Toadstool Land Services Llc.

What Toadstool Land Services Llc. does

Toadstool Land Services, LLC is a privately held professional land services firm headquartered in Lafayette, Louisiana, founded in January 2023 by landman Richard Murff, Jr., RPL. The firm provides landman services to the oil, gas, and renewable energy industries, including leasing and lease acquisition, title research, abstracting, mineral history research, due diligence, title curative work, and GIS mapping. Its client base spans major energy corporations, independent operators, law firms, and renewable energy developers, with named engagements including ExxonMobil and Denbury on Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS) projects, Kindle Energy on power plant title cleanup, and Standard Lithium on lithium extraction land services.

The company's underlying technology combines standard industry GIS and database platforms (ESRI ArcGIS, AutoCAD Map 3D, iLandman from P2 Energy, Enverus) with proprietary automation. The founder previously developed SectionCheck, software written in C++ and AutoLISP that extracts data from lease databases and generates visual maps of leased tracts, capable of mapping an entire Parish of historical and active leases with oil and gas units in less than two hours. SectionCheck was sold to a large online oil and gas data provider in 2008, prior to the firm's 2023 formation. The firm also offers a public-facing unit converter utility for land measurements across multiple regional conventions (arpents, chains, vara, etc.).

Toadstool operates a project-based professional services revenue model with no publicly disclosed pricing, monetizing through custom-quoted engagements tied to scope and complexity. Go-to-market is enterprise field sales driven by the founder's industry reputation, direct relationships with energy clients, and referrals from law firms and industry contacts. The team disclosed on the website consists of two named professionals, indicating a small but specialized operating footprint targeting high-value energy transition and traditional oil and gas landwork.

Name

Toadstool Land Services Llc.

Legal name

Toadstool Land Services, LLC

Website

https://toadstoolland.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2023

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Toadstool Land Services is a Lafayette, Louisiana-based professional landman firm providing leasing, title research, abstracting, due diligence, and GIS mapping services to oil, gas, and renewable energy clients including ExxonMobil, Denbury, and Kindle Energy.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Oil and Gas Land Services

NAICS

Support Activities for Mining (2131), Real Estate Property Managers (53131)

SIC

Oil & Gas Field Services, Nec (1389), Real Estate Agents & Managers (For Others) (6531)

akta.pro primary industry

Property Management Advisory & Leasing Administration (FSAEAJAN)

akta.pro secondary industry

Land Administration & Cadastral Services (Public Land Records, Parcel Management) (BPAIANAH)

Keywords

• Oil and gas landman services
• Title abstracting services
• Lease acquisition services
• Mineral rights research
• Renewable energy leasing

Headquarters

HQ city

Lafayette

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Others

Revenue model

1. Professional Land Services: Fee-based professional services including title research, abstracting, leasing, due diligence, and land management for energy companies. Revenue generated through project-based engagements and professional service contracts.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Toadstool Land Services is a professional landman services firm providing leasing, title research, abstracting, due diligence, mineral and conservation history research, GIS mapping, and Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS) project support to oil and gas operators, renewable energy developers, and oil and gas law firms across multiple U.S. states. The firm combines the founder's 20+ years of landman experience with the proprietary SectionCheck automated mapping technology to deliver efficient acreage identification, lease acquisition, and complex title curative work for energy industry clients.

Product overview

Toadstool Land Services is a land management firm offering a comprehensive suite of services for the oil, gas, and renewable energy industries. The core offering consists of integrated service modules including Abstracting & Title Curative, Carbon Capture & Sequestration, Leasing & Lease Checks, and GIS Mapping. The company was founded in January 2023 and leverages over 20 years of combined industry experience from its professional team. A public-facing Unit Converter tool is also provided for industry measurements.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Leasing & Due Diligence

Quantifiable outcome

• Mapping an entire Parish of historical and active leases along with oil and gas units in less than two hours
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature2 records

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Stewart Title Company: Major national title insurance and real estate services company with a dedicated energy practice serving oil and gas and renewable energy clients. Wider service portfolio than Toadstool (title insurance, escrow) but overlapping on title curative and land transaction services for energy operators.

Direct peers

• Contract Land Staff: National oil and gas land services firm providing lease acquisition, title research, abstracting, and due diligence to operators across multiple basins. Closest direct competitor in scale and service mix to Toadstool, though with significantly broader geographic coverage and a larger bench.
• Cawley, Gillespie & Associates: Established Texas-based petroleum land services firm offering leasing, title, abstracting, and curative work to oil and gas operators. Comparable boutique landman services with deep Gulf Coast experience, similar in scope and customer profile to Toadstool.
• Bowles Energy Services: Texas-based energy land services firm providing lease acquisition, title research, and land management to oil and gas operators. Comparable boutique offering in the same Gulf Coast / Haynesville / Permian geography as Toadstool.

Others

• Enverus: Energy data, analytics, and SaaS platform used by Toadstool for land data and workflows. Not a direct competitor but a critical technology and data partner in the O&G land services ecosystem, and a potential acquirer of automation IP similar to SectionCheck.
• P2 Energy Solutions: Provider of iLandman and other upstream software used by Toadstool for lease, contract, and division-order management. Serves as a technology and workflow partner to the firm rather than a competitor, but competes for software-driven productivity gains inside operator land departments.

Regional players

• Waggoner Engineering: Louisiana-based engineering, surveying, and land services firm with deep Gulf Coast relationships. Competitor for adjacent land, surveying, and engineering work with energy clients in the same geography as Toadstool's Lafayette headquarters.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/toadstoolland

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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