Cinco is a strategic resource for companies in multiple industries seeking support with their land and title matters. Our team of skilled professionals, trusted processes, and flexible resources help our customers do more with less and achieve the results they need to be successful at each stage of their business’ life cycle.
Cinco offers a wide-ranging portfolio of services to address the needs of various stakeholders in the upstream space. Our clients include operators, non-operators, investors, underwriters and legal teams. Our teams work on oil and gas properties nationwide. We leverage our competencies – often in combination with specialized processes and software – to meet the unique business needs of each client.
Since 2006, Cinco has worked for renewable energy and power storage developers in 13 states. We provide siting, title research, contract negotiation and land acquisition. The renewables space faces increasing competition and our clients rely on our experience and to read the market and execute effectively.
We support environmental decarbonization efforts by working with Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) teams to secure onshore storage rights for CO2. As one of the earliest movers in this space, we have helped clients with strategy, agreements and landowner negotiations to secure storage sites and right-of-way access.
Cinco was founded in Houston, Texas in 1990 to provide more comprehensive and seasoned land and title support to oil and gas operators. After three decades, we’ve worked in nearly every US state, served multiple industries and built relationships with clients nationwide and globally.
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On behalf of a top 10 global E&P company, Cinco prepared title abstracts, negotiated and acquired leases in a 200,000 net acre AOI in Louisiana.
Cinco has performed the title due diligence for hundreds of transactions of oil and gas properties nationwide. Since 2020, Cinco completed title due diligence on more than $10 billion in transaction volume on behalf of energy companies, lenders, insurers and legal teams.
For a large international JV partner, Cinco provided in-house and outsourced staff to fulfill all company land functions, including a director or land, multiple levels of land professionals, land administration staff and a database transition team.
Cinco acquired rights for a planned 240 MWh battery energy storage system in Texas for an energy storage owner-operator.
Provided surface and mineral title research covering approximately 15,000 net acres for a solar developer in Colorado, Kansas and Missouri.
Cinco provided title and commercial site assessments for 50 carbon storage sites, supported preparation of agreements and conducted boots-on-the-ground transactions negotiations with landowners.