Texas General Land Office

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Texas General Land Office state-lands oil & gas — ~7.3K active leases, ~12K inactive, ~12K units, ~21.9K Permanent School Fund tracts, ~5.9K easements, ~3.4K offshore structures, plus hard-mineral and lease-sale nominated tracts.

What is Texas General Land Office?

Texas General Land Office (TxGLO) public ArcGIS REST FeatureServer covering state-lands oil & gas leasing. Active and inactive leases come with 42-field records — lease number, status, primary-term and effective dates, original gross/net acres, current gross/net acres, lessee, lease type, royalty rates for oil/gas/sulphur, depth restrictions, field name, county, and polygon geometry. Also includes oil & gas units (active + inactive), Permanent School Fund Lands (~21.9K), miscellaneous easements (~5.9K, no county column), offshore structures (~3.4K), lease-sale nominated tracts (~56), and hard minerals (~130). Date columns are MM/DD/YYYY strings — date filters are applied client-side. ORIGINAL_LESSEE is the original lessee, not the current operator. Counties always returned in Title Case. The getExpiringLeases method ranks active leases by days-until-primary-term-expiry — useful as an acquisition-signal feed for state-lands.

Available Tools

searchActiveLeases
Active GLO leases — filter by county, lessee, status, type, field, bbox, near, dates, acres.
searchInactiveLeases
Inactive/terminated GLO leases — same filter shape as searchActiveLeases.
getLeaseDetail
Single-lease lookup — Active first, falls back to Inactive. Includes unit if UNITIZED=Yes.
getExpiringLeases
Active leases sorted by days-until-expiry — acquisition signal feed.
searchLeaseUnits
Oil & Gas Units (active+inactive) — pass unitStatus to scope.
searchPSFLands
Permanent School Fund Lands by county/bbox/near/landClass.
searchEasements
Miscellaneous Easements by bbox/near/easementType (no county column upstream).
searchOffshoreStructures
Offshore Inventory Public — filter by bbox/near/structureType.
getNominatedTracts
Oil & Gas lease-sale nominated tracts — small dataset (~56).
getServiceInfo
Schema, fields, and record counts for any of the 8 GLO services.

Requirements

ENABLE_ENERGY_APIS
Set ENABLE_ENERGY_APIS=true to allow connector toggles.

Quick Setup Guide

Follow these steps to connect your AI agents to this connector

Set ENABLE_ENERGY_APIS=true for your deployment.

Open /mcp and turn on Texas GLO under Energy connectors.

Call the tx-glo MCP tool — start with method=searchActiveLeases or method=getExpiringLeases.

Connect to Your AI Assistant

Choose your AI assistant below for specific setup instructions

Follow these steps to connect Texas General Land Office to Claude:

Step 1: Open Claude Settings

Launch Claude → Click the profile button (bottom left) → Navigate to Settings

Step 2: Access Connectors

Scroll down to the Connectors tab → Navigate to the bottom → Click “Add Custom Connector”

Step 3: Name Your Connector

Enter any name you'd like for this connector

Step 4: Get the Connector URL

Step 5: Add the Connector

Paste the URL in the “Remote MCP Server URL” text box → Click Add

Step 6: Start Using

Your connector is now ready to use in Claude

Follow these steps to connect Texas General Land Office to ChatGPT:

Step 1: Enable Developer Mode

Go to Settings → Connectors → Advanced → Enable Developer mode

Step 2: Create New Connector

Go back to Connectors page → Click “Create” (top right)

Step 3: Name Your Connector

Enter any name you'd like for this connector (descriptions are optional)

Step 4: Get the Connector URL

Step 5: Add the URL

Paste the URL in the “MCP Server URL” text box

Step 6: Set Authentication

Click the authentication dropdown → Select “No authentication” (PatchOps handles authentication internally)

Step 7: Create the Connector

Click “I understand and want to continue” checkbox → Press Create

Step 8: Using the Connector

Start a new chat → Click the + button (left of text box) → Open dropdown → Hover over three dots labeled “More” → Select your connector

Instructions for connecting Texas General Land Office to GitHub Copilot:

Coming Soon

Detailed setup instructions for GitHub Copilot will be added here.

For other MCP-compatible platforms:

Step 1: Get the Connector URL

Step 2: Add to Configuration

Add this configuration to your MCP settings file. Replace the URL with your specific connector URL from the /mcp page:

"Texas General Land Office-MCP": {
  "url": "https://patchops.ai/api/mcp/...",
  "type": "http"
}

Example Configuration

Here’s an example using PatchOps MCP:

"PatchOps-MCP": {
  "url": "https://patchops.ai/api/mcp/...",
  "type": "http"
}