This form is used when the Lessor desires to sell, subdivide, or partition all or a part of the lands covered by the Lease (the Lands ), and has requested a partial waiver of surface use of certain portions of the Lands subject to the Lease, and a waiver is agreeable to Lessee. This Agreement relates solely to the surface use and does not in any other way affect or diminish the Lessee's rights, interests and estate under the Lease.
Montana Agreement Waiving Surface Use by Oil and Gas Lessee
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A mineral lease is a contractual agreement between the owner of a mineral estate (known as the lessor), and another party such as an oil and gas company (the lessee). The lease gives an oil or gas company the right to explore for and develop the oil and gas deposits in the area described in the lease.
Historically, mineral owners (?lessors?) and landmen/oil companies (?lessees?) spend most of their time focusing and negotiating the bonus payment, primary term and royalty provisions of an oil and gas lease. These provisions are important, but they represent only a small number of the important elements of the lease.
An oil or gas lease is a legal document where a landowner grants an individual or company the right to extract oil or gas from beneath the landowner's property. Courts generally find leases to be legally binding, so it is very important that you understand all the terms of a lease before you sign it.
Yes, subsurface rights are considered real property. This includes the rights to any minerals, oil, gas, or other natural resources that may be located beneath the surface of the land. These rights can be bought, sold, leased, or inherited like any other real property.
Subsurface rights are rights to the earth below the land, and any substances found beneath the land's surface.
Subsurface means in a well, or below the surface of the ground. Seismic surveys are used to find subsurface rock structures that may contain hydrocarbons. Directional wells can be used to drill multiple wells from a common drilling pad or to reach a subsurface location beneath land where drilling cannot be done.
An estimated 11.7 million acres of the private land in the state of Montana is split estate, meaning the surface land rights are privately owned and the subsurface mineral rights are federally owned.
A surface use agreement, which is also sometimes referred to as a land use agreement, is an agreement between the landowner and an oil and gas company or an operator for the use of the landowner's land in the development of the oil and gas.
