Feature · HBP & Lease-Expiration Radar

When the lease lapses, reach the owner first

An oil & gas lease whose primary term is about to expire — with no production holding it — is a lease about to free the minerals underneath to re-lease or sell. HBP & Lease-Expiration Radar tracks those expiration clocks, runs the held-by-production test on each lease, and surfaces the lessor you already track inside it — so you arrive with a clean offer before the term lapses.

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app.mineraleagle.com/lease-clock Expiring Lease

Expiring lease live

HBP Not held by production

Held-by operator

NORTH STAR E&P

Reeves Co · TX Recorded lease

Owners on the lease 3 lessors

Term Primary term expires in 94 days

Public lease record — verify before contact.

Lessors on the lease · matched to operator

Graph Held-by operator Lessor (owner)

One expiring lease — a primary term not held by production, tied to its held-by operator, with the lessors you track surfaced inside it and the expiration clock attached. Sample data is illustrative.

01 · The leases

Primary terms about to lapse

Every oil & gas lease has a primary term — a fixed window in which the operator must drill or lose the acreage. Mineral Eagle tracks those clocks and surfaces the leases whose primary term expires in the next 24 months: roughly 69,500 leases across the owner spine, refreshed as new records land. When that window closes, the minerals are back in play — and you want to be on the lessor before they are.

Primary-term leases nearing expiry
~69,500 expiring in the next 24 months
Tracked off the recorded lease record
Surfaced before the term lapses

02 · The HBP test

Held by production, or not

A primary term that ends is not the end of the story — production can hold a lease past it (the "held by production" clause). The opportunity is the lease that lapses without production holding it. Mineral Eagle runs the held-by-production test per lease against well and production records, so each expiring lease is annotated: still HBP, or NOT held — about 34,800 of the expiring set fall in the "will lapse" column.

Held-by-production test per lease
~34,800 NOT held by production
The "will lapse" opportunity set
HBP verified where production is known

03 · The lessor

The mineral owner inside the lease

This is the match that matters. Every lease has a lessor — the mineral owner who signed it — and Mineral Eagle joins each expiring lease to the lessor you already track in the owner spine. Roughly 56,000 distinct mineral owners sit inside the expiring set, so a lapsing lease surfaces as a contactable owner whose minerals are about to come free, not an abstract lease number.

Lease joined to its lessor (the owner)
~56,000 distinct mineral owners
Contactable owner inside every lease
Whose minerals are about to come free

04 · The clock

Reach them before the term lapses

The whole point is the expiration clock — not a bid deadline you race, but a date you can plan around. When a primary term lapses without production holding it, the lessor is free to re-lease or sell, and a buyer who arrives with a clean offer first wins the conversation. The match feeds your lead scoring and digest, so owners whose lease is nearing expiry rise in your list while there is still runway.

Expiration date on every lease
A clock to plan around, not a race
Feeds lead scoring & the digest
Land your offer before the minerals re-lease

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Where owners whose lease is nearing expiry lift up your list

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Turn a lapsing lease into letters before the term expires

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HBP & Lease-Expiration Radar, briefly

What does "held by production" (HBP) mean?

An oil & gas lease has a primary term — a fixed window for the operator to drill. If a well is producing in paying quantities when that term ends, the lease is "held by production" and stays in force indefinitely. If nothing is holding it, the primary term simply lapses and the minerals come free to re-lease or sell. Mineral Eagle annotates each expiring lease with that HBP status.

How do you determine which leases are "expiring"?

Expiry is computed from the recorded lease — its effective date and primary-term length — to project when the primary term ends. The radar surfaces leases whose primary term expires in the next 24 months, about 69,500 across the owner spine. See the data coverage page for cadence and source detail.

What does "not held by production" tell me?

It is the opportunity set. A primary term ending while production holds the lease changes nothing for the owner. A primary term ending with no production holding it means the lease lapses and the minerals are back in play — roughly 34,800 of the expiring leases fall in that "will lapse" column, and those are the lessors worth reaching first.

Which states is held-by-production verified in?

HBP is verified against well and production records in TX, CO, NM, PA, OH, WV, ND, WY, LA, MT, UT, and MS. OK and KS are shown with production status unknown — the expiring lease still surfaces, but the held-by test is not yet confirmed there. The data coverage page tracks this by state.

How quickly does a newly expiring lease reach me?

Expiring leases refresh as new lease and production records land, and a matched lease feeds your lead scoring and digest — so a lessor whose primary term is nearing expiry rises in your list well ahead of the lapse date, with runway to work the offer. The data coverage page covers cadence.

For buyers · investors · landmen

Be the offer that arrives before the minerals come free.

Bring the operators and counties you work. On a demo we'll show leases whose primary term is about to lapse — annotated with held-by-production status and matched to the lessor you track — so you see who you'd reach and how much runway is left on the clock.

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