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royalty interest

royalty interest. Oil & gas. A share of production — or the value or proceeds of production, free of the costs of production — when and if there is production. • A royalty interest is usu. expressed as a fraction (such as 1/6). A royalty-interest owner has no right to operate the property and therefore

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overriding royalty

A share of either production or revenue from production (free of the costs of production) carved out of a lessee’s interest under an oil-and-gas lease. • Overriding-royalty interests are often used to compensate those who have helped structure a drilling venture. An overriding-royalty interest ends when the underlying lease terminates. [Cases: Mines and Minerals 74.

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mineral interest

mineral interest. Oil & gas. The right to search for, develop, and remove minerals from land or to receive a royalty based on the production of minerals. • Mineral interests are granted by an oil-and-gas lease. — Also termed mineral right. See FEE INTEREST; SUBSURFACE INTEREST; SURFACE INTEREST . [Cases: Mines and Minerals 47, 62.1,

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working interest

working interest. Oil & gas. The rights to the mineral interest granted by an oil-and-gas lease, so called because the lessee acquires the right to work on the leased property to search, develop, and produce oil and gas, as well as the obligation to pay all costs. See ROYALTY(2). — Also termed leasehold interest; operating

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term interest

term interest. Oil & gas. A mineral interest or royalty interest that is not perpetual. • A term interest may be for a fixed term (e.g., for 25 years) or defeasible (e.g., for 25 years and so long thereafter as there is production from the premises).

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