For midstream ROW teams and pipeline consultants

Linear projects, across jurisdictions.

A midstream right-of-way crosses three counties and forty landowners. Basinfoundry maps the parcels, pulls the easement history, and builds the landowner packet upfront, so your ROW agents walk into every conversation prepared.

4+
Counties per route,
researched in parallel
100%
Of prior easements
inventoried per parcel
10 days
From route lock
to agent-ready packets
Route
Level tracking, not
tract-by-tract guesswork

Pipelines don't respect county lines. Neither should your research.

01 — One pipeline, four county clerks

Four filing systems, four indexing conventions, one deadline.

Linear projects cross jurisdictions by definition. Your team is pulling documents from four courthouses for one route, each with different indexing, different online portals, and different clerks who take personal days on different Fridays.

02 — Existing easement spaghetti

Old oil and gas lines, prior pipelines, and a solar option too.

Landowners have decades of prior instruments on their parcel: oil and gas leases, existing ROW grants, telecom easements, utility assignments. Your agent needs to know every one of them before they knock on the door.

03 — Compensation history matters

What did the neighbor get paid on the last pipeline?

Prior easement rates anchor the negotiation. Walking in blind means a weaker opening offer and a landowner who's already talked to three neighbors about what they got paid. Comparable history is leverage.

04 — Route changes on short notice

Engineering moves the centerline 400 feet. Now what?

A reroute triggered by wetlands, archaeology, or a landowner refusal rolls a new set of parcels into scope with the original deadline still intact. You can't re-staff in two days. Automated re-pull can.

05 — Surface use, subsurface conflict

The oil and gas operator isn't going to like this easement.

Producing leases, gathering lines, and mineral lessee consents overlap with your proposed ROW. Identifying every impacted third party up front is how you avoid construction-halt surprises six months in.

06 — Condemnation documentation

If negotiation fails, your file has to be bulletproof.

Eminent domain proceedings demand a complete title trail, prior offers on the record, and evidence of good-faith negotiation. Incomplete files lose condemnation hearings. Ours are built for the courthouse from day one.

A route-level package, ready for the ROW team on day one.

We build the research stack that sits underneath every landowner conversation, so your ROW agents can walk the line with full context, not a folder of open questions.

i.
Route parcel mapping

Every parcel along the centerline, with ownership and contact.

Hand us a KMZ or centerline shapefile with a buffer width. We return a parcel list covering every crossing: current owner, mailing address, APN, legal description, and acreage affected. Ready for your ROW agent to start outreach.

Before
Week of GIS work
With Basinfoundry
48-hour parcel set
ii.
Easement history

Every prior ROW, lease, and utility grant on the parcel.

We pull the full history of recorded easements, leases, and encumbrances for each crossing parcel. Your ROW agent knows exactly what the landowner already granted, to whom, on what terms, before the first conversation.

Before
Found out mid-negotiation
With Basinfoundry
Known before the visit
iii.
Third-party consents

Who else has to sign: flagged and sequenced.

Oil and gas lessees, mineral owners, mortgagees, life tenants, HOA approvals. We identify every required third-party consent on every crossing parcel and sequence the outreach so you're not waiting on the last signature at closing.

Before
Surprise consents at closing
With Basinfoundry
Mapped upfront
iv.
Negotiation documentation

A clean file for every tract, ready for closing or condemnation.

Every contact attempt, every offer, every counter, and every signed document captured per parcel. If negotiation succeeds, you close fast. If it has to go to condemnation, the file is already trial-ready.

Before
Email archaeology
With Basinfoundry
Court-ready file

Run it on one route.

Book a 30-minute call. Bring a centerline, a KMZ, or a route narrative. We'll scope a paid pilot on a single segment so you can see the packets against your own ROW standards before committing.

Book a 30-min walkthrough →
Your route. Your agents. Your closing.