LEGACY01 - Basic Oil and Gas Forms
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This collection of forms can be an essential tool for all landmen, landowners, mineral rights owners and attorneys. The forms in this collection are intended to be easy to use, and cover a variety of transactions. They are intended to help you automate your form generation process and give your forms a sense of consistency.
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THE FORMS ARE DIVIDED INTO TWENTY-EIGHT (28) ALPHABETICAL TOPICAL SECTIONS WHICH CONTAIN COLLECTIVELY OVER 270 FORMS. SEE THE INDEX FOR LEGACY-01 FOR A LIST OF THE AVAILABLE FORMS, BY TOPIC, AND THE NUMBER OF FORMS AVAILABLE.
BASIC OIL AND GAS FORMS PACKAGE (LEGACY-01)
MASTER INDEX
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Alabama
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
Florida
Georgia
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming
AGENCY AND POWERS OF ATTORNEY
- Agreement Designating Agent to Lease Mineral Interests
- Appointment of Agent to Receive Rentals
(By Lessor) - Delay Rental Payment Agreement
(Directing Payment to an Agent) - Direction for Payment of Royalty to Trustee
(By Royalty Owners) - Durable Power of Attorney
(For Limited Purpose of Executing Division Orders and Transfer Orders) - Durable Power of Attorney
(To Execute Oil and Gas Lease) - Durable Special Power of Attorney
(Granting Agent the Right to Execute Oil and Gas Leases, Attendant Instruments, and Deal with Oil and Gas Properties) - General Durable Power of Attorney
(Appointing Agent to Act for Principal Regarding all Property Matters) - General Power of Attorney
(No Durability Provision, Short Form) - Revocation of Power of Attorney
(A Recorded Power of Attorney) - Revocation of Recorded Power of Attorney
AGREEMENTS - CONSULTING AND EMPLOYMENT
- Consulting Agreement
- Consulting Agreement
(With Former Employee) - Employment Agreement
(General) - Employment Agreement
(Incentive Compensation and Stock Bonus) - Employment Agreement
(With Covenant Not to Compete) - Noncompetition Agreement
(Between Employee and Company)
AGREEMENTS - EXPLORATION, JOINT VENTURE, PARTICIPATION
- Exploration Agreement
- Joint Venture Agreement
(Oil and Gas Activities. Long Form) - Joint Venture Agreement
(To Acquire, Own, and Manage Oil and Gas Leases. Short Form) - Participation Agreement
(Single Well) - Participation Agreement
(Turnkey Drilling, and Multiple Wells)
AGREEMENTS – FARMOUT AND TERM ASSIGNMENTS
- Farmout Agreement
(Providing for a Single Well Producer to Earn an Assignment) - Farmout Agreement
(Providing for Multiple Wells with Dry Hole Earning and Assignment) - Farmout Agreement
(Providing for Multiple Wells with Production Required to Earn an Assignment) - Farmout Agreement
(Providing for Single Well, with Dry Hole Earning an Assignment) - Farmout Agreement
(Short Form) - Term Assignment
(Long Form) - Term Assignment and Agreement
(Non-Producing Portion of HBP Leases) - Term Assignment of Oil and Gas Leases
(Multiple Assignors. Continuous Development)
AGREEMENTS - GEOPHYSICAL AND SEISMIC
- Agreement Granting Permission to Conduct Seismic Activities
(With Owners of Multiple Tracts of Land) - Agreement to Purchase Seismic Data with Option to Purchase Lease
(With Owner of the Lease) - Geophysical Exploration Agreement
(With Mineral Owner, with Option to Purchase Oil and Gas Lease) - Geophysical Permit
- Option Agreement
(Granting Exclusive Option to Purchase Seismic Data and Oil and Gas Leases from Lease Owner) - Seismic Exploration and Option to Lease Agreement
(Long Form) - Seismic Option Agreement with Option to Purchase Interest in Oil and Gas Leases
(From Lessee) - Seismic Option and Lease Agreement
- Seismic Permit
(Allowing Third Party to Conduct Seismic Operation on Grantor's Lease) - Seismic Permit and Option to Lease
(With Mineral Owner)
AGREEMENTS – MISCELLANEOUS
- Administrative Services Agreement
(To Manage Oil and Gas Properties Owned by a Subsidiary of the Company) - Agreement for Payment on Casinghead Gas
(Between Gas Purchaser and Lease Operator) - Deed of Trust, Mortgage, Security Agreement, Assignment of Production, and Financing Statement of Oil and Gas Properties
