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Joel Klause
Landman/Title AbstractorAs a Landman and Title Abstractor since 1993, I have acquired vast knowledge and skills which I worked hard to build to advance my career. I take tremendous pride in the many accomplishments that I have made throughout those years, and I am constantly looking to expand and challenge myself to new experiences. I am looking to bring all of my talents and acquired knowledge to your company. Being an Independent Landman requires a great amount of self-motivation and constant adaptation to meet the requirements of the changing oil and gas industry. Being able to adapt and stay motivated are two of the things that I have excelled at since the beginning of my career. I began my career in 1993 as a Real Estate Abstractor’s apprentice and quickly became a Senior Abstractor covering surface title research in the southeastern Louisiana parishes. In 2005 I started my own company, Infinity Abstracting, L.L.C. Five months later, Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans which destroyed the real estate industry, thereby destroying my business. It was then that I began my Landman career, and the opportunities that opened up to me were astounding. Since the reinvention of my company from Real Estate Abstractor to Landman, I have travelled the country and have worked in over 70 Parishes/Counties throughout eight states. I have worked as an in-house contractor, lived out on the road, worked remotely from my house, and worked in secured facilities on projects that I can’t mention. My resume contains details of my past accomplishments and lists some of the companies for which I have worked. I am an active member of the AAPL and have a website, www.infinityabstracting.com, which contains more information about me. Finally, I have a lot to offer as I am creative-minded and am able to perform tasks quickly and efficiently. I work well as an individual and/or with a team and have a laid-back, easy-going personality while maintaining a professional demeanor. I am proficient in all the Microsoft Office programs and have built many different types of reports and projects in my career. I have a strong commitment to personal and professional excellence.
| Last Resume Update | February 07, 2020 |
| Degree | Some College Coursework Completed |
| Category | Landman |
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| City | Nine Mile Point |
| State | LA |
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Experience
• Entergy Gulf States separation into Entergy Louisiana and Entergy Texas Companies. (2006-2007), In-house contractor; obtaining copies of ROWs and database merging from Entergy Headquarters in Beaumont, TX. and The Woodlands, TX. for the Entergy Corporate Office records at Entergy Tower (One Poydras Plaza, New Orleans).
• City of New Orleans/State of Louisiana Road Home Project Title Instructor (2007-2008), One of five Abstractors hired to train several teams of Abstractors brought in from around the country to research all of the flooded properties in the Parish of Orleans after Hurricane Katrina in an effort to issue grant money and aid to the proper land owner in order to revive the infrastructure and economy in the City of New Orleans.
• ROW, Abstracts, Due Diligence & Acquisition Contractor for the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-West (SLFPA-West) Project (2008-2012), In-house and on-site contractor for Entergy Louisiana, Louisiana Army of Corps Engineers and the West Jefferson Levee District for acquisition of lands and compensations of appropriated lands and servitudes necessary for the construction of utilities, highways, levees, floodwalls and floodgates as part of the 100 Year Levee Protection Project.
• Abstractor and Title Examiner, Percheron Field Services (2015-2016), Keystone Pipeline Project, Aston, PA to Scio, PA. Property Title and Title Examiner in Burkes, Chester, Dauphin, Delaware, Lancaster and Lebanon Counties.
• Property Title for Class Action Lawsuit for McGlinchey Stafford, PLLC (2016), Performed over 2,500 title updates covering 29 Parishes on Louisiana within a deadline of 60 days for a Class Action Civil Case.
• Abstractor, Schoeffler Energy Group (2017-2019), Worked with a team of Abstractors and Leasing Agents on site as part of a massive project covering the entire city of Carlsbad, New Mexico and Federal Leases in surrounding areas in the Permian Basin.
