2026 Corporate Sponsors

NorthStar Energy

As a boutique land services firm, NSE’s primary goal is to provide the highest level of service and professionalism to our clients, as evidenced by our work product. To consistently meet that goal, we staff our projects with the most qualified landmen in the industry. Our team consists of experienced and well-versed field landmen, attorneys, and former in-house landmen, representing a collective wealth of knowledge and experience sufficient to manage any project.

We are devoted to our clients’ needs and we recognize that those need and directives can and do change frequently. As such, we are available to our clients at all times, redirecting resources and staffing as needed in real time. Our client-focused and responsiveness-driven approach has served our clients well, enabling us to provide efficiently-produced deliverables on a consistent basis.

As a result, we often have long-standing relationships with our clients, marked by mutual trust and respect. We aim to be our clients’ broker of choice, handling their most complex and sensitive projects.

Ascent Geomatics

Ascent Geomatics Solutions focuses on creating customized geospatial solutions and strategic partnerships to help our clients design, plan, and permit complex, multifaceted Oil & Gas, Electric, Solar, and Renewable Energy projects.  Our team has the experience needed to help our clients successfully navigate regionally and basin focused projects from concept, mapping, design, and permitting through construction layout & as-built. Our team of mapping professionals, drafters, permitting specialists, and professionally licensed Civil Engineers and Land Surveyors consult with our clients on the ever growing set of complex regulations and criteria that are required to successfully develop projects.

Lathrop GPM

Let’s shape the future.

Successful businesses think ahead. At Lathrop GPM, we make it our business to help you anticipate trends and plan for challenges. Working together, we build exciting futures.

Lathrop GPM serves a client base whose businesses form the backbone of our economy. Our clients run factories, build skylines, cure diseases, create jobs and power our world. And we work alongside them the entire way – immersing ourselves in our clients’ organizations and partnering with them to understand the big picture, so we can think past the day-to-day and help our clients anticipate future challenges. From the research lab to the factory floor, from oil fields to skyscrapers – we work as one integrated team to help our clients achieve their most important objectives.

Lathrop GPM was formed in 2020 through the combination of two 100+-year firms, both with strong Midwestern cores – Lathrop Gage (established in Kansas City in 1873) and Gray Plant Mooty (established in Minneapolis in 1866). Our nearly 400 attorneys practice in 14 offices nationwide, located from coast to coast – allowing us to quickly respond to clients’ needs at the local, state or national levels.

Clients are at the heart of everything we do. At Lathrop GPM, we help businesses, organizations, and individuals grow and succeed. Our work helps them seize opportunities, solve problems and dominate market spaces. With deep industry experience in health care and life sciences, franchise and distribution, agribusiness, manufacturing, and higher education, our commitment is to long-term relationships, not just transactions.

We want to lead the future of your legal services, together.

Shanor & Franklin LLC

Large Firm Reach, Small Firm Attention

At Shanor & Franklin, we provide our clients with transactional, title, regulatory and litigation services, with a primary focus on oil and gas related matters in the Rocky Mountains, Oklahoma and Texas.

We have extensive experience counseling clients at all operational levels. We work hard to provide our clients with timely and affordable services tailored to their individual needs.

Shanor & Franklin is committed to providing our clients with the sophisticated service and reach of a large firm while maintaining the personal contact and attention of a small firm.

Marauder Land Resources

Enduring Resources, LLC

Enduring Resources creates value through the identification, acquisition and exploitation of significant resource plays by:

• Focusing on plays with large resource potential.  
• Focusing on geographies where we have or can transfer industry leading knowledge. 
• Improving development concepts during delineation.
• Deploying advancing technology.
• Increasing value through vertical integration.
• Building excellent working relations with landowners and service providers.
• Operating in a prudent, safe and environmentally sensitive manner.
• Creating a workplace where everyone is a winner.

Discovery Land Services

Discovery Land Services (“Discovery”) is a Denver-based full service land brokerage with extensive domestic experience that is committed to providing unparalleled results on every project, accomplished by using its seasoned team of Project Managers, title examiners and lease brokers to timely complete each project within Client parameters and budgetary guidelines.  Further cost-saving efficiencies are realized by Discovery’s use of a variety of internally designed programming tools and applications to effectively query and capture electronically all available online data.

The entire Discovery Team are active members of and closely adhere to the professional standards of the American Association of Professional Landmen.

To discuss your next project, contact Discovery at [email protected].

Kearney, McWilliams & Davis

Kearney, McWilliams & Davis, PLLC is grounded on the idea that consolidation and focus allow for efficiency and productivity. We don’t just want to be your law firm.