(Including After-Acquired Title) - Delay Rental Payment Agreement
(Directing Payment to an Agent) - Joint Bidding Agreement
(To Bid on Federal/State Lands Offered for Lease) - Permit Agreement
(Mineral) - Permit Agreement
(Surface) - Stipulation Governing Payment of Nonparticipating Royalty
(Under Segregated Tracts Covered by One Oil and Gas Lease) - Stipulation of Ownership of Mineral Interest
(Mineral Ownership in Specific Lands)
AGREEMENTS – SURFACE USE
- Agreement
(Between Operator and Surface Owner Concerning Construction of Ramps for Circular Irrigation Systems) - Surface Damage Agreement
(Between Lessee and Surface Owner) - Surface Lease
(For Purposes of Storing or Transporting Oil and Gas from off Premises) - Surface Lease Agreement
- Surface Use Agreement
(Establishing Amounts Lessee will Pay for Road and Location Damages) - Surface Use Agreement
(Operator’s Production Equipment to be located in Cellars)
ASSIGNMENTS - ASSIGNMENTS AND BILLS OF SALE
- Assignment
(Undivided Interest in Producing Lease) - Assignment and Bill of Sale
- Assignment and Bill of Sale
(All Assignor's Interest in Multiple Producing Leases) - Assignment and Bill of Sale
(All of Assignor's Interest in a Producing Lease, (Short Form) - Assignment and Bill of Sale
(All of Assignor's Interest in Multiple Producing Leases, No Warranty. Short Form) - Assignment and Bill of Sale
(Well Bore. Short Form) - Assignment and Bill of Sale
(To Life Tenant and Remainderman) - Assignment and Bill of Sale
(Undivided Interest in Multiple Producing Leases. Short Form) - Wellbore Assignment, Conveyance, Bill of Sale, and Release
ASSIGNMENTS - OIL AND GAS LEASE
- Assignment
(All of Assignor's Interest in a Nonproducing Lease) - Assignment
(All of Assignor's Interest in a Part of Undeveloped Lands Covered by Multiple Leases) - Assignment
(Nonproducing Lease on Part of Lands Subject to Lease) - Assignment of After Payout Interest
- Assignment of Oil and Gas Lease
(All Assignor’s Undivided Interest in Nonproducing Lease. Short Form) - Assignment of Oil and Gas Lease
(By Original Lessee, Short Form) - Assignment of Oil and Gas Leases
(All Interest in Producing Leases, Reserving an Overriding Royalty Interest) - Assignment of Oil and Gas Leases
(Undivided Interest. Producing. Reservation of Overriding Royalty Interest Before Payout, and a Back-In Working Interest After Payout) - Assignment of Oil and Gas Leases
(With Reservation of Production Payment) - Assignment of Oil and Gas Leases by Shareholders of Dissolved Corporation
- Assignment of Operating Rights Interests
- Assignment of Partial Interest in Oil and Gas Lease
(Reserving an Overriding Royalty Interest) - Assignment of Record Title Interests
- Assignment, Conveyance, and Bill of Sale
(Of all Interest in Described Assets) - Commingling Agreement
(Among Working Owners as to Production from Different Formations out of the same Well Bore, where Leasehold Ownership Varies as to Depth) - Partial Assignment of Interest in Oil and Gas Lease
(Converting Overriding Royalty Interest to Working Interest) - Partial Assignment of Oil and Gas Lease
(Producing Lease. Reservation of Production Payment) - Partial Assignment of Oil, Gas, and Mineral Leases
(Reserving an Overriding Royalty Interest) - Partial Assignment of Production Payment Interest, Reversionary Interests, Option Rights, Leasehold Interests, and Rights Under Management Agreement
- Partition and Assignment
(Of Leasehold Estate) - Reassignment
(Rights Under Term Assignment) - Replacement Assignment
(Replacing Prior Assignment to Correct Errors in Prior Assignment) - Stipulation and Assignment
(Undivided Interest in Leases) - Stipulation of Leasehold Ownership
ASSIGNMENTS - OVERRIDING ROYALTY INTEREST
- Assignment and Conveyance of Overriding Royalty Interest
- Assignment of Overriding Royalty Interest
(Assignor Reserves the Right to Pool the Assigned Interest, Short Form) - Assignment of Overriding Royalty Interest
(By Multiple Assignors) - Assignment of Overriding Royalty Interest
