Oklahoma Oil Gas Leases

An Assignment of an Oil, Gas and Mineral Lease is a document in which the original Lessee, and or their successors, assign either all or part of their working interest and/or net revenue interest that they own in that lease. This is leasehold interest. You can also assign or reserve interest in wellbores.

Further, annual rental fees for onshore oil and gas leases $1.50 per acre during the first five years and $2 per acre each year thereafter allow drilling companies to hold and explore mineral leases for the price of a cup of coffee.

Wellbore. An assignment can be limited to the wellbore of a well. A wellbore limitation means that the assignor is assigning only those rights to production from the wellbore of a certain well, arguably at the total depth it existed at the time of the assignment.

Not necessarily. Where your royalty is based on volume of production and your lease is for a period of years and as much longer as oil and gas is produced, or similar language is contained in your lease, your lease may not automatically expire at the end of its primary term.

Assignment is a legal term whereby an individual, the assignor, transfers rights, property, or other benefits to another known as the assignee. This concept is used in both contract and property law. The term can refer to either the act of transfer or the rights/property/benefits being transferred.

Landowners who are considering purchasing, or have already purchased a property can search their county Register of Deeds registry to determine if an oil and gas lease is recorded.A search of the public records at the county register of deeds office is necessary.

Oil and gas lease is an agreement between a mineral owner (lessor) and a company (lessee) in which the owner grants the company the right to explore, drill and produce oil, gas, and other minerals below the surface of the earth.

To ratify a lease means that the landowner and oil & gas producer, as current lessor and lessee of the land, agree (or re-agree) to the terms of the existing lease.In all likelihood, the lessee (usually the current producer) believes that you have legitimate grounds to break the existing lease.