Exhibit 10.4.15
LEASE AGREEMENT
THIS AGREEMENT, made and entered into as of the 1st day of July, 1971,
by and between XXXXX X. XXXXXX and XXXXX X. XXXXXX hereinafter called "Lessor"
(whether one or more) and STANDARD OIL COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA, a corporation,
hereinafter called "Lessee,"
W I T N E S S E T H
1. Lessor, for and in consideration of the sum of $10 in hand paid, and
of the royalties herein provided and of the covenants and agreements hereinafter
contained, hereby grants, demises, leases and lets unto Lessee, the land
hereinafter described with the sole and exclusive right to Lessee to drill for,
produce, extract, take and remove therefrom water, brine, steam, steam power,
minerals (other than oil), salts, chemicals, gases (other than gas associated
with oil), and other products produced or extracted by Lessee from any thereof.
Each of the foregoing is hereinafter sometimes termed "a lease product" and all
thereof are sometimes termed "the lease products". For the same consideration
Lessee is hereby granted the right to store, utilize, process, convert, and
otherwise use such lease products upon said land and to sell the same or any
part thereof off said land during the term hereof, with the right of entry
thereon at all times for said purposes, and to construct, use, maintain, erect,
repair and replace thereon, and to remove therefrom all roads, pipelines,
ditches and lanes, telephone and telegraph lines, utility installations, power
lines, poles, tanks, evaporation or settling basins, extraction or processing
plants, machinery, equipment, buildings, electric power plants, and equipment
for generation and transmission of steam power, and electric power, and for the
handling, treatment or storage of lease products, and all structures and
facilities relating thereto, which Lessee may desire to erect, construct or
install in carrying on Lessee's business and operations on or from said land and
other lands in the vicinity of said land; and Lessee shall have the further
right to erect, maintain, operate and remove a plant or plants, structures and
facilities, with all necessary appurtenances for the conversion of steam to
electric power, and for the extraction of lease products from steam, brine or
water produced from said land, and other lands in the vicinity of said land,
including all rights necessary or convenient thereto, together with rights of
way for passage over, upon and across and ingress and egress to and from said
land for any or all, of the above mentioned purposes. Lessee shall also have the
right to dispose of waste brine and other waste products in a well or xxxxx
drilled or converted for that purpose on the leased land or on other land in the
vicinity, and the right to inject water, brine, steam and gases in a well or
xxxxx on said land or such other land for the purpose of maintaining or
restoring pressure in the productive zones beneath said land or other land in
the vicinity thereof. The said land included in this lease is situated in the
County of Imperial, State of California, and is described as follows, to wit:
The North Half of Tract Xx. 00, Xxxxxxxx 00 Xxxxx, Xxxxx 00 Xxxx,
X.X.X.&X., containing 160 acres of land more or less.
This lease shall cover all the interest in said land now owned or
hereafter acquired by Lessor, even though greater than the undivided interest
(if any) described above. For the purpose of calculating any payments based on
acreage, Lessee, at Lessee's option, may act as if said land and its constituent
parcels contain the acreage above stated, whether they actually contain more or
less.
2. Subject to the other provisions herein contained, this lease shall
remain in force for a period of ten (10) years from the date hereof, called the
"primary term," and thereafter so long as lease products, or any one or more of
them, is produced from, or Lessee is engaged in drilling, extraction, processing
or reworking operations on said land hereunder or on land pooled or unitized
with said land, as provided in Section 19 hereof, (said land, together with such
pooled or unitized land, being hereinafter sometimes called "the unit area").
3. Lessee shall pay to Lessor, on or before the last day of each
calendar month, the royalties accrued and payable for the preceding calendar
month, and in making such payments Lessee shall furnish to Lessor statements
setting forth the basis for computation of such royalty.