(By Overriding Royalty Interest Owner. No Proportionate Reduction. Single Lease. Short Form) - Assignment of Overriding Royalty Interest
(By Owner of Override) - Assignment of Overriding Royalty Interest
(By Working Interest Owner, Single Lease, Stated Percentage) - Assignment of Overriding Royalty Interest
(Convertible to a Working Interest at Assignee's Option) - Assignment of Overriding Royalty Interest
(For a Term of Years) - Assignment of Overriding Royalty Interest
(Limited as to Depth) - Assignment of Overriding Royalty Interest
(Multiple Leases. Long Form) - Assignment of Overriding Royalty Interest
(Multiple Leases. Short Form. Assignor Reserves Right to Pool Assigned Interest) - Assignment of Overriding Royalty Interest
(Multiple Leases, Interest Assigned is Difference Between Specified Percentage and Existing Leasehold Burdens) - Assignment of Overriding Royalty Interest
(No Proportionate Reduction) - Assignment of Overriding Royalty Interest
(Non-Producing, Single Lease. Reserves the Right to Pool) - Assignment of Overriding Royalty Interest
(Out of Working Interest. Multiple Leases. Limited Warranty. Long Form) - Assignment of Overriding Royalty Interest
(Partially Convertible to a Working Interest at Payout) - Assignment of Overriding Royalty Interest
(Proportionate Reduction) - Assignment of Overriding Royalty Interest
(Short Form) - Assignment of Overriding Royalty Interest
(Single Lease. Proportionate Reduction) - Assignment of Overriding Royalty Interest
(To Become Effective at Payout, with Payout Based on Volume of Oil Produced) - Assignment of Overriding Royalty Interests
(A Percentage of Assignor's Net Revenue Interest, after Deductions of Certain Costs; Effectively a Net Profits Override) - Correction Assignment of Overriding Royalty Interest
(Correcting Lease Description)
ASSIGNMENTS – PRODUCTION PAYMENT
- Assignment of Production Payment
(By Lessee to Third Party) - Assignment of Production Payment
(Measured by Quantity of Production) - Assignment of Production Payment
(Measured by Value Received)
ASSIGNMENTS - VARIOUS
- Assignment and Conveyance of Net Profits Interest
- Assignments of a Reversionary Working Interest
- Assignment of After Payout Working Interest
(And the Right to Convert Overriding Royalty Interest to a Working Interest) - Assignment of Agreement
- Assignment of Carried Working Interest
- Assignment of Contract and Agreement (Form A)
- Assignment of Contracts and Agreements (Form B)
- Assignment of Contract Rights
(To Interests in Oil and Gas Leases) - Assignment of Contracts
(Relating to Sale of a Gas Plant) - Assignment of Easements
(Short Form) - Assignment of Net Profits Interest
- Assignment of Operator's Liens
- Assignment of Pipeline Easements and Rights of Way
- Assignment of Promissory Note and Liens
- Quit Claim Assignment
BILLS OF SALE
- Bill of Sale
(Personal Property and Equipment) - Bill of Sale
(Short Form) - Bill of Sale and Quit Claim
(By Surface Owner of All Interest in Equipment Deemed Abandoned on Surface Owner's Lands) - Bill of Sale for Equipment
(In Consideration of Buyer Assuming Plugging Obligation) - Quit Claim and Bill of Sale of Pipeline
DECLARATIONS
- Declaration of Election by Lessor to Convert Royalty Interest to Working Interest (Provided for by the Terms of an Oil and Gas Lease)
- Declaration of Election to Convert Overriding Royalty Interest to Working Interest
- Declaration that Oil and Gas Lease was Acquired by Agent for Principal
DEEDS - MINERAL
- Correction to Mineral Deed
(As to Interest Conveyed) - Gift Deed of Mineral Interest
(With No Warranty) - Mineral Deed
(Reserving Nonparticipating Royalty Interest) - Mineral Deed
(With Grantor Reserving Executive Rights) - Stipulation of Ownership of Mineral Interest
(In Specific Lands) - Term Mineral Deed
(Undivided Interest)
DEEDS – MISCELLANEOUS
- Agreement Governing Payment of Nonparticipating Royalty
(Under Segregated Tracts Covered by One Oil and Gas Lease) - Commingling and Entirety Agreement
(By Royalty Owners where Royalty Ownership Varies in Lands Subject to Lease) - Deed In Lieu of Prior Deed
(To Correctly State Amount of Interest Conveyed)
DEEDS - QUIT CLAIM
- Disclaimer and Quit Claim of Interest
