer hardware and software maintenance (preferred)