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Oil and gas lease is an agreement between a mineral owner (lessor) and a company (lessee) in which the owner grants the company the right to explore, drill and produce oil, gas, and other minerals below the surface of the earth.
What is a paid-up lease? At one time, the oil and gas company paid a delay rental payment to the landowner during the initial or primary term of the lease. The delay rental payment was usually paid on a yearly basis.
An oil lease is essentially an agreement between parties to allow a Lessee (the oil and gas company and their production crew) to have access to the property and minerals (oil and gas) on the property of the Lessor. The lease agreement is a legal contract of terms.It establishes the primary term of the lease.
A lease may provide for the payment of "delay rental" during the primary term.If a lease is a "paid-up" lease, then the lease will remain in effect during the entire primary term with no further payments to the Lessor unless and until actual production of oil or gas is established.
¹ The term of an oil and gas lease is divided into two parts, a primary term and a secondary term. The primary term is usually for a set amount of years, 1, 3, 5, 7 or 10 years.
The phrase top lease is used in the oil and gas business to refer to the circumstance in which a lease is executed covering land upon which a current lease already exists. As commonly spoken, the phrase is often used as a verb, as in we're top leasing in that area.