(In Mineral/Royalty Interest) - Quit Claim Deed
(All of Grantor's Interest) - Quit Claim Deed
(Of Life Estate Interest Created Under a Will, to Remainderman)
DEEDS - ROYALTY
- Gift Deed of Nonparticipating Royalty Interest
(With No Warranty) - Royalty Deed
(With Limited Warranty) - Term Nonparticipating Royalty Deed
(From Mineral Owner) - Term Royalty Deed
- Term Royalty Deed
(For Terms of Existing Lease) - Term Royalty Deed
(Terminates Upon Expiration of Lease)
DEEDS – TRUSTEE’S
- Deed and Assignment
(From Individual to a Trust) - Deed and Assignment
(From Trustee of Blind Trust, to Beneficiaries) - Stipulation and Assignment
(By Trustee) - Trustee’s Deed and Assignment
(Distributing Properties Out of Trust) - Trustee’s Deed and Assignment
(Distribution by Testamentary Trustee to Trust Beneficiaries)
DEEDS - WARRANTY
- Warranty Deed
(Surface and Mineral Interests, with Reservation of all Coal) - Warranty Deed
(Surface. Limited Warranty)
DIVISION ORDERS – TRANSFER ORDERS
- Bonus Receipt, Lease Ratification, and Rental Division Order
(By Mineral Owner) - Division Order
- Division Order
(Standard) - Letter in Lieu of Division and Transfer Order
- NADOA Model Form Division Order
(Adopted 9-95) - Oil and Gas Division Order
- Oil and Gas Transfer Order
- Provisions Which May be Added to a Division or Transfer Order
- Ratification and Rental Division Order
(Original Lessor and Lessee) - Royalty Owner’s Indemnity Agreement
- Royalty Owner’s Statement of Ownership
- Royalty Owner’s Supplement to Purchaser’s Division Order or Transfer Order
MEMORANDUMS
- Corporate Resolution
(Authorize a Lease/Easement) - Memorandum Giving Notice of Existence of Agreement
(For Exploration and Development of Leases) - Memorandum Giving Notice of Exploration Agreement
(Creating an Area of Mutual Interest, which Contains a Preferential Purchase Right) - Memorandum Giving Notice of Gas Purchase Contract
- Memorandum Giving Notice of Oil and Gas Lease
- Memorandum Giving Notice of Seismic Option Agreement and Option to Purchase Oil and Gas Leases
(Between a Lessee and Third Party) - Memorandum of Coal Bed Methane Gas Lease
- Memorandum of Exploration Agreement
(Notice of Preferential Purchase Right) - Memorandum of Gas Purchase Contract
- Memorandum of Oil and Gas Lease
- Memorandum of Operating Agreement
- Memorandum of Seismic Option Agreement and Option to Purchase Oil and Gas Lease
- Memorandum of Seismic Permit and Lease Purchase Option Agreement
- Memorandum of Trust Agreement
NOTICES
- Lessor’s Notice of Election to Take Royalty in Kind
- Notice and Declaration of Gas Storage
(Provided for in Oil and Gas Lease) - Notice By Lessee of Force Majeure
(Events Preventing Ability to Perform Operations on a Lease) - Notice of Amendment to Joint Operating Agreement
- Notice of Amendment to Oil and Gas Lease
(Where Prior Lease was Unrecorded and Memorandum or Notice of Lease was Place of Record) - Notice of Assignment
(By Seller to Buyer Pursuant to Provisions of a Purchase and Sale Agreement) - Notice of Claim of Breach of Oil, Gas, and Mineral Lease
(Claim Being Made by the Original Lessor’s Successor) - Notice of Claim of Mineral Interest
(Dormant Mineral Interest) - Notice of Claimed Ownership
(Of Mineral Interest, by Limitations) - Notice of Compliance with Term Assignment
- Notice of Election to Exercise Preferential Purchase Rights
(Provided in Operating Agreement) - Notice of Expiration of Term Assignment
- Notice of Extension of Lease
(For Recording) - Notice of Extension of Lease
(Letter to Lessor) - Notice of Merger of Working and Overriding Royalty Interests
- Notice of Operating Agreement
- Notice of Payout
(By Party Entitled to Reversionary Interest) - Notice of Revocation of Power of Attorney
(A Recorded Power of Attorney) - Notice of Revocation of Power of Attorney
(An Unrecorded Power of Attorney) - Notice of Royalty Being Taken in Kind
(By Lessee) - Notice of Title Defect
(By Buyer to Seller Pursuant to Provisions of a Purchase and Sale Agreement)
RATIFICATIONS
- Ratification
(Of Prior Deed) - Ratification and Amendment to Oil and Gas Lease
(To Change Depository) - Ratification and Bonus Receipt
