The Law of Oil and Gas

by Hemingway, Richard W.

• ISBN13: 9780314889416
• ISBN10: 0314889418
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1992-01-01
• Publisher: West Academic

Summary

Definition of Mineral Estate, Substances, Ownership; Power to Lease, Delay Rentals, Bonus, Royalty Before and After Production, Nature of Royalty; Conveyances of Royalty and Mineral Interests; Conveyances, Partition and Adverse Possession of the Mineral Estate; Surface and Subsurface Trespass; Leases from Owners of Concurrent, Successive or Restricted Interests; Oil and Gas Lease: Nature, Duration, Keeping Alive With Delay Rentals, Operations, Production; Royalty and Other Clauses, Market Value, Proceeds, Proportionate Reduction, Minimum Royalty Division and Transfer Orders; Covenants to Protect, Develop and Administer the Lease; Transfers by the Lessor and Lessee, Subject to An Outstanding Lease, Apportionment and Non-Apportionment, Entirety Clause, Pooling, Contracts to Assign the Lease, Farmouts, Creation of Non-Cost Bearing Interests, Divisibility of Covenants; Various Forms of Conveyances and Oil and Gas Leases.

Table of Contents

Preface	v
Westlaw Overview	vii
Mineral Estate: Definition	1	(34)
Creation of Interests in the Oil and Gas Mineral Estate by the Landowner	35	(75)
Conveyances, Partition, and Adverse Possession of the Mineral Estate	110	(55)
Trespass, Surface and Sub-surface, and Third Party Claims	165	(34)
The Oil and Gas Lease---Leases From Owners of Concurrent, Successive, or Restricted Interests	199	(55)
The Oil and Gas Lease---Duration	254	(102)
The Oil and Gas Lease---Royalty and Other Particular Lease Clauses	356	(89)
Covenants of the Lessee to Protect, Develop, and Administer the Lease	445	(50)
Transfers by the Lessor and by the Lessee	495	(172)
APPENDICES
I. Conveyances and Reservations of Mineral Interests	559	(7)
II. Conveyances and Reservations of Royalty Interests	566	(5)
III. Oil and Gas Leases on Privately Owned Lands	571	(66)
IV. Miscellaneous Forms	637	(10)
V. Energy Law Research on Westlaw	647	(20)
Table of Cases	667	(34)
Index	701