Negotiations Are Still a People Business
JOAs, farm-outs, trade agreements, and custom lease addendums — handled by someone who's sat on both sides of the table.
A joint operating agreement is a thirty-year relationship disguised as a document. The terms you accept today — non-consent penalties, operator removal provisions, AFE thresholds — are the terms you live with through every well, every dispute, and every ownership change that follows.
Prosper Natural Resources negotiates and papers the agreements that define how your assets actually operate. Kevin R. Dickerson, CPL, brings 28 years of transaction work to the table: he knows the standard forms, knows where the leverage sits, and knows which provisions get quietly slipped into a redline at 5 p.m. on a Friday.
What's included
- Joint operating agreement negotiation and drafting — new JOAs, amendments, and election handling
- Farm-out and farm-in agreements structured to protect your position on both the earning and assigning side
- Acreage trades and term assignments
- Custom lease addendums that address your operational reality instead of recycling boilerplate
- Difficult-conversation work: surface owners, mineral owners, and counterparties who need a professional across the table, not a form letter
Why it's not a software problem
Reading the other side of the table doesn't come in a software update. Automation accelerates the paperwork; it doesn't tell you when to hold a term and when to trade it. That's experience — and it's the part of the practice that will never be delegated to a machine.