(For Party Not Signing Lease, or Who Does Not Own Executive Rights) - Ratification and Consent to Pooling and/or Unitization
- Ratification and Rental Division Order
(From Lessor Lessee) - Ratification of Assignment of Oil and Gas Leases
- Ratification of Confidentiality Agreement
(By Agent, Employee, Contractor, etc.) - Ratification of Oil and Gas Lease
- Ratification of Oil and Gas Lease
(By Nonparticipating Royalty Owner) - Ratification of Oil and Gas Lease
(By Party Claiming an Outstanding or Adverse Interest) - Ratification of Oil and Gas Lease
(With No Rental Payments) - Ratification of Oil, Gas, and Mineral Lease
(By Mineral Owner) - Ratification of Oil, Gas, and Mineral Lease
(By Nonparticipating Royalty Owner to Allow for Pooling) - Ratification of Operating Agreement
- Ratification of Royalty Commingling Agreement
- Ratification of Unit Agreement
- Ratification of Unit Designation
(By Working Interest Owner) - Ratification, Renewal, Revivor, and Extension of Oil, Gas, and Mineral Lease
(To Allow Lessee to Drill Another Well) - Revivor of Oil and Gas Lease
(Where Oil and Gas Lease has Expired)
RELEASES
- Damage Release Agreement
(Drilling Operations) - General Release
(For Damage to Lands) - Mutual Release of Oil and Gas Lease
- Partial Release of Judgment Lien
- Partial Release of Lien
(On Assigned Overriding Royalty Interest) - Partial Release of Lien
(On Leasehold Interests in Part of Lands Subject to Lease) - Partial Release of Mortgage or Deed of Trust
- Partial Release of Mortgage or Deed of Trust
(For Landowner) - Partial Release of Mortgage or Deed of Trust
(On Mineral or Royalty Interest Sold by Grantor) - Partial Release of Mortgage or Deed of Trust
(On Undivided Leasehold Interest) - Partial Release of Oil and Gas Lease
(As to Depth) - Partial Release of Oil and Gas Lease
(As to Part of Lands Covered by Lease) - Partial Release of Oil and Gas Lease
(Multiple Lessees) - Partial Release of Oil and Gas Lease
(Where Lease Grants Lessee the Right to Release) - Rejection of Acceptance of Releases
- Release
(For Surface Damages for Pipeline Right of Way or Easement) - Release
(Lessor’s Release of Claims Against Lessee Arising from Operations) - Release (or Partial Release) of Oil and Gas Lease
(Includes Lessor’s Release of All Claims Against Lessee) - Release
(Surface Damages for Pipeline Easement) - Release and Surface Damages Agreement
(Entered into Prior to Drilling) - Release and Termination of Area of Mutual Interest
- Release by Surface Owner
(Settlement of Surface Damages Resulting from Drilling Operations) - Release for Damages
(Drilling Operations) - Release of Agreement
(Granting Option to Acquire Oil and Gas Lease) - Release of Farmout Agreement
- Release of Judgment Lien
- Release of Judgment Lien
(Abstract of Judgment) - Release of Judgment Lien
(Full Release) - Release of Lien Claim
- Release of Liens
(Vendor’s Lien and Deed of Trust Lien) - Release of Mechanic’s and Materialman’s Lien
- Release of Mortgage or Deed of Trust
(Full Release) - Release of Mortgage or Deed of Trust
(Short Form, Release on Real Estate) - Release of Oil and Gas Lease
(By Present Lessee) - Release of Oil and Gas Lease
(By Subsequent Owner of Lease on Part of Lands Subject to the Lease) - Release of Oil and Gas Lease
(Full Release) - Release of Oil and Gas Lease
(With Reservation of Right to Remove Property) - Release of Operator’s Lien
- Release of Production Payment
(By Lessor) - Release of Production Payment
(By Party Who Was Assigned or Reserved the Production Payment) - Release of Production Payment
(Created by an Assignment) - Release of Production Payment
(Reserved in an Assignment) - Release of Right of Way or Easement
- Surface Owner’s Release
(Settlement of Surface Damages Resulting From Drilling Operations)
WAIVERS
- Waiver of Lease Provision
(By Lessor Who Owns Surface, Prohibiting Drilling Within Specified Distance of Dwelling) - Waiver of Lease Provision
(By Owner of Surface of Lands) - Waiver of Lien Agreement
(By Subcontractor) - Waiver of Lien Claim by Contractor
- Waiver of Lien Claim by Subcontractor
- Waiver of Preferential Right to Purchase