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Tips on Getting a Drilling Permit in the Niobrara
Background:
This land group is active in the Niobrara play in both the Western Slope and the Front Range. Land projects performed include:
- Lease Check
- Lease Acquisition & Prospect Management
- Abstracting
- Title Curative
- Well Permitting
- SUAs
- Conservation Easements
- Land Coordination of Drilling Activities
- Prospect Acquisition
- Prospect Divestment
- Farm-outs (F/O)
- Farm-ins (F/I)
- Voluntary Unitization & Spacing Units
- Federal Units
- Force Pooling
- Area of Mutual Interest (AMI)
- Participation Agreement (PA)
- Joint Operating Agreement (JOA)
- Lease Acquisition Agreement
- Purchase & Sale Agreement (PSA) plus Exhibits
- Assignments
- Correction Assignments
- Cross Assignments
- Stipulation of Interests
- Release to Build Location & Release to Drill
Colorado State Board of Land Commissioners:
- Monthly Board Meetings
- Competitive Lease Auction
- State Leasehold Research and State Lease Check
- Research of “Trust Lands” Status and Special Restrictions on Leasing
- Maintenance of Held-by-Production (HBP) Status of State Leases
- Lease Extensions, Payment of Annual Rentals, Payment of Shut-In Royalty and Minimum Royalty
- Obtaining Surface Access Over and/or to State Lands and State Leasehold and Application for Temporary or Term Surface Access Agreements
- Surface Restoration Bond to the State Land Board
- Operations Bond to the State Land Board
- Research Base Title at County Courthouses under State Lands and Leasehold
- Research of State Mineral Title at the BLM for Patents and Mineral Reservations or Mineral Transfers to the State Land Board