Common use of Except for Buyer Clause in Contracts

Except for Buyer. Processor's obligation to make proper settlement, accounting and distribution of proceeds to all interest owners as provided above for Gas delivered hereunder, neither party hereto shall be liable for any failure to perform the terms of this Agreement when such failure is due to "force majeure" as hereinafter defined. The term "force majeure" as employed in this Agreement shall mean acts of God, strikes, lockouts or industrial disputes or disturbances, arrests and restraints from rulers or people, interruptions by government or court orders, present and future valid orders of any regulatory body having proper jurisdiction, acts of the public enemy, wars, riots, blockades, insurrections, inability to secure materials, including inability to secure materials by reason of allocations promulgated by authorized governmental agencies, epidemics, landslides, lightning, earthquakes, fires, storms, floods, washouts, explosions, breakage or accident to machinery or lines of pipe, freezing of xxxxx or pipelines, inability to obtain easements or rights-of-way, the making of repairs or alterations to pipelines or plants, or any other cause whether of the kind herein enumerated or otherwise, not reasonably within the control of the party claiming "force majeure", the same shall, so far as possible, be remedied with all reasonable dispatch. The settlement of strikes or lockouts or industrial disputes or disturbances shall be entirely within the discretion of the party having the difficulty, and the above requirement that any "force majeure" shall be remedied with all reasonable dispatch, shall not require the settlement of strikes, lockouts or industrial disputes or disturbances by acceding to the demands of any opposing party therein when such course is inadvisable in the discretion of the party having the difficulty.

Except for Buyer. Processor's obligation obligations to make proper settlement, accounting and distribution of proceeds to all interest owners as provided above payment for Gas delivered hereunder, neither party hereto shall be liable for any failure to perform the terms of this Agreement when such failure is due to "force majeure" as hereinafter defined. The term "force majeure" as employed in this Agreement shall mean acts of God, strikes, lockouts or industrial disputes or disturbances, arrests and restraints from rulers or people, interruptions by government or court orders, present and future valid orders of any regulatory body having proper jurisdiction, acts of the public enemy, wars, warss riots, blockades, insurrections, inability to secure materials, including inability to secure materials by reason of allocations promulgated by authorized governmental agencies, epidemics, landslides, lightning, earthquakes, fires, storms, floods, washouts, explosions, breakage or accident to machinery or lines of pipe, freezing of xxxxx or pipelines, inability to obtain easements or rights-of-way, the making of repairs or alterations to pipelines or plants, or any other cause whether of the kind herein enumerated or otherwise, not reasonably within the control of the party claiming "force majeure", the same shall, so far as possible, be remedied with all reasonable dispatch. The settlement of strikes or lockouts or industrial disputes or disturbances shall be entirely within the discretion of the party having the difficulty, and the above requirement that any "force majeure" shall be remedied with all reasonable dispatch, shall not require the settlement settle­ment of strikes, lockouts or industrial disputes or disturbances by acceding to the demands of any opposing party therein when such course is inadvisable in the discretion of the party having the difficulty.