Utah Rental Lease Pooling Provision

It also records a "Declaration of Pooling" or similarly named document in the land records office at the local Courthouse. The declaration shows the boundaries of the pooling unit and identifies all the landowners and amount of property each landowner actually has in the unit.

Pooling Clause: Joining the Leased Land with Other Land The area formed is called a pool or sometimes a pooled unit. Pooling permits the lessee to prevent waste by avoiding unnecessary drilling and to protect the correlative rights of the mineral owners in the common reservoir.

As noted above, while pooling focuses on efficiently combining lands for the purpose of obtaining a drilling permit to drill a single well, unitization focuses on the combination of interests covering a larger area to facilitate development of all or part of a common source of supply (i.e. a field/reservoir).

Once a Pooling Order is entered, you will receive a copy of the Order, which will state your options as an owner of an interest in the unit. Typically, the Order will afford you a number of options of a cash bonus and royalty payments on production based on the fair market value of your interest.

By the law, Utah tenants are required to abide in a certain way. They must follow certain procedures as outlined by the law as well. Tenants also have certain rights that they are entitled to, as well as things they are responsible for. The tenant has the right to dwell in a safe and sanitary housing unit.

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.

Pooling is the combination of all or portions of multiple oil and gas leases to form a unit for the drilling of a single oil and/or gas well.The oil and gas company can lease these under separate leases and separate terms and then pool these parcels to drill the well.