Landman 2024– Magnet

35/46

A modern tale of finding your fortune in the oil rig world of West Texas

See the most popular movies and TV series by writer/director Taylor Sheridan on IMDb, ranked by user ratings. A landman, at least one working in the oil industry, will act as a go-between between exploration companies and landowners. Landowners’ jobs are typically to negotiate and negotiate contracts with landowners with mineral rights to lease those rights to the company they represent.

Referenced on CBS News Sunday Morning: Episode #4424 (2022)

They essentially manage the land and secure leases so that they can extract oil and gas. As foremen on a construction site, they build roads, worker dormitories (camp), oversee the assembly of excavation equipment, and drill the well itself, especially in remote locations. They are also part of the Fixer, Problem Solver, and Facilitator..

Only three episodes

Billy Bob Thornton is welcomed back to Texas since his Friday Night in 2006. The feeling is Yellowstone and this is welcome, a series with a bit of reality vs. superheroes and fantasy.

Set in the Permian Oilfield Basin, great cast so far!

Interesting people and stories…We oilfield guys are shaking our heads at the inaccuracies of life in the field and the explosions/gunfire. The technical failures in the first three episodes are embarrassing and your technical consultant messed everything up in the Blowout scene. A stuck old valve, a 24 inch pipe wrench (applied upside down hammer near the top 100% wrong.

No hammer, unless brass hammer (ie

Need torque, didn’t you try any Cheater pipe first? no sparks)? This would never be done by any experienced crew on a downstream oil field seen as a “Landman” trying to shut down a blowout (I never saw a Landman on; location).