As royalty and rental, Lessee shall pay to Lessor 10% of the value at
the well of all lease products produced, saved and sold. As used herein, the
term "value at the well" shall mean the actual price received by Lessee for the
sale of lease products at the well. If such products are not sold by Lessee at
the well but are sold at a plant or plants on or in the vicinity of said land,
then the value at the well shall be determined by deducting from the actual
price received by Lessee for the sale of such lease products all costs and
expenses incurred by Lessee in transporting, manufacturing, processing and
otherwise handling such lease products prior to the actual sale thereof. If
lease products are not sold by Lessee at the well or at such a plant but are
otherwise used by Lessee in its chemical operation or disposed of for value,
then the value of such lease products at the well shall be determined by
deducting from the price thereof at the nearest point where the same or similar
products are sold in substantial quantities, the cost of transporting,
manufacturing, processing and otherwise handling such lease products prior to
sale thereof. Lessee shall meter, gauge or otherwise determine the volume and
quality of all lease products commingled and such metering or gauging shall
furnish the basis for computing Lessor's royalties hereunder. Lessee may use,
free of royalty, steam, steam power, electric power, and water developed from
said land by Lessee, for all operations hereunder, and Lessee shall not be
required to account to Lessor for, or pay royalty on any lease product or
products reasonably lost or consumed in operations hereunder.
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4. Lessee agrees to commence drilling, extraction or processing
operations on said land or on the unit area within the period of ten (10) years
from the date hereof and to prosecute such operations with reasonable diligence
until lease products or any thereof shall have been found, extracted and
processed in quantities deemed paying quantities by Lessee, or until further
operations would, in the judgment of Lessee, be unprofitable or impracticable,
or Lessee may at any time within said primary term terminate this lease and
surrender said land; provided that, commencing with the 1st day of July, 1972,
if Lessee has not terminated this lease, Lessee shall pay or tender to Lessor
annually, in advance, as rental, the sum of Eight Hundred and no/100 DOLLARS ($
800.00) (each of such annual periods being hereinafter referred to as "rental
period") until royalty is payable on said land or lands, which have been pooled
or unitized therewith, pursuant to paragraph 19 hereof, or this lease terminated
as herein provided; it being understood that in the event of the surrender or
termination of this lease as to any portion or portions of the land covered
thereby, said rental shall be reduced proportionately as provided in paragraph
16 hereof. The consideration expressed in paragraph 1 hereof covers all rental
to the date last above mentioned. If Lessee shall elect not to commence
operations on said land or on the unit area during the primary term, as above
provided, this lease shall terminate.
It is expressly understood and agreed by the parties hereto:
a. That if within 10 years from the date hereof Lessee has not
completed one c more xxxxx or a processing plant on the unit area or on
said land, capable of producing or processing lease products or any thereof
in quantities and quality deemed paying quantities by Lessee, then Lessor
may, at his option, terminate this lease; and
b. That if within 15 years from the date hereof Lessee has not made or
arrange for a sale or pales of lease products or any thereof, produced from
or allocated to said land, then Lessor may, at his option, terminate this
lease.
5. If at any time or times after the primary term or within three (3)
months before expiration of the primary term, all operations and all production
hereunder on said land or on the unit area shall cease for any cause other than
those for which specific provision is made herein, this lease shall not
terminate if Lessee shall commence or resume drilling, processing, extraction or
reworking operations or production within three (3) months after such cessation.
6. Lessee shall be obligated to produce only such quantity or
quantities of lease products as it may be able to market at the well or xxxxx,
plant or plants. It is recognized that the market demand for lease products may
vary from time to time and during such periods as there is no market at the
xxxxx or plant for any lease product or
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products, Lessee's obligation to produce, process and extract such lease product
or products shall be suspended.
