Interests All of the following shall be referred to in this Agreement collectively as the "Interests" and individually as an "Interest":
(a) The oil, gas and mineral leases in the states and counties described on Exhibit "A" attached hereto (collectively, the "Leases"), including, without limitation, working interests, overriding royalty interests, royalty interests and any other interests of a similar nature affecting the lands covered by the Leases (collectively, the "Lands").
(b) The oil and gas xxxxx described on Exhibit "A" (individually, a "Well," and collectively, the "Xxxxx"), together with all oil, natural gas, casinghead gas, drip gasoline, natural gas liquids, condensate and other minerals produced from such Xxxxx.
(c) All unitization, communitization, pooling, agreements, working interest units created by operating agreements, partnership agreements and orders covering the Leases and Lands, or any portion thereof, and the units and pooled or communitized areas created thereby (collectively, the "Units").
(d) The tangible personal property, tools, machinery, materials, pipelines, plants, gathering systems, equipment, platforms and facilities, fixtures and improvements, which are directly incident or attributable to or underlie the Leases, Lands, Xxxxx or Units with the production, transportation, treatment, sale or disposal of hydrocarbons or water produced therefrom or attributable thereto, (collectively, the "Equipment").
(e) The general and limited partnership interests in Castle Texas Exploration Limited Partnership ("CTELP") and Castle Texas Oil and Gas Limited Partnership ("CTOGLP") (collectively the "Limited Partnerships") described on Exhibit "A" attached hereto, including, without limitation, all Leases, Lands, Xxxxx (together with all oil, natural gas, casinghead gas, drip gasoline, natural gas liquids, condensate and other minerals produced from such Xxxxx), Units, and/or Equipment owned by the Limited Partnerships.
(f) The licenses, permits, contracts, agreements and other instruments owned by Sellers (other than bonds posted by Sellers) which concern and relate to any of the Leases, Lands, Xxxxx, Units and/or Equipment, INSOFAR AND ONLY INSOFAR as same concern or relate to the Leases, Lands, Xxxxx, Units and/or Equipment, or the operation thereof; including, without limitation, oil, gas and condensate purchase and sale contracts; permits; rights-of-way; easements; licenses; servitudes; estates; surface leases; farmin and farmout agreements; division orders and transfer orders; bottomhole agreements; dry hole agreements; area-of-mutual interest agreements; salt water disposal agreements; acreage contribution agreements; operating agreements; balancing agreements and unit agreements; pooling agreements; pooling orders; communitization agreements; processing, gathering, compression and transportation agreements; facilities or equipment leases relating thereto or used or held for use in connection with the ownership or operation thereof or with the production, treatment, sale or disposal of hydrocarbons; and all other contracts and agreements related to the Leases, Lands, Xxxxx and/or Equipment.
(g) Subject to Section 1.3 below, originals or copies of all computer tapes and discs, files, records, information or data relating to the Interests in the possession of Sellers, including, without limitation, title records (including abstracts of title, title opinions, certificate of title and title curative documents), production records and files, contracts, correspondence, production records, electric logs, core data, pressure data, decline curves, graphical production curves, drilling reports, well completion reports, drill stem test charts and reports, regulatory reports, and all related materials, INSOFAR AND ONLY INSOFAR as the foregoing items constitute materials that may be lawfully conveyed to Buyers (i.e., the materials are not subject to a proprietary agreement precluding their transfer to Buyers), and, to the extent transferable, all other contract rights, intangible rights (excluding Sellers' trademarks and service marks), inchoate rights, choses in action, rights under warranties made by prior owners, manufacturers, vendors or other third parties, and rights accruing under applicable statutes of limitation or prescription, attributable to the Interests.
(h) All payments, and all rights to receive payments, with respect to the ownership of the production of hydrocarbons from or the conduct of operations on the Interests accruing after the Effective Time.
Certain Interests (a) Except as disclosed in Schedule 3.20, no officer or director of ERC, the LLC or any Subsidiary and no relative or spouse (or relative of such spouse) who resides with, or is a dependent of, any such officer or director:
(i) has any direct or indirect financial interest in any competitor, supplier or customer of ERC, the LLC or any Subsidiary, provided, however, that the ownership of securities representing no more than one percent of the outstanding voting power of any competitor, supplier or customer, and which are listed on any national securities exchange or traded actively in the national over-the-counter market, shall not be deemed to be a "financial interest" so long as the person owning such securities has no other connection or relationship with such competitor, supplier or customer;
(ii) owns, directly or indirectly, in whole or in part, or has any other interest in any tangible or intangible property which ERC, the LLC or any Subsidiary uses or has used in the conduct of its business or otherwise; or
(iii) has outstanding any material indebtedness to ERC, the LLC or any Subsidiary.
(b) Except as disclosed in Schedule 3.20(b), no officer or director of ERC, the LLC or any Subsidiary and no relative or spouse (or relative of such spouse) who resides with, or is a dependent of, any such officer or director has outstanding any indebtedness to the ERC Shareholders.
(c) Except as disclosed in Schedule 3.20(c), neither ERC, the LLC nor any Subsidiary has any liability or any other obligation of any nature whatsoever to any officer, director or shareholder of ERC, the LLC or any Subsidiary or to any relative or spouse (or relative of such spouse) who resides with, or is a dependent of, any such officer, director or shareholder.
