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The Mineral Leasing Act of 1920 30 U.S.C. § 181 et seq. is a United States federal law that authorizes and governs leasing of public lands for developing deposits of coal, petroleum, natural gas and other hydrocarbons, in addition to phosphates, sodium, sulfur, and potassium in the United States.
Oil and gas producing companies do not always own the land they drill on. Often, the company (the lessee) leases the mineral rights from the owner (the lessor). Major points in a lease include the description of the property, the term (duration), and the payments to the lessor. [6]
Lease terms typically include a price to be paid to the mineral rights owner for the minerals to be extracted, and a set of circumstances under which those minerals are to be extracted. For instance, a mineral rights owner might request that the company minimize any noise and light pollution when extracting the minerals.
the Mineral Materials Act of 1947, 30 U.S.C. § 601, et. seq., [30] which provides for the sale or public giveaway of certain minerals, such as sand or gravel; the Multiple Mineral Use Act of 1954 (Multiple Mineral Development Act), 30 U.S.C. Ch. 12, [31] which provided for the development of multiple minerals on the same tracts of public land;
The central legal standard is the Federal Mining Act (Bundesberggesetz). In Austria the legal basis is quite similar to German law. The primary legislation since 1 January 1999 has been the Mineral Raw Material Act (Mineralrohstoffgesetz) or MinroG. In Switzerland mining law is a cantonal business and governed by cantonal law.
Whether or not the phrase "hell or high water" is explicitly written, the general meaning of it has been included in a majority of equipment leasing contracts over the past few decades. [3] The clause requires that the lessee assumes virtually the entirety of the risk associated with the rented equipment, even in extreme cases.
In the oil and gas industry, a farmout agreement is an agreement entered into by the owner of one or more mineral leases, called the "farmor", and another company who wishes to obtain a percentage of ownership of that lease or leases in exchange for providing services, called the "farmee." The typical service described in farmout agreements is ...
Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act; Other short titles: Mineral Leasing Act of 1920 Amendments: Long title: An Act to amend section 28 of the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920, and to authorize a trans-Alaska oil pipeline, and for other purposes. Nicknames: Federal Lands Right-of-Way Act: Enacted by: the 93rd United States Congress: Effective ...