Subject to the foregoing and except as herein otherwise provided, it is
agreed that the Lessee shall drill such xxxxx and operate each completed well
with reasonable diligence and in accordance with good operating practice so long
as such xxxxx shall produce lease products in paying quantities while this lease
is in force as to the portion of said land on which such well or xxxxx are
situated; but in conformity with any reasonable conservation program affecting
the drilling of xxxxx or the production of lease products from said land, which
the Lessee may either voluntarily or by order of any authorized governmental
agency adopt, subscribe to or be subject to.
7. The possession by Lessee of said land shall be sole and exclusive
excepting only that Lessor reserves the right to occupy and use or to lease the
surface of said land for agricultural, horticultural or other surface uses,
except those granted to Lessee hereunder, which uses shall be carried on by
Lessor subject to, and with no interference with, the rights or operations of
Lessee hereunder. No well shall be drilled closer than 100 feet to any residence
or barn now on said land without written consent of Lessor. Lessee shall pay for
damages caused by Lessee's operations to houses, barns, growing crops, fences
and irrigation systems. Lessee shall have the right to drill such xxxxx on said
land as Lessee may deem desirable for the purposes hereof and Lessee shall
utilize or use only so much of said land as is necessary or reasonably
convenient for Lessee's operations hereunder and shall interfere as little as
reasonably necessary with the use and occupancy of said land by Lessor. No
default of Lessee hereunder with respect to any well, or portion of this lease,
shall impair Lessee's rights with respect to any other well or portion of this
lease.
8. The rights of Lessor and Lessee hereunder may be assigned in whole
or in part. No present or future division of Lessor's ownership as to different
portions or parcels of said land shall operate to enlarge the obligations or
diminish the rights of Lessee, and Lessee's operations may be conducted without
regard to any such division. If all or any part of this lease is assigned, no
leasehold owner shall be liable for any act or omission of any other leasehold
owner, and failure by one to pay rental shall not affect the rights of
others--rental being apportionable in proportion to acreage.
9. The obligations of Lessee hereunder shall be suspended (but without
impairment of Lessor's rights under (a) and (b) of paragraph 4 hereof) while
Lessee is prevented or hindered from complying therewith in part or in whole, by
strikes, lockouts, labor distrubances, acts of God, unavoidable accidents, laws,
rules, regulations or orders of any Federal, state, municipal or other
governmental agency, acts of war or conditions arising out of or attributable to
war, shortage of necessary material, equipment or labor, or restrictions in, or
limitations upon the use thereof, inability to secure or absence of a
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market for the sale of lease products which can be produced or recovered in
commercial quantities from said land, delays in transportation, and also matters
beyond the control of Lessee, whether similar to the matters herein specifically
enumerated or not. This lease shall remain in full force and effect during any
suspension of Lessee's obligations under any provisions of this paragraph, and
for a reasonable time thereafter, provided that after the removal of the cause
or causes preventing or hindering the performance of such obligation, Lessee,
subject to the other provisions of this Lease, diligently commences or resumes
the performance of such obligation. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary
herein provided, if any of Lessee's obligations hereunder conflict with or
violate the provisions of any reasonable conservation program or plan of orderly
development, whether now or hereafter adopted, to which Lessee may voluntarily
subscribe, or of any conservation program or plan which is now or may hereafter
be prescribed by any order of any governmental agency, Lessee shall not be
obligated to perform such obligation.
10. If Lessee shall fail to pay any installment of royalty or rental
when due and if such default shall continue for a period of 15 days after
receipt by Lessee of written notice thereof from Lessor to Lessee, then at the
option of Lessor, this lease shall terminate as to the portion or portions
thereof as to which Lessee is in default; provided, however, that if there be a
bona fide dispute as to the amount due and all undisputed amounts are paid, said
15-day period shall be extended until 5 days after such dispute is settled by
final court decree, arbitration or agreement.
If lessee shall be in default in the performance of any obligations
under this Lease, other than the payment of rentals or royalties, and if, for a
period of 90 days after written notice is given to Lessee by Lessor of such
default, Lessee shall fail to commence and thereafter diligently and in good
faith prosecute action to remedy such default, Lessor may terminate this Lease.
