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.
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.
1. n. Oil and Gas Business A portion of proceeds from production, specified by contract, and payable to the lessor or farmor, or host country until total payment has reached a predetermined limit specified by contract.
An overriding royalty interest is the right to receive revenue from the production of oil and gas from a well. The overriding royalty is carved out of the lessee's (operator's) working interest and entitles its owner to a fraction of production.
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.
Overriding Royalty Interest (ORRI) a percentage share of production, or the value derived from production, which is free of all costs of drilling and producing, and is created by the lessee or working interest owner and paid by the lessee or working interest owner.
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.