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The owner of an unleased mineral estate grants Lena 'one-fourth of the royalty reserved in any future oil and gas lease,' but expressly withholds development, leasing, bonus, and delay-rental rights. No other provision modifies that grant. Before soliciting a new lease, a landman must classify Lena's interest. Which description is accurate?
Correct answer: B - A floating nonparticipating royalty interest, without the executive right.
Title shows that Maren owned an undivided three-fourths mineral interest throughout a 240-acre tract. She then conveyed 'one-third of all the mineral interest I own in this tract' to Evan. There have been no later transfers or partitions. Maren now offers to lease her entire remaining mineral interest. How many net mineral acres should be credited to her lease?
Correct answer: A - 120 net mineral acres
A Texas rancher's existing cattle-handling facility would be substantially impaired by a proposed well pad. An engineer identifies a reasonable, customary alternative pad location that would recover the minerals without disrupting the facility. No express agreement resolves the surface-use conflict. For an accommodation-doctrine claim, what additional showing must the rancher make?
Correct answer: A - No reasonable alternative would allow the rancher to continue that existing surface use.
During a North Dakota lease negotiation, a company offers a three-year term at $600 per net mineral acre. The owner replies, 'I accept your offer only if the term is reduced to two years.' The company has neither agreed to that change nor acted on the reply. What has the owner's response accomplished?
Correct answer: D - It makes a counteroffer requiring the company's assent to the changed term.
An oil and gas lease states that the original lessee remains liable for its obligations after assignment unless the lessor expressly releases it in writing. The lessor signs a document consenting to assignment to a new lessee; it contains no release. The assignee later fails to perform a required gate repair. The original lessee argues that the consent ended its liability. What is the effect of the consent?
Correct answer: C - Consent allows the transfer; it does not supply the express release required by the lease.
One lease covers East Tract and West Tract. Its controlling addendum releases acreage outside a producing pooled unit when the primary term ends and limits retained acreage to depths from the surface through 8,000 feet. East Tract is validly pooled; West Tract is not. At expiration, a well elsewhere in East Tract's unit produces in paying quantities from 7,200 feet. No other holding provision applies. Identify the leasehold retained under these terms.
Correct answer: B - East Tract, at all depths from the surface through 8,000 feet.
A royalty owner's 100-acre tract is fully included in a valid 400-acre pooled unit that allocates production strictly by acreage. The owner holds one-half of the tract's minerals and leases that entire interest at a three-sixteenths royalty. No nonparticipating royalty or other allocation reduces the owner's share. Which royalty decimal belongs on the owner's division order for total unit production?
Correct answer: C - 0.0234375
Production stops during a lease's secondary term. A savings clause maintains the lease if reworking begins within 60 days after cessation and then continues with reasonable diligence until production is restored. Genuine reworking begins on day 42 and remains continuous and diligent. On day 75, production has not yet resumed. How should the land department classify the lease at that point?
Correct answer: B - Maintained under the reworking clause while the diligent operations continue.
A Texas owner delivers a mineral deed to Rowan on April 2, but Rowan does not record it. On April 10, the same owner delivers a competing deed for the same interest to Ellis, who pays the full purchase price without actual, record, or inquiry notice of Rowan's deed. Rowan records on April 12; Ellis records on April 15. Under Texas Property Code Section 13.001, which title position is supported?
Correct answer: D - Ellis has priority because Ellis purchased for value without notice of Rowan's deed.
At a Texas closing, title examination confirms that a third party owns minerals under a valid, earlier recorded reservation. The seller has never acquired those minerals. To avoid obtaining a conveyance from that owner, the seller offers to replace the proposed special warranty with a general warranty while leaving the granting language unchanged. How should this proposal be evaluated?
Correct answer: A - The warranty protection may broaden, but the third party still owns the reserved minerals.
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