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Hale conveys the minerals under a tract to Perez but validly reserves the exclusive executive right. Perez receives the bonus, delay-rental, and royalty rights, subject to a separate NPRI owned by Reed. There is no existing lease, and no consent or joinder provision restricts the executive right. Who has authority to grant a new oil-and-gas lease of these minerals?
Correct answer: D - Hale, as holder of the exclusive executive right.
An acquisition authorization identifies the NE 1/4 of the SW 1/4 of a regular section. The proposed lease instead describes the SW 1/4 of the NE 1/4 of that same section. The section, township, range, and principal meridian otherwise match, and both descriptions contain 40 nominal acres. What has changed between the authorization and the proposed lease?
Correct answer: B - The location; the descriptions identify different tracts of equal nominal acreage.
An owner claims a landman had apparent authority to sign a lease for a company despite an undisclosed internal restriction on that authority. The governing agency rule requires reasonable reliance on a manifestation attributable to the principal, not merely the agent's assertion. Which evidence most directly supports the owner's claim?
Correct answer: D - The company's authorized vice president told the owner the landman could sign.
On March 1, Barton accepts separate consideration for a signed, enforceable option giving Juniper the right to lease specified minerals by delivering a conforming written exercise notice through March 31. On March 12, Barton announces that the offer is revoked because another company offered more. No contractual ground for ending the option has occurred. Juniper still wants the lease. What action preserves its right to accept?
Correct answer: A - Deliver a conforming exercise notice before the option expires.
Two royalty deeds cover the same tract. One expressly grants Morgan a fixed 1/16 of gross production under all present and future leases. The other grants Avery one-half of whatever royalty the lessor reserves in each lease. Both interests are perpetual and nonparticipating. A replacement lease increases the lessor's royalty rate. With production volume and price unchanged, whose production share increases solely because of the higher lease royalty?
Correct answer: B - Avery only; Morgan's fixed production fraction remains unchanged.
Summit owns 60% of the working interest in a lease covering all minerals under one tract. The lease royalty is 25% of total tract production. A fixed 1/16 NPRI is payable out of that lessor royalty. Summit has also granted an overriding royalty equal to 3% of total tract production, charged entirely against Summit's interest; the other working-interest owners bear none of it. There are no other burdens. What is Summit's net revenue interest in total tract production?
Correct answer: A - 0.42000
A lease administrator flags a paid-up oil-and-gas lease as expired because no drilling or annual rental payment occurred during its first year. The lease expressly eliminates annual delay rentals and grants a three-year primary term without requiring drilling during that term. The bonus was paid, and no other terminating event has occurred. How should the landman correct the lease record?
Correct answer: A - Keep the lease active and retain its primary-term expiration date.
Before a new lease is taken, the title runsheet shows Nolan owning an undivided 5/8 mineral interest in a surveyed 240-acre tract. A later effective deed conveys to Silva "one-fifth of all Grantor's mineral interest in the described tract." Nolan makes no other conveyance or reservation. How many net mineral acres remain owned by Nolan?
Correct answer: C - 120 net mineral acres
A client has authorized a landman to offer up to $700 per net mineral acre but has instructed the landman to keep that ceiling confidential. The current offer is $550. The mineral owner asks, "Is $550 the most your client has authorized?" Which reply preserves confidentiality without making a false statement?
Correct answer: C - "Our offer is $550; the client's negotiating limit is confidential."
During a well-site access visit, a landman's hydrogen sulfide monitor alarms. A worker points out that the earlier rotten-egg odor has disappeared and suggests completing the visit. The landman has no respiratory protective equipment. What is the appropriate immediate response to these conflicting indications?
Correct answer: C - Leave by the designated evacuation route and report the alarm from safety.
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