11. Lessee shall pay all taxes that may be levied against the
improvements, plant, machinery and personal property owned by Lessee and located
upon any part of said land.
12. Lessee shall also pay Lessee's share of any and all taxes assessed
during the term of this lease upon any products of Lessee's operations
hereunder, together with Lessee's share of all severance, production and license
taxes or other taxes or assessments levied or assessed on account of the
production of lease products or any thereof on or from said land, or on or from
such portion of said land as Lessee may be holding under this lease on the date
of such tax lien.
13. Lessor agrees to pay Lessor's share of any and all taxes assessed
upon any products of Lessee's operations hereunder, together with Lessor's share
of all severance, production and license taxes or other taxes or assessments
levied or assessed
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on account of the production of lease products from said land, and to pay all
other taxes assessed against said land, whether the same are assessed to Lessor
or Lessee or otherwise, and Lessee is hereby authorized to pay all such taxes
and assessments on behalf of Lessor and to deduct the amount so paid from any
royalties or moneys due Lessor hereunder. "Lessee's share" and "Lessor's share",
as used above refers to Lessee's and Lessor's respective proportionate parts of
the gross proceeds from the sale of any and all lease products produced, saved
and sold from said land by Lessee or allocated to said land under the terms of
any unit or pooling plan during the preceding calendar year.
14. All royalties, rentals and other payments payable in money
hereunder shall be paid to Lessor by Lessee mailing or delivering a check
therefor to Lessor at 0000 Xxxxxxxx, Xxxxx Xxx, Xxxxxxxxxx or Lessee may, at its
option, pay any or all royalties, rentals and other payments payable in money
hereunder by mailing or delivering a check therefor to
_______________________________ at ______________________ its successors and
assigns, herein designated by Lessor as depositary, hereby granting to said
depositary full power and authority on behalf of Lessor and on behalf of the
heirs, executors, administrators, successors and assigns of Lessor, and each of
them, to collect and receipt for all sums of money due and payable from Lessee
to Lessor hereunder, and to settle all accounts and accounting of rentals,
royalties and other payments payable in money hereunder. No change in the
ownership of the Land or minerals covered by this lease and no assignment of
rentals or royalties shall be binding upon Lessee or the depositary until both
Lessee and the depositary have been furnished with written evidence thereof
satisfactory to them. Said depositary above named shall continue to act as such
until the owners and holders of at least two-thirds of Lessor's estate hereunder
shall in writing designate a different depositary and notify Lessee in writing
at X.X. Xxx 0000, Xxx Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx 00000, of the name and address of
such new depositary. The payment of any and all rentals, royalties and other
payments hereunder by Lessee to the depositary designated herein or to any other
depositary hereafter designated by Lessor, as aforesaid, shall be a full
acquittance and discharge of Lessee of and from any and all liability to Lessor,
and to the heirs, executors, administrators, successors and assigns of Lessor,
and each of them, for any part of such rentals, royalties or other payments, and
Lessee will not be responsible at any time for the disposition or disbursement
by any such depositary of all or any part of any moneys received by it
hereunder.
15. It is agreed that if Lessor owns a less interest in the sole and
exclusive rights herein granted Lessee, than the entire and undivided fee simple
estate therein, then any royalties, rentals and other payments herein provided
for shall be paid Lessor only in the proportion which Lessor's interest bears to
the whole and undivided fee. In the event Lessee's estate hereunder shall fail,
for a cause other than Lessee's default hereunder, in regard to any portion of
said land or any interest therein, such failure shall not affect or
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invalidate Lessee's estate hereunder in regard to the remaining portions of said
lands or the remaining interests therein and this lease shall nevertheless
continue in full force and effect with respect to said remaining portions of
said land or remaining interests therein, and Lessee shall not be accountable to
Lessor for any payment theretofore made with respect to said portion of said
land or such interest in regard to which Lessee's estate hereunder has failed.
