This lease rider form may be used when you are involved in a lease transaction, and have made the decision to utilize the form of Oil and Gas Lease presented to you by the Lessee, and you want to include additional provisions to that Lease form to address specific concerns you may have, or place limitations on the rights granted the Lessee in the “standard” lease form.
Wayne Michigan Pugh Clause
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in clause (or shutin royalty clause) traditionally allows the lessee to maintain the lease by making shutin payments on a well capable of producing oil or gas in paying quantities where the oil or gas cannot be marketed, whether due to a lack of pipeline connection or otherwise.
In general terms, the Pugh Clause provides that production from a unitized or pooled area located on or including a portion of the leased lands will not be sufficient to extend the primary term for the entire leasehold.
Simply stated, a retained acreage clause is a clause in an oil and gas lease that sets out how much acreage a lessee may retain for each well it drills on the leased premises after the balance of the lease automatically terminates.
The horizontal Pugh clause operates to release all lands not included in a pooled unit, typically at the end of the primary term or after cessation of continuous drilling operations, if the lease provides for same. The horizontal Pugh clause releases land at the surface as to all depths.
In general terms, the Pugh Clause provides that production from a unitized or pooled area located on or including a portion of the leased lands will not be sufficient to extend the primary term for the entire leasehold.
A vertical Pugh Clause could provide a lease to a particular depth, such as 100 feet below the drilled well. The lessee would be limited to drilling to 100 feet but no further. Conceivably, the lessor could lease property below that range to another entity.
Pugh, who first used such a clause in 1947 to prevent the holding of non-pooled acreage in his client's lease while only certain portions of the lease acreage were being held under pooling agreements.
A Pugh Clause is meant to prevent a lessee from declaring all lands under an oil and gas lease as being held by production, even if production only occurs on a fraction of the property.
The Pugh Clause is named for a Louisiana attorney, Lawrence Pugh, who took on Shell Oil in 1947 on behalf of a lessor. The Louisiana Supreme Court sided with Shell Oil, and Pugh determined that the only way to prevent something similar from happening again was with a special clause in the lease contract.
