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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