Versatile Expertise Demonstrated by Consistent Results

Finally, sustainable energy has its place in this country. Through experience working on solar and wind projects, we realize the importance of building long-lasting relationships with the landowners we sign on your behalf. Those relationships go a long way to seeing your project cross the finish line. Brighton’s experience in the land business can meet the land needs that Solar and Wind Companies have. It takes experience working with land professionals to locate and staff the right land agent for your project. We can staff any solar or wind project, no matter the megawatt size of your project. Trust is what we have built with the landowners and communities where we have worked over the years. It’s not always easy. At Brighton, you will find honest, talented hard-working professionals at a competitive price point.

Through our experience, we have found that the best leasing agents for renewable energy projects are those that are local to the area you are targeting. Change is hard, and the footprint with developing some solar projects is to ask for every tillable acre from a farmer who for generations has been farming the very land that we need to lease. Let us find you local talent for your next project or the project you have now that isn’t going anywhere.

To date, we have seen more than 5 Gigawatts of Wind and Solar across the finish line.

States with Renewable Experience: New York, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Texas, Arkansas, Iowa, Utah, Kentucky, Missouri and Nevada.

Our services include:

• Project Management
• Site Analysis
• GIS Mapping
• Site Identification
• Contract Negotiations/Lease Acquisition
• Title and Curative
• Document Preparation
• Administration/Data Management
• Easement/ROW Acquisition
• Carbon Capture

Whether your project involves a new pipeline project for moving gas or water, resolving issues surrounding an existing pipeline with settling damages or obtaining land for laydown areas, Brighton will find you a team of seasoned ROW Acquisition professionals to get the job done. Over the years we had equal success with both individual landowners as well as Public and Private Companies. We have a long history of working with not just ROW Operators but also Engineers Firms and local municipalities.

We provide logistical planning and supportive services, detailed GIS mapping using the latest ESRI Arc GIS software and Google Earth Pro, title abstracts from our trusted title team, and daily interactive line list updates overseen by one of our talented project managers. 

We are experienced in providing an implementation of FERC Order 609 requiring landowner notifications. Brighton will find the right program to fit your needs to comply with this and other landowner's related regulatory requirements.

We can find ROW agents who can go out and get survey permissions and right of entry for the preliminary and planning stages of your project.

We know how important it is to have the right ROW agent to make good faith and fair offers when proceeding with Eminent Domain and Condemnation Proceeding. We respect the landowner and the land.

ROW Services Include:

• Survey Permission
• Title and Curative
• GIS Mapping
• Land Acquisition and Negotiations
• Construction Monitoring
• Damage Claim Settlements
• Ferc Order 609 Regulatory Compliance
• Data Management

From 2009 to 2020 we were responsible for developing the water infrastructure pipeline system in Marshall County, West Virginia along with some talented employees at both AB Resources and Chevon which included the acquisition of more than 30 miles of ROW and countless Surface Use Agreements.

Brighton has had great success placing experienced land professionals to support in-house land department needs. Whether it’s administrative personal, IT support or division order analysts, we will find you the right person for your position.

Brighton provides complete turn-key project management services to our clients. Our managers will always have your big picture in mind. From conception to completion, our managers will keep your projects on schedule and within budget.

Title is the foundation of the land business. We have a talented group of abstractors and reviewers that have been with us for more than a decade. Whether it’s a down and dirty title for an operator in Pennsylvania, a full abstract for a Law Firm in West Virginia or a due diligence project with a tight deadline in Texas, we are confident we will exceed your expectations.

We keep track of every title that we do. We can run a quick search to give you our cost averages by district or township in multiple states. If a bid is needed, we don’t guess, we know what we average, and we base our bid on those averages.

Substantial and unique differences in laws, customs and regulations from state to state, and even county to county demand local and specialized knowledge. We hire locals. We provide digital reports, run sheets where all instruments are hyperlinked, GIS mapping using the latest ESRI Arc GIS software, current and historical maps, flow charts, assessment data and copies of all relevant documents including state oil and gas well reports. We can provide a complete breakdown calculation of working interest, overriding royalty interests, and net revenue interest.

Our experienced land agents will hit the ground running on any project. Whether your project is comprised of leasing or purchasing large tracts, subdivisions, or intense heirship leasing and purchasing, our method is to deploy agents who will bring you the land you need at the price you want to pay!

Our land agents are the local representatives for our clients and therefore we hire only the most knowledgeable, courteous and diligent professionals in this important capacity. People who respect both the landowner and the land. We insist on the highest levels of integrity from our land agents to reflect both the image of Brighton and that of your company.

With the enormous amount of publicity that has come recently to the Oil and Gas Industry, maintaining good public relations has never been more critical. The training and attitude of our landmen, combined with their tenacity, negotiating skills and honesty makes for a winning combination that represents the very best practices in our Industry. When working for an Oil and Gas E&P we require all our agents to be members of the AAPL.

We are highly practiced in the complex task of bringing forward complex mineral severances of mineral rights no matter how fractionally divided they end up being. Our genealogy team has dealt with some of the most complex heirship searches in the Appalachian Basin. “We always find them!”

We provide for our clients with current and accurate ownership reports with interactive flow charts which hyperlinks all estate records that illustrate and easily explain the heirship so that the land agents know who to contact, what deed to reference on their lease, the gross and net acreage being leased or purchased and a comprehensive list of last known address’ and phone numbers.