If and whenever it shall be necessary so to do in order to protect Lessee's
interest under this lease, Lessee may at its option pay and discharge at any
time any mortgage or other lien now or hereafter attaching to said land or any
part thereof and in such event Lessee shall be subrogated to all of the rights
of the owner or holder of such mortgage or other lien and Lessee may in addition
thereto, at its option, apply to the discharge of any such mortgage or other
lien, or to the reimbursement to Lessee for any amount so paid by it, any
rentals, royalties or other sums accruing or payable hereunder, to the owner of
the lands to which such mortgage or other lien attaches.
16. Lessee may at any time or times surrender this lease as to all or
any portion of said land and be relieved of all obligations thereafter accruing
as to the acreage surrendered, and thereafter the rental shall be reduced in the
same proportion that the acreage covered hereby is reduced. In the event this
lease shall be surrendered under the provisions of this paragraph, or assigned
as hereinabove provided as to any portion or portions of said land, Lessee shall
have such rights of way or easements hereunder, over, upon and across the land
as to which this lease is so surrendered or assigned as shall be necessary or
convenient for Lessee's operations on the land retained by it and other lands in
the vicinity thereof. Upon any surrender or assignment of this lease as to all
or any portion of said land, Lessee shall be relieved of all further obligations
hereunder with respect to the lands so surrendered or assigned. Any such
surrender shall become effective upon delivery to Lessor, or to the depositary
bank herein designated, or the deposit in the United States mail, postage
prepaid, of a duly executed duplicate of an instrument of surrender properly
addressed to Lessor or to such depositary bank. Within a reasonable time
thereafter, Lessee shall record the original of such instrument of surrender.
17. Lessee shall have the right at any time and from time to time
during the continuance hereof and within a reasonable time after the surrender
or any termination of this lease, to remove from said land all equipment,
machinery, installations, and any other property or improvements belonging to or
furnished by Lessee or Lessee's permitees.
18. All labor to be performed and material to be furnished in the
operations of Lessee hereunder shall be at the cost and expense of Lessee, and
Lessor shall not be chargeable with nor liable for any part thereof. Lessee
shall protect said land from liens arising from Lessee's operations thereon.
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19.(a) Lessee is given the sole right and option by written declaration
of pooling at any time or from time to time, within twenty (20) years from the
date hereof, to combine, pool or unitize in whole or in part as to any stratum
or strata all or any part of said lands with other lands not subject to this
lease so as to create one or more reasonably compact operating units for any
operating or producing purpose. Such written declaration of pooling shall
describe the pooled lands and shall become effective when recorded in the Office
of the County Recorder in the county where the land is situated. Lessee shall
give written notice of such pooling to those Lessors whose lands are so pooled.
Lessors agree that with respect to all lease products obtained from any lands
included within any such operating unit, whether or not from lands covered by
this lease, there shall be allocated to and deemed to have been produced from
the lands covered by this lease and included in such operating unit, only that
proportion of the entire production from such operating unit that the amount of
acreage within the lands herein leased and included in such operating unit bears
to the total acreage of all of the land in such operating unit, and royalty
payable under this lease with respect to leased land included in such operating
unit shall be computed only on that portion of such production so allocated to
such leased lands. The entire acreage so pooled or unitized shall be treated as
if it were covered by one lease and the drilling of a well or performance of any
other obligations in any part of such operating unit, whether or not on laud
subject to this lease, shall fulfill Lessee's drilling and other obligations
under this lease to the same extent as if such well were drilled and other
obligations performed on land subject to this lease. No offset obligation shall
accrue under this lease as a result of any well drilled within any such
operating unit. Lessee may, at its sole option, at any time when there is no
production in such operating unit of lease products in quantities deemed paying
by Lessee terminate such operating unit by a written declaration thereof, in the
same manner in which it was created.
