[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 43, Volume 2]

[Revised as of October 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 43CFR3186.4]



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                    TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS: INTERIOR

 

    CHAPTER II--BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

 

PART 3180_ONSHORE OIL AND GAS UNIT AGREEMENTS: UNPROVEN AREAS

--Table of Contents

 

                        Subpart 3186_Model Forms

 

Sec.  3186.4  Model for change in unit operator by assignment.



    Change in Unit Operator ------ Unit Area, County of ------------, 

State of --------------, No. --. This indenture, dated as of the ------

------ day of --------------, 19----, by and between ------------------

-- hereinafter designated as ``First Party,'' and ------------------ 

hereinafter designated as ``Second Party.''

    Witnesseth: Whereas under the provisions of the Act of February 25, 

1920, 41 Stat. 437 30 U.S.C. secs. 181, et seq., as amended by the Act 

of August 8, 1946, 60 Stat. 950, the Department of the Interior, on the 

------------ day of --------------, 19----, approved a unit agreement 

for the ------ Unit Area, wherein the First Party is designated as Unit 

Operator; and

    Whereas the First Party desires to transfer, assign, release, and 

quitclaim, and the Second Party desires to assume all the rights, duties 

and obligations of Unit Operator under the unit agreement; and

    Whereas for sufficient and valuable consideration, the receipt 

whereof is hereby acknowledged, the First Party has transferred, 

conveyed, and assigned all his/its rights under certain operating 

agreements involving lands within the area set forth in said unit 

agreement unto the Second Party;

    Now, therefore, in consideration of the premises hereinbefore set 

forth, the First Party does hereby transfer, assign, release, and 

quitclaim unto Second Party all of First Party's rights, duties, and 

obligations as Unit Operator under said unit agreement; and

    Second Party hereby accepts this assignment and hereby covenants and 

agrees to fulfill the duties and assume the obligations of Unit Operator 

under and pursuant to all the terms of said unit agreement to the full 

extent set forth in this assignment, effective upon approval of this 

indenture by the (Name and Title of authorized officer, BLM); said unit 

agreement being hereby incorporated herein by reference and made a part 

hereof as fully and effectively as though said unit agreement were 

expressly set forth in this instrument.

    In witness whereof, the parties hereto have executed this instrument 

as of the date hereinabove set forth.

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 (Witnesses)

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 (Witnesses)

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 (First Party)

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 (Second Party)

    I hereby approve the foregoing indenture designating ------ as Unit 

Operator under the unit agreement for the ------ Unit Area, this ------

------ day of ------------------, 19----.

Authorized officer of the Bureau of Land Management