ALEX FITCH
Land & Right of Way Professional, CPL
9039 Eagles View
Spring Branch, TX 78070
(830) 885-2131
SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS:
Masters Degree, Urban & Regional Planning/Land Use Law; University of Louisiana - Lafayette, 1990.
4.0 average in Graduate School. Developed 72-acre residential subdivision in 1979.
Professional individual with extensive background in mineral land-lease, title, right-of-way and real estate fields. Skills include supervision of all aspects of the above. Thirty-seven years’ experience in drafting and negotiation of multifaceted contracts and leases with both corporate and private landowners.
Published author in Landman and International Right-of-Way Association journals.
EMPLOYMENT OVERVIEW:
Independent Landman - 1993-2015 Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi & Arkansas - Runsheets, Leases, Titles, Seismic Operations and Curative; Abstracts of title from severance to present; since 2004, in Texas . Pipeline activity : Managed acquisition agents and various survey crews and followed construction and settled damages on 110 miles of pipeline construction for Union Pacific Resources Corp. (1995-1998) in Western Louisiana and Eastern Texas during extensive drilling program in that area; gathering system included flowlines from 120 + wells and two trunklines in consolidation of production transportation. 2000 – 2009 title, leasing and flowline ROW for St. Mary Land & Exploration Company.
ConocoPhillips Company (“COP”) -2010-2015 ROW agent in Eagle Ford area. In 2014 alone, saved COP over $700,000 in construction costs via innovative routing/landowner dealing different from suggested Engineering requirements on the DCF5 to DSCF8 Loop.
Trigon Engineering. Inc. - 1992 Pipeline Right-of-Way Agent on 37 mile Koch Pipeline Company project from Sherman TX to Gainesville TX in Northeast Texas; Title, ROW and valve sites. Also, title and right-of-way agent for street improvement project in Boise, Idaho.
Title Abstractor -Lafayette, LA - 1991 Independent contractor; furnished 52-year real estate titles, petroleum properties titles back to severance from United States.
Graduate School – 1989-1990 City and Regional planning, Master’s Degree
Robertson Consultants. Inc. - Phoenix, Arizona - 1987-1988 Title searches, negotiations and securing of street improvement properties for federally funded urban projects per Uniform Relocation Acts of 1970 & 1987 in Central Arizona.
Hargrove Oil Company, Inc. - Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana - 1981-1986 Managed and Supervised crews of petroleum landmen in all aspects of title and acquisition on a 16,000-acre oil and gas leasing project; Prepared mineral histories and title curatives.
Dow Chemical Company - South Louisiana -1972-1981 Right-of-Way Manager - Supervised Right-of-Way crews in title and acquisition; co-ordinated with surveyors on route feasibility; construction management, settled damage claims, managed ancillary construction cleanup subcontractors. Acquired 110 miles of trunkline from the Texas border to the Plaquemines, Louisiana plant, and multiple gathering lines thereto.
MILITARY:
U. S. Marine Corps
Infantry Company Commander, Vietnam
LICENSES/CERTIFICATIONS:
Arizona State Real Estate
Louisiana State Real Estate
Certified Professional Landman #5149
LANGUAGE:
English language minor; excellent verbal and written communicator. Spanish; have negotiated OGMLs and pipeline rights of way entirely in Spanish