(b) Lessee is hereby granted the right at any time or times within the
period hereinafter provided to unitize this lease and the lands covered hereby,
in whole or in part or as to any stratum or strata, with other lands and leases
and to increase or decrease the size of any such unit. Any change in the amount
of Lessor's royalties resulting from unitization of this lease or from any
increase or decrease in the size of any such unit shall not be retroactive. In
the event of any such unitization, this lease, unless sooner terminated by
Lessee, shall continue in effect for so long as any of the lands hereby leased
remain subject to such unit. The drilling and producing operations conducted on
any of the unitized lands shall constitute full compliance with the drilling and
producing obligations of Lessee hereunder and Lessor shall be entitled to the
royalties in this lease provided, on the fractional part only, if any, of the
unit production allocated to this lease in accordance with the provisions of
said unit. The method of allocation of production from lands subject to said
unit shall be set forth therein and may be based upon the surface acreage or the
estimated volumetric content of recoverable lease products, or any
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weighing of either or both thereof, of lands within such unit or within the
estimated productive limits of such unit, or such allocation may be made upon
any other basis approved by State or Federal authorities having jurisdiction
thereof. The provisions of this paragraph authorizing the establishment and
enlargement or contraction of such unit and change of the ratio of participation
thereunder shall not extend beyond the period of twenty (20) years from the date
of this lease; provided, however, that if such unit is established before the
expiration of said twenty-year period, such unit may continue in effect beyond
said twenty-year period. Any such unit may be established, enlarged, or
diminished, and, in the absence of production therefrom, may be dissolved by
Lessee's filing for record an instrument so declaring. A copy of such instrument
shall be delivered to Lessor or to the depositary.
20. Whenever used herein, the expression "drilling operations" shall
mean, for all purposes hereof, any work or actual operations undertaken or
commenced for the purpose of drilling of a well, including without limiting the
generality hereof, the preparation of the ground therefor, the building of roads
and other facilities therefor, the construction of a xxxxxxx and other necessary
structures for the drilling of a well followed by the actual operation of
drilling in the ground. Any such work or operations preliminary to the drilling
in the ground may be undertaken in any order Lessee shall see fit. All such work
and operations shall be prosecuted with reasonable diligence.
21. This agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts with
the same force and effect as if all parties signed the same document.
22. This lease shall be binding upon all who execute it, whether or not
they are named in the granting clause hereof and whether or not all parties
named in the granting clause execute this lease. All the provisions of this
lease shall inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the heirs, executors,
administrators, successors and assigns of Lessor and Lessee.
23. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, it is
understood and agreed that this lease shall not grant any interest in and Lessee
has no rights whatsoever with respect to any portion of the surface and upper
500 feet of the subsurface of said land. All operations in and on a well
directionally drilled from other lands and bottomed within the subsurface zones
herein leased shall be considered operations on said land for all purposes of
this lease.
WITNESS TO THE ABOVE SIGNATURE(s) /s/ Indecipherable
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State of California ) ss
City and County of San Francisco )
On July 8, 1971, before me, Xxxxxx Xxx Xxxxx, a Notary Public in and
for said City and County and State, residing therein, duly commissioned and
sworn, personally appeared A. T. XXXXX and X. X. XXXXXX known to me to be
CONTRACT AGENT and ASSISTANT SECRETARY, respectively, of STANDARD OIL COMPANY OF
CALIFORNIA the Corporation described in and that executed the within instrument,
and also known to me to be the persons who executed it on behalf of the said
Corporation therein named, and they acknowledged to me that such Corporation
executed the same.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my Official
Seal, at my office in the City and County and State aforesaid the day and year
in this certificate above written.
