Texas General Land Office

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Texas General Land Office GIS — state-lands oil & gas (leases, units, PSF, easements, offshore) plus the coastal/environmental/land catalog: upland & coastal leases, submerged tracts, beach access, navigation districts, ESI shoreline, habitat areas, and offshore boundaries.

What is Texas General Land Office?

Texas General Land Office (TxGLO) public GIS service. Oil & gas: active and inactive leases with 42-field records — lease number, status, primary-term and effective dates, original/current gross/net acres, lessee, lease type, royalty rates for oil/gas/sulphur, depth restrictions, field name, county, and polygon geometry — plus 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). Coastal/environmental/land: upland surface leases (~1.6K), coastal lease points (~9.2K) and polygons, state submerged tracts (~11K), public beach & bay access (~607), state agency lands, navigation districts, priority protection habitat areas, Environmental Sensitivity Index shoreline (~48K lines), in-situ burn exclusion areas, plus boundary overlays (Coastal Zone, Three Marine League / Three Nautical Mile lines, dispersant pre-approval zone). 23 ArcGIS FeatureServers in total, no auth. 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).
searchUplandLeases
Upland surface leases (~1.6K) — filter by leaseStatus, activity, lessee, purposeClass.
searchSubmergedTracts
State submerged tracts (~11K) — filter by tractNumber, waterBody, landType, rmc.
searchBeachAccess
Public beach & bay access (~607) — filter by county, siteType, accessType.
searchCoastalLeases
Coastal lease points (~9.2K) — filter by leaseClass, gloId, bbox, near.
searchStateAgencyLands
State agency lands (~246) — filter by county, landType, name, waterBody.
searchNavigationDistricts
Navigation districts (~76) — filter by districtName, landType.
searchPriorityHabitatAreas
Priority protection habitat areas (~836) — filter by priority (HIGH/MEDIUM/LOW).
searchEsiShoreline
Environmental Sensitivity Index shoreline (~48K lines) — filter by esi, shoreType, bbox.
searchInSituBurnExclusion
In-situ burn exclusion areas (~73) — filter by type, name, bbox, near.
getCoastalLeasePolygons
Coastal lease polygon footprints (~324) as GeoJSON.
getCoastalZone
Texas Coastal Zone boundary as GeoJSON for map overlay.
getThreeMarineLeagueLine
Three Marine League Line (state offshore boundary) as GeoJSON.
getThreeNauticalMileLine
Three Nautical Mile Line boundary as GeoJSON.
getDispersantZone
Dispersant use pre-approval zone (~61) as GeoJSON for spill response.
getServiceInfo
Schema, fields, and record counts for any of the 23 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"
}