Kysar v. Amoco Production Co.’s Empirical Analysis

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4 federal appellate · 8 district · 13 state decisions

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1. “[A]t its option and without lessor’s joinder or further consent to pool and unitize the leasehold estate and the lessor’s royalty estate ... with the rights of any third parties ... so as to create ... one or more drilling or production units ... each such drilling or production unit shall not exceed 320 acres ... The commencement, drilling, completion of or production from a well, or any portion of a unit created hereunder, shall not have the effect of continuing this lease in force insofar as it covers the land not included within such unit, and no unit shall be created which covers and includes land in more than one Section.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 885 F. Supp. 2d 1082 - Entek GRB, LLC v. Stull Ranches, LLC

2. “Amoco is not entitled by virtue of [the 1992 Communitization Agreement] to use the Bridge Road or the portions of the Back Gate Road that cross the land the Kysars obtained from Keys to access the Sullivan E Well.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Kysar v. Amoco Production Co.

3. “not enjoy a right of access over the surface estate of the portion of the leased area not subject to the [communitization] agreement when the lease did not expressly grant this right.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Kysar v. Amoco Production Co.