/s/ Indecipherable 19
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Notary Public in and for said City and
County of San Francisco, State of California
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AMENDMENT OF LEASE AGREEMENT
THIS AGREEMENT, made this 1st day of July, 1981 between the party or
parties whose names are subscribed hereto under the designation of "Lessor",
hereinafter called "Lessor" (whether one or more), and CHEVRON U.S.A. INC.,
successor in interest to Standard Oil Company of California, a corporation,
hereinafter called "Lessee",
W I T N E S S E T H:
THAT REFERENCE IS HEREBY HAD to that certain Lease Agreement, dated
July 1, 1971 (the short form of which is of record in the Office of the County
Recorder of Imperial County, California, in Book 1315, at Page 107, et seq., of
Official Records), whereby Lessor and/or Lessor's predecessor in interest did
grant, let and lease unto Lessee for the purposes therein described in such
lease; such lease being hereinafter referred to as "said lease";
AND, WHEREAS, Lessor and Lessee have agreed to amend said lease in the
particulars hereinafter set forth:
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the sum of ONE DOLLAR ($1.00) and
other valuable consideration paid to Lessor by Lessee, receipt of which is
hereby acknowledged, Lessor and Lessee agree as follows:
1. That part of the first sentence of Section 2 of said lease which now
reads as follows:
"...., this lease shall remain in force for a period of ten (10) years
from the date hereof, called the 'primary term'...."
shall be and hereby is amended to read as follows:
"...., this lease shall remain in force for a period of fifteen (15)
years from the date hereof, called the 'primary term'...."
2. That part of the first sentence of Section 4 of said lease which now
reads as follows:
"4. Lessee agrees to commence drilling, extraction or processing
operations on said land or on the unit area within the period of ten (10)
years from the date hereof...."
shall be and hereby is amended to read as follows:
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"4. Lessee agrees to commence drilling, extraction or processing
operations on said land or on the unit area within the period of fifteen
(15) years from the date hereof...."
3. Effective with the rental period that begins in 1982, that part of
the first sentence of Section 4 of said lease which now reads as follows:
"...., the sum of Eight Hundred and no/l00 ($800.00)...."
shall be and hereby is amended to read as follows:
"...., the sum of Four Thousand and no/l00 ($4,000.00)...."
4. That part of Section 4a. of said lease which now reads as follows:
"a. That if within 10 years...."
shall be and hereby is amended to read as follows:
"a. That if within 15 years...."
5. That part of Section 4b. of said lease which now reads as follows:
"b. That if within 15 years...."
shall be and hereby is amended to read as follows:
"b. That it within 20 years...."
6. There is added to said lease the following Section 24:
"24. Subject to Lessor's rights under Section 4b. hereof and
notwithstanding anything else to the contrary contained herein, if Lessee
completes a well or xxxxx or a processing plant on said land or on the unit area
capable of producing or processing lease products in quantities and quality
deemed paying quantities by Lessee, Lessee may continue to pay or tender to
Lessor, annually in advance of each lease anniversary date, rental until Lessee
has made a sale of lease products produced from or allocated to said land. So
long as such annual rental payments are paid or tendered, this lease shall
remain in force and effect even though extended thereby beyond the primary term,
and all payments so paid or tendered after the expiration of said primary term
shall be deemed advance royalties, and so long as same are paid, each well or
xxxxx shall be deemed to be actually producing lease products in paying
quantities under the terms hereof."
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7. To Implement the foregoing, Lessor does hereby grant, demise, lease
and let unto Lessee all those certain lands particularly described in said lease
for the term and purposes and subject to all of the other provisions of said
lease as hereby amended. Lessor agrees that said lease as hereby amended is in
good standing and in full force and effect. Lessor acknowledges receipt of
rental in full under said lease to July 1, 1982.
8. This agreement shall bind and inure to the benefit of the respective
heirs, executors, administrators, successors, and assigns of the parties hereto.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, this agreement has been executed as of the day and
year first herein written.
LESSEE LESSOR
CHEVRON U.S.A. INC.
By /s/ X. X. Xxxxxx /s/ XXXXX X. XXXXXX
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/s/ XXXXX X. XXXXXX
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