Ingest the production. Classify every document, privilege-screen it, surface the hot docs, track the custodians — for royalty class actions, lease and JOA disputes, environmental tort, regulatory enforcement, and M&A title diligence.
A royalty class action or a major lease dispute lands a production of a million-plus documents across hundreds of custodians. Basin ingests it once and runs the whole first pass — classification, privilege, hot docs, custodians — against the indexed set.
Classify every document by type, responsiveness, and issue. Thread near-duplicates and families. The first pass a contract review team would take weeks on, done in a single pass.
Draft the privilege log, catch over-claims and business advice dressed as legal, and manage clawback and holdback. Every call cited to the document it came from.
Surface the documents that move the matter — the ones that contradict the pleadings or admit the deduction — and tie each to the issue and the custodian who held it.
Map documents to custodians and roles across decades of personnel. Know whose files a hot document came from before the deposition, not after.
Oil & gas litigation generates enormous productions because the operative facts are decades old and spread across leasing, operations, accounting, and the regulators. Basin is built for the document load each of these carries.
Statewide royalty-owner classes alleging underpayment and unauthorized deductions. Millions of run statements and division-order files against the leases that govern them.
Continuous-development, Pugh, and depth-clause fights between working-interest owners. Decades of operations files, AFEs, and elections in the production.
Contamination, induced-seismicity, and surface-use claims. Permits, monitoring data, and field correspondence going back to operations no one alive ran.
State-commission and agency actions on production reporting, spacing, and plugging. Filings cross-referenced against the operator's own internal record.
Pre-acquisition review of producing properties at production scale. Title, leases, and obligations read across the seller's entire document room, not a sample.
The operative document is a 1962 lease, a faxed 1991 amendment, or a handwritten margin note on a division order. Basin reads the corpus as it actually exists.
An energy matter starts with a 1962 lease, a 1978 amendment, a 1994 farmout, and a 2009 assignment of overriding royalty — much of it scanned, faxed, or handwritten. The argument lives in three sentences scattered across that corpus. A partner who knows where to look bills it out at $1,200 an hour. There aren't many of those partners left.
Once the production is reviewed, the technical documents need a specialist's read. The harness knows the shapes — leases, division orders, run statements, AFEs, AORIs — and reads them in the context the practice area requires, scanned and handwritten originals included. The original production document is never re-rendered or flattened; every classification, privilege call, and finding cites the exact source document and bates page.
Parse habendum, Pugh, depth, shut-in royalty, and surface-use clauses. Walk the chain from original mineral grant through every assignment.
Reconcile decimal interests across operators, NRIs, ORRIs, NPRIs. Flag stipulations that conflict with the underlying lease.
Read monthly production volumes, posted prices, deductions. Surface underpayments at the line-item level across hundreds of months.
Track every Authority For Expenditure, election deadline, non-consent invocation, and the penalties that followed.
Cross-check the opinion against the underlying recorded documents. Flag stipulations the title attorney noted but the operator never cured.
Track Form filings across the state commissions (TX RRC, OK OCC, NM OCD, ND IC). Cross-reference reported production against severance tax filings.
The deepest read the same engine runs — the reconciliation a royalty class action lives or dies on, line by line.
A typical underpayment is 8–15% per well per month across a 200-well unit over 60 months. Basin reads every run statement against the underlying lease automatically and surfaces the deductions the operator wasn't entitled to take — cited to the clause that prohibits them.
Plaintiff and defense firms running productions in royalty class actions, lease and JOA disputes, environmental tort, and enforcement. They put Basin on the first pass — classification, privilege, hot docs — then take it deep on the technical documents the matter turns on.
Producers running pre-acquisition title diligence across a seller's full document room. In-house counsel reconciling royalty payments before a landowner audit. Land departments tracking expirations across thousands of leases.
Send us a production from a closed matter or one of your current ones. We'll run Basin on it end-to-end — classification, privilege, hot docs, the technical read — and you see the findings line by line on real work before you commit.
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