We want to be your only firm.

Born from the mineral and oil & gas sectors of law, KMD has expanded to become your “general property” firm. We want to handle the entire stack of your company, estate, or land’s issues. Not merely a title firm, KMD wants to handle your intellectual property issues, business transactions, negotiations, and litigation. We want to assist you in expanding your business, negotiating and enforcing your agreements, developing and managing residential and commercial property assets, acquiring new businesses, managing your employees, and identifying and protecting you against your liabilities.

From start-up to massive multinational operators to individual inventors or small landowners, we can and want to assist you.

Our business model allows us to compensate attorneys and staff at more flexible and competitive salaries, while combined with less strict hourly requirements seen at other firms. This means our attorneys, staff, and even law clerks can focus on the individual client, rather than chasing the clock.

Bottom line: We are available, dedicated, and excited to be a part of your business. We have offices located in Houston, Denver, San Antonio and Fort Worth. Please reach out to us at your convenience.

Crowley Fleck PLLP

Crowley Fleck PLLP is the full-service firm serving the energy industry. We have extensive experience in state and federal regulatory matters, including carbon sequestration, and the rendering of title opinions for drilling, division orders, acquisitions, mergers, leasing, and other specific purposes in Montana, North and South Dakota, and Wyoming. Our attorneys handle all aspects of oil and gas litigation from basic quiet title actions to complex contractual disputes and class action royalty litigation, and we frequently represent clients in federal administrative appeals before agencies including the BLM and the BIA. Our team has the depth and experience to handle complex energy related transactions, including acquisition, financing, development, and divestiture of oil and gas properties and related facilities.

SURPRISE VALLEY RESOURCES, LLC

Surprise Valley Resources LLC is a devoted energy industry partner focused on efficient and organized leasehold acquisition and data collection for expedient asset development.

Surprise Valley Resources LLC prides itself on a talented team of independent landmen and landwomen that have extensive experience in all aspects of oil and gas exploration and production operations.  We have taken what we learned both as field landmen and as in-house landmen to speed up the leasing process, while still delivering accurate title results to our clients.  It has been our priority to always be there for our clients no matter the time or day

Bluebird Energy Partners

Founded in 2017, Bluebird Energy Partners (BEP) is an oil and gas mineral and royalty acquisition company with a strategy focused on the DJ Basin in Colorado. The BEP team possesses the knowledge and capital to efficiently evaluate and close acquisitions.

Mountain States Energy Advisors, PLLC

Carleton Gotlin Law PC

Experts in Upstream Oil and Gas

At CGL, we care about our clients and finding the optimal resolution to any energy or natural resources matter. From title examination and contract drafting to regulatory and mineral ownership issues, our team of attorneys is made up of industry experts. We apply decades of legal experience and practical exploration to guide our clients in the right direction.

Davis Graham

Davis Graham has extensive experience working with clients in all areas of the energy sector, particularly the oil and gas industry. The firm’s transactional expertise includes mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures; commercial agreements; credit and debt financings; and title and land due diligence. Davis Graham also frequently represents energy clients in restructurings, bankruptcies, and out-of-court proceedings. 

Davis Graham has the largest group of oil and gas transactional attorneys in the Rocky Mountain West and has completed oil and gas upstream and midstream transactions in virtually every oil and gas producing basin in the country. In the past few years, Davis Graham has represented clients in the oil and gas industry in more than 75 significant upstream M&A transactions, with an aggregate deal value in excess of $9 billion. Of those M&A transactions, the vast majority were in basins outside of Colorado. Davis Graham also has extensive expertise regarding a wide spectrum of public lands issues, which is critical to energy projects in the Rocky Mountain West given the prevalence of federal, state, and tribal lands and the unique statutory and regulatory frameworks that govern such lands. Davis Graham is unique in the broad range of expertise it provides to energy clients, from negotiating the most sophisticated transactions and litigating the most high-stakes cases to assisting with routine regulatory, environmental compliance, or operational matters and conducting title and land due diligence. 

Davis Graham’s standing has, coupled with an intensive vetting process, enabled it to become the exclusive Colorado member firm for Lex Mundi, a network of top-tier independent law firms in more than 125 countries. This affiliation adds value to our client relationships by providing easy access to experts in different jurisdictions.

EOG Resources, Inc.

EOG Resources, Inc. (NYSE: EOG) is one of the largest crude oil and natural gas exploration
and production companies in the United States with proved reserves in the U.S. and Trinidad.
The company is focused on being among the highest return, lowest cost, and lowest
emissions producers, playing a significant role in the long-term future of energy.